Flying Saucers from Other Worlds

Flying Saucers has often been listed as a continuation of Other Worlds and many collectors have felt obliged to collect it as an associational title. Since the publisher, Ray Palmer, apparently went out of his way to obscure the situation as much as possible, a detailed examination of this title's genesis and evolution would seem worthwhile. §§Palmer introduced a non-fiction magazine, Flying Saucers, and simultaneously modified the title of his fiction magazine, Other Worlds, in such a way that a casual observer might think that all the issues belonged to one magazine. The magazines were published in alternation, the fiction issues being titled Flying Saucers from OTHER WORLDS and the non-fiction issues titled FLYING SAUCERS from Other Worlds. To aid in this deception, during the brief period that the two magazines co-existed most issues were unnumbered. §§The fiction magazine ceased after only two issues under the new title; all issues after that belong to the non-fiction magazine. Numbering was resumed following the last fiction issue, at first as if all the issues had been the same magazine. But a secondary numbering system was soon introduced which, if backtracked to #1, clearly excluded the fiction issues. This new numbering became the primary numbering after a few issues and the older numbering was finally dropped in 1960.Flying Saucers thus established its beginning point retroactively and freed itself from the old fiction magazine. Other Worlds was dropped from the title after issue #29 (May 1958). §§Flying Saucers later history is not known completely to us, but is believed to have lasted at least until Palmer's death in 1977. We have listed all issues of both magazines through the last all fiction issue. For the non-fiction magazine we have indexed only the two stories that appeared in the first issue, whose existence has not previously been documented.

Publishers:

• Palmer Publications, Inc.; Evanston, IL, Jun '57 - Oct '57

FLYING SAUCERS from Other Worlds

• 1957: Jun

Flying Saucers from OTHER WORLDS

• 1957: Jul

FLYING SAUCERS from Other Worlds

• 1957: Aug

Flying Saucers from OTHER WORLDS

• 1957: Oct