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With this magazine, Gernsback created the [[Science Fiction League]], the seminal [[sf]] [[club]] that led to the emergence of [[fandom]]. A letter in its August 1939 issue originated the infamous [[catchphrase]] “[[Goshwowoboyoboy]],” quoted by Time magazine. | With this magazine, Gernsback created the [[Science Fiction League]], the seminal [[sf]] [[club]] that led to the emergence of [[fandom]]. A letter in its August 1939 issue originated the infamous [[catchphrase]] “[[Goshwowoboyoboy]],” quoted by Time magazine. | ||
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Thrilling Wonder Stories (often abbreviated TWS), founded by Hugo Gernsback, was one of the earliest science fiction magazines. Its lettercolumn was “The Reader Speaks.”
After losing control of Amazing Stories, Gernsback launched Air Wonder Stories and Science Wonder Stories in 1929 and merged the two magazines into Wonder Stories in 1930. He sold the prozine to another pulp house in 1936, and then it became Thrilling Wonder Stories, which lasted until 1955.
With this magazine, Gernsback created the Science Fiction League, the seminal sf club that led to the emergence of fandom. A letter in its August 1939 issue originated the infamous catchphrase “Goshwowoboyoboy,” quoted by Time magazine.
[File:WessoAd.jpeg|thumb|upright=2|center|Ad for TWS, Startling Stories and Captain Future featuring Hans Wesso art from the Chicon program book, 1940. ]]
| Publication | 1936—1955 |
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