22 periodical issues. Includes: Binder, Otto ed. Space World, News-Magazine of Astro-Science. Vol. 1, Nos.1-12, May to Nov. 1960; Jan. to Nov. 1961, as issued. Complete run of the first volume, Binder series. Space World. Vol. 2, Nos. 1, 3 and 6, Dec. 1961 to May 1962. 3 of the final issues of the Binder series. Caidin, Martin, ed. Space Age / The Fact Reporter for the Worlds of Science and Space. Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2, November 1958 and February 1959. Speed Age / Man’s Conquest of Time and Space. Aug.-Oct. and Dec. 1959 (with Auto Racing Annual, 1960); and Space, Incorporating Speed Age, April 1960 (the final issue). The first American attempts at publishing a Time magazine-type Space magazine for the general reader. Published in quick response to Russia's Sputnik success these were not successful in attracting mass readership. “Space Age”, which appeared a year after Sputnik, was edited by the prolific popular Space writer, Martin Caidin and published by James L. Quinn who had previously founded and published the science fiction magazine “If” in the early 1950s. It lasted only a few issues. The auto racing specialty magazine “Speed Age” attempted to link race cars and rockets. After retaining the original “Speed Age” title for 4 issues, it morphed into a single issue of “Space” that threw together articles about auto racing and Russian rocketry and almost immediately folded. Appearing on its heels in May 1960 was the most notable “Space World”, edited by Otto Oscar Binder, a science fiction author, but best known for producing hundreds of super-hero Marvel comic books dating from World War II. The comic book profits he invested in “Space World” were lost as “the public stayed away from it in droves”, each of the 16 or 18 irregularly appearing “Binder issues” (the exact number is uncertain) losing money, until Binder and his partners were forced to declare bankruptcy and sell the magazine to Ray Palmer. Editor of the successful science fiction magazines “Amazing Stories” and “Fate”, Palmer was able to successfully continue “Space World” - retaining Binder’s pop format - for the next 25 years. The original Binder issues of “Space World” have become scarce classics. The first issue offered articles by Willy Ley, Wernher Von Braun, Isaac Asimov and John Pierce, father of communications satellites and science fiction author, Ray Bradbury, Kraft Ehricke, NASA Administrator Keith Glennan, and General Medaris.
22 periodical issues. Includes: Binder, Otto ed. Space World, News-Magazine of Astro-Science. Vol. 1, Nos.1-12, May to Nov. 1960; Jan. to Nov. 1961, as issued. Complete run of the first volume, Binder series. Space World. Vol. 2, Nos. 1, 3 and 6, Dec. 1961 to May 1962. 3 of the final issues of the Binder series. Caidin, Martin, ed. Space Age / The Fact Reporter for the Worlds of Science and Space. Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2, November 1958 and February 1959. Speed Age / Man’s Conquest of Time and Space. Aug.-Oct. and Dec. 1959 (with Auto Racing Annual, 1960); and Space, Incorporating Speed Age, April 1960 (the final issue). The first American attempts at publishing a Time magazine-type Space magazine for the general reader. Published in quick response to Russia's Sputnik success these were not successful in attracting mass readership. “Space Age”, which appeared a year after Sputnik, was edited by the prolific popular Space writer, Martin Caidin and published by James L. Quinn who had previously founded and published the science fiction magazine “If” in the early 1950s. It lasted only a few issues. The auto racing specialty magazine “Speed Age” attempted to link race cars and rockets. After retaining the original “Speed Age” title for 4 issues, it morphed into a single issue of “Space” that threw together articles about auto racing and Russian rocketry and almost immediately folded. Appearing on its heels in May 1960 was the most notable “Space World”, edited by Otto Oscar Binder, a science fiction author, but best known for producing hundreds of super-hero Marvel comic books dating from World War II. The comic book profits he invested in “Space World” were lost as “the public stayed away from it in droves”, each of the 16 or 18 irregularly appearing “Binder issues” (the exact number is uncertain) losing money, until Binder and his partners were forced to declare bankruptcy and sell the magazine to Ray Palmer. Editor of the successful science fiction magazines “Amazing Stories” and “Fate”, Palmer was able to successfully continue “Space World” - retaining Binder’s pop format - for the next 25 years. The original Binder issues of “Space World” have become scarce classics. The first issue offered articles by Willy Ley, Wernher Von Braun, Isaac Asimov and John Pierce, father of communications satellites and science fiction author, Ray Bradbury, Kraft Ehricke, NASA Administrator Keith Glennan, and General Medaris.
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