appeared three times a year and lasted until the spring of 1954. In 1953 Fiction House launched a reprint magazine, Tops in Science Fiction, selecting the contents from the backfile of stories that had appeared in Planet. It only lasted for two issues, the second of which received almost no distribution. A derivative anthology, The Best of Planet Stories #1, appeared in 1975 from Ballantine Books, edited by Leigh Brackett, containing seven stories reprinted from between 1942 and 1952. It was intended to be the first of a series, but no further volumes appeared. See also History of science fiction Notes References Sources External links Issues of Planet Stories via the Internet Archive Pulp magazines Science fiction magazines established in the 1930s Defunct science fiction magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1939 Magazines disestablished in 1955 1939 establishments in the United States 1955 disestablishments in the United States