 It lasted for four issues, succumbing in 1953 to competition from the growing market for paperback science fiction.Reprinted stories included "Twice in Time", by Manly Wade Wellman, and "The Brain-Stealers of Mars", by John W. Campbell.The first science fiction (sf) magazine, "Amazing Stories", was launched in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback at the height of the pulp magazine era.