The latter period was its heyday it won Hugos for Best Magazine in 1966, 19. For most of its life it was bimonthly, but March 1954 to June 1955, and again July 1964 to May 1970, it was monthly. James Baen became editor with the March/April issue in 1974, shortly before the magazine folded. Galaxy and If were both sold in 1969 to the Universal Publishing and Distributing Co, and Ejler Jakobsson took over as editor of both in July 1969. From July 1963 the publisher operated as Galaxy Publishing Corporation. Frederik Pohl assumed the editorship November 1961. There were no issues February to July 1959 because the title was sold during that year to Digest Productions and became a companion to Galaxy Science Fiction under Galaxy's editor H L Gold. Apart from the period May 1953 to March 1954 when Larry Shaw served as editor, Quinn remained editor until Damon Knight took over from October 1958 to February 1959. Sales were poor and Quinn sacked Fairman and took over the editorial chair himself, in November 1952. with Paul W Fairman as editor, but Fairman, who had been writing profusely for the Ziff-Davis Amazing Stories and Fantastic Adventures developed If as a copy of those magazines. It was founded by James L Quinn's Quinn Publishing Co. 175 issues March 1952 to November/December 1974.
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