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DescriptionAmazing Stories 1927 08.jpg
English: The August 1927 cover of Amazing Stories depicts H. G. Wells' "War of the Worlds". Hugo Gernsback was the Publisher and Editor of Amazing Stories and Frank R. Paul was the illustrator. Paul began working for Gernsback in 1914 and his Amazing Stories covers established the style for Science Fiction magazines.
Works copyrighted before 1964 had to have the copyright renewed sometime in the 28th year. If the copyright was not renewed the work is in the public domain. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/
The search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1953, 1954 and 1955 show no renewal entries for Amazing Stories. Experimenter Publishing Company owned Amazing Stories in 1927 and Ziff-Davis Publishing owned it from 1938 to 1965. Based on searches of the copyright records, Ziff-Davis Publishing did not make it a practice to renew magazine copyrights.
Frank R. Paul was a staff illustrator for the Experimenter Publishing Company and worked under the editorial control of Hugo Gernsback. This was a work for hire.
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