This is a little resource that I hope you collectors out there will find useful.
Compiled from the information in the back of the five volumes of collected short stories and from the invaluable Dick bibliography 'Metaphysical Conjurer' by Phil Stephensen-Payne and Gordon Benson, Jr. here is a checklist of all the pulps and magazines that contain the first appearance of a Dick story. This list is not meant to be definitively informative, in fact I've deliberately left most of the information out. The idea is that if you are going to a book fair or out rummaging around you can print this out and stick it in your back pocket to make the experience less painful and more fruitful.
I updated this list in April 1998 to include novel serialisations, first appearances in anthologies, more mainstream publications and UK edition variations. I hope that being more comprehensive this list will be more useful.
Any comments, corrections or additions very welcome. My e-mail address is at the bottom of the page.
Amazing
Aug-Sept 1953, Dec 1953-Jan 1954, May 1954, July 1954,
Oct 1963, Nov 1963, Dec 1963, July 1964, Aug 1966, Nov 1969, Jan 1970
Amazing UK edition variations
Vol 1. #1 Dec 1953, Vol 1. #3 Apr 1954,
Vol. 1. #5 Aug 1954, Vol. 1. #6 Oct 1954
Astounding
June 1953
Astounding UK edition variations
Nov 1953
Beyond Fantasy Fiction
Sept 1953, Nov 1954
Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy
Sept 1953, July 1954
Escapade 1964 (as by Jack Dowland)
Famous Science Fiction
Summer 1968
Fantastic
Feb 1964, Dec 1964
Fantastic Story Magazine
July 1953
Fantastic Universe
Oct/Nov 1953, Jan 1954, May 1954, June/July 1954,
Oct 1954,
July 1955, Jan 1956
Fantasy Fiction
June 1953, Aug 1953
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Nov 1952, Feb 1953, June 1953, July 1953, Jan
1954, Dec 1954,
Jan 1959, July 1964, April 1966, Oct 1969,
Oct 1974, Oct 1981
Fantasy & Science Fiction UK edition variations
Vol. 1. #4 Jan 1954, Vol. 3 #1 June 1954
Future
June 1954, Oct 1954
Galactic Outpost
Spring 1954
Galaxy
Jan 1953, June 1953, Sept 1954, Oct 1954,
Dec
1959, Dec 1963, Feb 1964, Oct 1964, Feb 1967, Feb 1969
Galaxy UK edition variations
Vol. 3 #5 June 1953, Vol. 3. #8 Oct 1953,
#35 Feb 1956, #77 Jan 1960, Sept 1967, Oct 1967
If
Sept 1952, Sept 1953, April 1954, May 1954, Aug
1954, Nov 1954,
March 1955, April 1955, Aug
1955, Nov 1955,
Dec 1958, July 1959, Sept 1959,
Jan 1964
If UK edition variations
(all Vol. 1)
#4 Feb 1954, #9 July 1954, #10 Aug 1954, #13 Nov 1954
Interzone
Summer 1984
Imagination
Jan 1953, Feb 1953, June 1953, July 1953, Oct
1953, Dec 1953,
July 1954, Dec 1954, June 1955,
July 1955, Feb 1956
Imaginative Tales
Nov 1955
New Worlds
#89 Dec 1959, #90 Jan 1960, #91 Feb 1960
Omni
Oct 1980
Orbit Science Fiction
No. 2 1953, Sept-Oct 1954, Nov-Dec 1954
Planet Stories
July 1952, Sept 1952, May 1953, Jan 1954, May
1954
Playboy Dec 1980
Rolling Stone College Papers
#1 Fall 1979
Satellite Science Fiction
Oct 1956, Dec 1956
Science Fiction Adventures
Dec 1953
Science Fiction Quarterly
May 1953, Feb 1957
Science Fiction Quarterly UK edition variations
#6 May 1954
Science Fiction Stories
No. 1, 1953, No. 2, 1954, July 1955, Jan 1957
Space Science Fiction
May 1953, September 1953
Space Science Fiction UK edition variations
July 1953
Startling Stories
Jan 1954, Spring 1955, Winter 1955
Startling Stories UK edition variations
#17 March 1954
Thrilling Wonder Stories
Summer 1954, Winter 1954
Worlds of Tomorrow
Aug 1963, Oct 1963, Dec 1963, Jun 1964, Aug 1964,
Jan 1965, Nov 1965, Jan 1966, May 1966
Yuba City High Times
20th Feb 1981
First appearances in book length anthologies:
Time to Come, Farrar, 1954
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, Ballantine, 1955
Dangerous Visions, Doubleday, 1967
Final Stage, Penguin, 1975
Stellar #5, Del Rey, 1980
New Worlds 2, Gollancz, 1992
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