Mudcat members of different generations have made posts on past threads,
regarding "Amazing" magazine in their childhood/youth.

Correct me if I'm wrong,
but you all were referring to "Amazing Stories," yes?

Founded and published in the United States in the 1920's,
the founder was a highly literate European who noted
that Europe was already publishing periodicals with
science fiction in them, while the US had yet to catch up.

So, that was then.
Now, if there is a paper-and-ink "Amazing Stories" out there,
I hope someone will post and say so, because
I'm not aware of it, now, in 2018.

However, "Amazing Stories," in one form or another,
refuses to give up the ghost entirely.

Steven Spielberg, no less, grew up listening to
his father reading from "Amazing Stories" to him.
In the 1980's, Spielberg made a rather noteworthy deal with NBC television.
Under this contract, Spielberg was in charge of "Amazing Stories,"
a weekly network-television show with a different episode every week.
The contract specified something like 44 episodes UPFRONT,
so that whether or not the show was widely viewed and generating numbers, and income,
the show would not be taken off the air early.

At the same time, the magazine "Amazing Stories" was in print and for sale.
Of course a license had to be officially agreed to.
"The Sci-Fi Encyclopedia" article reports
that when the magazine received the money from this agreement,
the publishers put the money into the magazine's existing accounts
and did not use the money to try anything new.
In any case, the "Amazing" magazine was past its prime mostly,
and a losing battle was being waged
between editors, with writers, who wanted quality,
and the publishers who wanted success.

Spielberg served out his NBC contract, then moved on.
"Amazing Stories" was revived, as a television show,
in more recent years. Was it NBC that had that last version?
Also a brief engagement.

Today, away from network television,
Apple is preparing an online series program.
And the showrunners contracted for this latest iteration,
it has been announced in TV-Line,
are Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz,
who have spent years at the ABC television network
writing and/or in charge of "Lost" and "Once Upon A Time."