A fanzine devoted to Sword and Sorcery published by George Scithers and editing by Scithers. Liz Wilson and Dan Adkins and many others. (Amra liked to print long lists of editors, some with with fanciful titles, or to simply credit the "Editorial Horde", so it's not clear just who the editors — other than George Scithers — were.)
The Scithers Amra ran from Vol II, No. 1 to Vol II, No. 71, from 1959 to 1982 (there was a previous version of Amra edited by George Heap) and was the journal of the Hyborian Legion. Under Scithers Amra won Best Fanzine Hugos in 1964 and 1967.
Amra was printed by offset lithography, with high-quality artwork, including by Roy G. Krenkel, Gray Morrow, and Jim Cawthorn. The written content was impressive too, the contributors including L. Sprague de Camp above all others, Poul Anderson, Leigh Brackett, John Boardman, Jerry Pournelle, Fritz Leiber, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Much of Amra's content was collected in books from Mirage Press: The Conan Reader, The Conan Swordbook, and The Conan Grimoire, which also include much Krenkel art.
According to Scithers, "Amra is about various heroic heroes, mostly of swordplay-&-sorcery stories set in fantasy worlds". Subjects and characters of interest included Robert E. Howard's Conan, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp's Harold Shea, Michael Moorcock's Elric, and Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter. (L. Sprague de Camp was a major contributor.)
Amra published articles on Conan and related Sword and Sorcery series like Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, criticism, discussions of medieval and ancient history, weoponry, and technology (by writers such as de Camp, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, Jerry Pournelle, and Leigh Brackett), book reviews (including by Harry Harrison, Buck Coulson, L. Sprague de Camp, and Fritz Leiber), poetry (translations from the Old Norse by Poul Anderson and limericks (some of them quite good) by many hands) and poetry by Roger Zelazny and Lin Carter. It also published fiction, including a number of pieces by Ray Garcia-Capella and things like "Six Scenes in Search of an Illustration", where six writers (l. Sprague de Camp, Dick Eney, Fritz Leiber, Katherine MacLean, Michael Moorcock, and John Pocsik) wrote story vignettes around a centerpiece foldout illustration by Roy Krenkel.
