April 25, 1915 - May 7, 1978
Weisinger was introduced to sf at age 13 through a borrowed copy of an early issue of Amazing Stories (which included both The Skylark of Space and Buck Rogers). By 1930, he was active in one of the earliest SF clubs and The Planet, one of the first fanzines. In 1931, he hosted a meeting of early SF fan club The Scienceers, which was attended by the young Julius Schwartz, who became a good friend. A year later, Weisinger, Julius Schwartz, Allen Glasser and Forrest J. Ackerman founded a fanzine The Time Traveller, which they styled "Science Fiction's Only Fan Magazine".
Weisinger and Julius Schwartz approached T. O'Connor Sloane, the editor of Amazing Stories sold his first story, and a year suggested to Schwartz that they become agents and they formed the Solar Sales Service, an agency specializing in the SF, and fantasy. Edmond Hamilton and Otto Binderwere their first clients and they eventually represented many others including John Russell Fearn, Alfred Bester, Stanley Weinbaum, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury.
Weisinger soon left the agency and took a job with the Standard Magazine chain which acquired Hugo Gernsback's defunct Wonder Stories and added it to Standard series of "Thrilling" publications. Weisinger became the editor of Thrilling Wonder Stories, and was soon editing a number of other pulps, including Startling Stories and Captain Future, and "was in charge of no fewer than 40 titles" by 1940.
