Wonder Stories
In 1929, he lost ownership of his first magazines after a bankruptcy lawsuit. There is some debate about whether this process was genuine, manipulation by publisher Bernarr Macfadden, or a Gernsback scheme to begin another company. After losing control of "Amazing Stories", Gernsback founded two new science fiction magazines, "Science Wonder Stories" and "Air Wonder Stories". A year later, due to Depression-era financial troubles, the two were merged into "Wonder Stories", which Gernsback continued to publish until 1936, when it was sold to Thrilling Publications and renamed "Thrilling Wonder Stories". Gernsback returned in 1952–53 with "Science-Fiction Plus".