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Popular Electronics Including Electronics World, January 1972, Volume 1 Number 1. Ziff Davis Publishing Company. Publisher: Lawrence Sporn, Editor Director: Wm. A. Stocklin, Editor: Milton S Snitzer, Technical Editor: Leslie Solomon

Popular Electronics was spun off from Radio & Television News in October 1954. Radio & Television News became Electronics World in 1959 and merged into its offspring in January 1972. (The volume number was restarted at 1.) This magazine was renamed Computers & Electronics in November 1982 and was published until April 1985.

Gernsback Publications acquired the Popular Electronics title and used it on their Hands-On Electronics magazine starting in November 1988.

The cover on previous issues of Popular Electronics would have a picture of the lead story, often a project. In 1972 and 1973 the covers were more like a large print table of contents.

This 6.625 by 9.125 inch magazine has 126 pages.

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• Radio News started in 1919 and became Electronics World in 1959. This cover illustrated the end of Radio News.
• Popular Electronics was spun out of Radio & Television News (later Electronics World). This cover shows the parent magazine, Electronics World, merging into the offspring, Popular Electronics.
• This was the first issue of the merged magazines.
• The cover style under Editor Milton Snitzer was an unpopular large print table of contents. The previous editions had a large photo of the feature story. In 1974 the magazine returned to large images on the cover.
• The resolution is minimum necessary to read the significant text on the cover.

• Popular Electronics was spun out of Radio & Television News (later Electronics World). This cover shows the parent magazine, Electronics World, merging into the offspring, Popular Electronics.
• This was the first issue of the merged magazines.
• The cover shows the style change from a large photo of the feature project to a large print table of contents.
• The magazine focused on equipment reviews to attract the advertising of audio and radio companies..
• The resolution is minimum necessary to read the significant text on the cover.

The copyrights for Popular Electronics are held by Poptronix Inc.

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