Editing Galaxy Science Fiction (section)

===Other bibliographic details===
The following table shows which issues appeared from which publisher.<ref name=TA_290-309/><ref name=issues/>

{|class="wikitable"
! Dates !! Publisher
|-
|October 1950&nbsp;– September 1951 || World Editions, Inc., New York
|-
|October 1951&nbsp;– May 1969 || Galaxy Publishing Corp., New York
|-
|July 1969&nbsp;– March 1977 || UPD Corp., New York
|-
|May 1977&nbsp;– September–October 1979 || UPD, Scarsdale, New York
|-
|Summer 1980 || Avenue Victor Hugo
|-
|January 1994 – April 1995 || Institute for the Development of the Harmonious Being, Inc.
|-
|August 2024 – || Starship Sloane Publishing Company, Inc.
|}

The title changed several times, and was frequently inconsistently given between the cover, spine, [[Indicia (publishing)|indicia]], and [[Nameplate (publishing)|masthead]].<ref name=TA_290-309/>
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! Start month
! End month
! Cover
! Spine
! Indicia
! Masthead
! Number of issues
|-
|Oct–50
|Aug–58
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| 94
|-
|Sep–58
|Oct–62
| bgcolor="DDD9C3" | Galaxy Magazine
| bgcolor="DDD9C3" | Galaxy Magazine
| rowspan="8" bgcolor="DDD9C3" | Galaxy Magazine
| rowspan="4" bgcolor="DDD9C3" | Galaxy Magazine
| 27
|-
|Dec–62
|Dec–65
|bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| rowspan="5" bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| 19
|-
|Feb–66
|Sep–68
|bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| 18
|-
|Oct–68
|Oct–69
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="E5E0EC" | Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine
| 12
|-
|Nov–69
|Jan–72
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="E5E0EC" | Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine
| 20
|-
|Mar–72
|Mar–72
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="DDD9C3" | Galaxy Magazine
| 1
|-
|May/Jun–72
|Jan–73
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| 5
|-
|Mar/Apr–73
|Mar/Apr–73
| rowspan="5" bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="E5E0EC" | Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine
| 1
|-
|May/Jun–73
|Nov–73
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| 5
|-
|Dec–73
|Dec–73
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| rowspan="3" bgcolor="E5E0EC" | Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine
| 1
|-
|Jan–74
|Jan–75
| rowspan="2" bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| 13
|-
|Feb–75
|Jan–76
| rowspan="4" bgcolor="FCD5B4" | Galaxy Incorporating Worlds of If
| 9
|-
|Feb–76
|Oct–77
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| 16
|-
|Nov–77
|Dec-77/Jan–78
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| 2
|-
|Feb–78
|Oct–79
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| 10
|-
|Summer–80
|Summer–80
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| 1
|-
|Jan/Feb–94
|Mar/Apr–95
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| 8
|-
|Aug–2024
|
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| bgcolor="FDE9D9" | Galaxy
| bgcolor="DBEEF3" | Galaxy Science Fiction
| 1
|}

''Galaxy'' remained a digest-sized magazine from the beginning until 1979; the last issue was published in pulp format, as were the semi-professional issues produced by E. J. Gold.  The page count began at 160; it dropped to 144 in January 1955, but went up to 192 in February 1959.  In July 1969 the count went back down to 160; it returned to 192 pages with the August–September 1970 issue and stayed there till May–June 1971, when it dropped to 176.  From June 1974 to June–July 1979 it was back at 160 pages, and then went to 128 pages for the final digest issue, September–October 1979.  The single 1980 issue was 72 pages long.<ref name=TA_290-309/>  The eight issues published in the 1990s all had 96 pages, except the first, January–February 1994, which had 56 pages.<ref name=issues/>  The initial price was 25 cents. Price changes were as follows: 35 cents from May 1958; 50 cents from February 1959; 60 cents from December 1964; 75 cents from August–September 1970; $1.00 from April 1975; 79 cents for the August 1975 issue; 95 cents from September 1975; $1.00 from May 1976; $1.25 from June 1977, and $1.50 for the final professional issue in 1980.<ref name=TA_290-309/>