Popular Electronics: version 1

Saved 2026-09-25 05:09 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added UPC 0 09128 48784 7 as the 1991-1992 newsstand code of Gernsback Publications' Popular Electronics magazine, confirmed from the text layer of scanned covers on World Radio History (Jan, Jun, Sep. This is the current version.

Source of v1

# Popular Electronics <!--brand-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Popular Electronics
disambiguation: US electronics hobbyist magazine
summary: Magazine title published by Ziff-Davis from 1954 to 1982 and by Gernsback Publications from 1989 to 1999.
founded: 1954-10
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role     | target                         | market | from    | until   | ended | status  | source       | note                                                            |
| -------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | ------- | ------- | ----- | ------- | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by | company/gernsback-publications |        | 1989-02 | 1999-12 | true  | printed | ^wrh-1991-06 | Publisher named in the June 1991 masthead; dates per Wikipedia. |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                 | type   | locale | from    | until   |
| -------------------- | ------ | ------ | ------- | ------- |
| Hands-On Electronics | search | en     |         | 1989-01 |
| Poptronics           | search | en     | 2000-01 |         |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                                                        | title                                 | accessed   | publisher                                                   | kind        | published | record_id | locator                         | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------------------------------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wrh-1991-06  | https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/90s/91/PE-1991-06.pdf | Popular Electronics, June 1991 (scan) | 2026-09-25 | Gernsback Publications (scan hosted by World Radio History) | publication | 1991-06   |           | Front cover; contents; masthead |              |             |          |
| wikipedia-pe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Electronics                          | Popular Electronics                   | 2026-09-25 | Wikipedia                                                   | other       |           |           |                                 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Popular Electronics is a US electronics hobbyist magazine title. Ziff-Davis started it with the October 1954 issue and published it until 1982; the title was then sold to Gernsback Publications, which renamed its Hands-On Electronics to Popular Electronics in February 1989 and published it until December 1999, when it merged with Electronics Now to become Poptronics.[^wikipedia-pe] Under Gernsback each monthly issue carried construction projects, experiments and columns on amateur radio, shortwave and scanners for hobbyists.[^wrh-1991-06]
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