Urania (magazine) - Spin-offs

Spin-offs

The magazine sprung a great deal of spin-off series, mostly short-lived and ceased today:

• Notable exception of this rule is Millemondi, which started in 1970s with 3/4 monthly periodicity. It reprints famous novels by greatest SF authors which have been already published in the main series. Sometimes it houses previously unpublished collections of short stories.
• Urania Argento ("Silver Urania") was a monthly series started in 1995 with impressive covers by Oscar Chichoni and more lengthy, previously unpublished novels: it lasted 14 numbers.
• Urania Blu of 1984 was intended to reprint major short-stories collections and other works (notably a collection of articles about science fiction by Isaac Asimov), but had an unlucky run of only 4 numbers.
• Urania Biblioteca was another series of reprints with irregular periodicity.
• Classici Urania (now ceased) was a monthly reprint of the best novels and anthologies of the main series.
• Urania Fantasy was a monthly series dedicated to fantasy titles (1988–1995): it was canceled after 79 numbers. It has been resumed discontinuously in 2001–2006 (9 issues, with numbering starting again from 1). A new number 1 (featuring Robert E. Howard's stories about Kull) was published in April 2008.
• Urania Collezione started in 2003 and is still monthly outgoing: it is similar to Classici Urania but has revised translations (until 1980s novels were extensively abridged) and a different, better packaging.

Also a spin-off of Urania is Epix (rechristened Urania Epix starting from issue no. 10), a monthly launched in 2009. It houses horror, fantasy and fantastic novels or anthology, mainly by Italian authors.

For many years Urania included a comic strip section: main titles were B.C. by Johnny Hart, The Wizard of Id, by the same Hart and Brant Parker and Catfish by Bollen & Peterman.