The Comet was an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 science fiction fanzine

Science fiction fanzine

A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day...

, the first of its kind.

History

It was first published in May 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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The fanzine's original editors were Raymond A. Palmer

Raymond A. Palmer

Raymond Arthur Palmer was the influential editor of Amazing Stories from 1938 through 1949, when he left publisher Ziff-Davis to publish and edit Fate Magazine, and eventually many other magazines and books through his own publishing houses, including Amherst Press and Palmer Publications...

 and Walter Dennis. Its second issue, dated July 1930, was called "?", and was the first issue to refer directly to science fiction. The third issue, dated August 1930, took on its third title, Cosmology, a name it retained for the duration of its publication, which ended in 1933.