 In a 1958 advertisement in "Galaxy" for complete sets of the magazine for $3.50, the publisher described "Beyond" as "a princely experiment to determine whether there were enough readers to support a truly handsome, fantastically high-quality fantasy fiction magazine.There weren't", "as the rest of the country seemed to be ... out of town at the time and missed it on the newsstands".According to science-fiction historian Donald H. Tuck, "Beyond" published "some very good material," with appearances by many well-known authors, and the magazine is often cited as being the successor to the unusual fantasy tradition of "Unknown".