Action Stories

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Action Stories
Editor Unknown pre-october 1935

J. F. Byrne (October 1935-June 1936)
Malcolm Reiss (August 1936-Spring 1949)
Unknown post-spring 1949

Categories Pulp magazine
Frequency Monthly (September 1921–December 1932)

Irregular (November 1933–March 1934)
Bi-monthly (June 1934–June 1936)
Monthly (August 1936–January 1937)
Bi-monthly (February 1937–April 1943)
Quarterly (Summer 1943-Fall 1950)

First issue September 1921
Final issue
— Number
Fall 1950
#50, vol. 5 (#225 overall)
Company Fiction House
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language English

Action Stories was a multi-genre pulp magazine published between September 1921 and Fall 1950, with a brief hiatus at the end of 1932.

As an adventure pulp[1] it did not feature the horror and science fiction of other pulp magazines. Instead it focused on real-world adventure stories. At first mostly westerns but branching out into sports fiction, war stories and adventures in exotic countries in 1937.[2]

[edit] Reprints

A British reprint published by Hutchinson & Co. ran from April 1923 to January 1928.

In 2007 replicas of the original pulp magazine are available from publishers such as Girasol Collectibles and Adventure House.

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