Action Stories

Action Stories
Publisher Fiction House
Schedule

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)
Format Pulp magazine
Publication date September 1921 – Fall 1950
Number of issues 225 brokendown over 5 volumes
Editor(s)

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

Unknown post-spring 1949

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]

Writers who appeared in Action Stories included Robert E. Howard,[3] Walt Coburn [4], Morgan Robertson (a number of his stories were posthumously published here), Horace McCoy, Theodore Roscoe, Greye La Spina, Anthony M. Rud, Thomas Thursday and Les Savage, Jr..

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.

References

  1. ^ Amazing Tales - The Graphic Design of the Pulps, retrieved 11 October 2007
  2. ^ Note made by contents for August 1937, retrieved 18 October 2007
  3. ^ Paul Herman, "Introduction" to The Complete Action Stories by Robert E. Howard. Wildside Press LLC, 2004, ISBN 9780809511259 (pp.7-9)
  4. ^ The Western Story: A Chronological Treasury by Jon Tuska. University of Nebraska Press, 1999, ISBN 9780803294394 (p. xxviii)

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