Thrilling Publications
Thrilling Publications, aka Beacon Magazines[citation needed] (1936–37), Better Publications (1937–43) and Standard Magazines (1943–55), was a pulp magazine publisher run by Ned Pines, publishing such titles as Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories.
A native of Malden, Massachusetts, Pines became the president of Pines Publications in 1928. Leo Margulies, a long-time editor with Pines, was the highest-paid pulp editor for many years. Pines folded most of his magazines in 1955 but continued to lead the company until 1961.
Thrilling Pulps Cover artists
Pines sought out and hired leading, freelance illustrators of the day to create high-impact cover art for his extensive line of pulp magazines, comics, and paperbacks. Prolific artists like Earle K. Bergey and George Rozen produced hundreds of imaginative, even lurid, cover paintings that are now visually synonymous with the Thrilling pulp brand and a diverse roster of genres that include science fiction, fantasy, romance, westerns, and detective.
Paperbacks
In 1942 Pines started Popular Library, a paperback publishing house, and devoted himself to that company after closing his other ventures. Popular reprinted materials from the pulps.[citation needed] Pines was the president of Popular Library from 1942 to 1966 and its chairman from 1966 to 1968. Retiring in 1971, he continued to work as a consultant.
A complete history of the Thrilling chain is available in the anthology, Thrilling Pulp Heroes (Adventure House, 2006).
Characters
- The Black Bat
- Captain Danger
- Captain Future (a separate comic book character, unrelated to the pulp character, also existed)
- Crimson Mask
- Green Ghost (also appeared in comics)
- Masked Detective
- The Phantom Detective
Titles
- Air War
- Black Book Detective
- Captain Future
- Detective Book Magazine
- Detective Novels
- Exciting Love
- Exciting Football
- G-Men
- The Lone Eagle
- Masked Detective
- Mobsters
- Popular Detective
- Popular Love
- Popular Sports Magazine
- Rodeo Romances
- Sky Fighters
- Startling Stories
- Strange Stories
- Thrilling Adventures (1931–1943)
- Thrilling Baseball
- Thrilling Detective (1931–53, 213 issues)
- Thrilling Football
- Thrilling Love
- Thrilling Mystery
- Thrilling Ranch
- Thrilling Sports
- Thrilling Western
- West
- Thrilling Wonder Stories (1936–55, 112 issues)
See also
- List of Nedor Comics publications
References
- Wooley, John and Locke, John. "A History of the Thrilling Pulps." Thrilling Detective Heroes [Adventure House, 2007].