Thrilling Adventures

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Thrilling Adventures
Categories Pulp magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founder Leo Margulies
Founded1931
First issueDecember 1931
Final issueNovember 1943
Country United States
LanguageEnglish

Thrilling Adventures was a monthly American pulp magazine published from 1931 to 1943. [1]

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History

Thrilling Adventures was created in 1931 by editor Leo Margulies [2] and was patterned after the pulp Adventure. It was one of 16 pulps that Margulies founded that incorporated the adjective "Thrilling" in the title. (The company that published the Thrilling titles eventually changed its name to Thrilling Publications.) [2] The first edition of Thrilling Adventures was published in December 1931.

Thrilling Adventures published fictional stories, mostly of the adventure and sports genres. [3] Edgar Rice Burroughs published both Tarzan stories and westerns in Thrilling Adventures. [4] Louis L'Amour and Allan R. Bosworth contributed sports stories to Thrilling Adventures. [3] Robert E. Howard published two Afghanistan-set stories in Thrilling Adventures (one posthumously). [5] For the magazine, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson wrote historical stories about Alan de Beaufort, a Crusader who joins the armies of Genghis Khan, in a similar style to Harold Lamb. [6] Perley Poore Sheehan contributed two series to Thrilling Adventures, Captain Trouble, an American adventuring in the Far East, and (under the pseudonym Paul Regard) Kwa of the Jungle, a Tarzan imitation. [7] Carl Jacobi had his adventure stories set in Borneo and Balochistan published in Thrilling Adventures. [8] Other contributors to the magazine included L. Ron Hubbard, Johnston McCulley, Jack D'Arcy, Kenneth Gilbert, Donald Bayne Hobart, Arthur J. Burks, [9] George Fielding Eliot, Henry Kuttner, [10] Jim Kjelgaard and Manly Wade Wellman. [7] The magazine also published material under several house names including Jackson Cole, Kerry McRoberts, and Scott Morgan. [7] It continued as a monthly until 1943 when it was reduced to a bimonthly, and the final issue was the November 1943 edition. [1] A total of 139 issues were published during its existence. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 Doug Ellis, John Locke, John Gunnison, The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps. Adventure House, 2000, ISBN   1886937451 (p. 270).
  2. 1 2 "Leo Margulies at 115!". Pulpfest. June 2015. Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  3. 1 2 John Dinan (September 1, 1998). Sports in the Pulp Magazines. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN   978-1-4766-0767-2 . Retrieved December 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ John Taliaferro, Tarzan Forever: The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs the Creator of Tarzan. New York, Simon and Schuster, ISBN   9780743236508 2002 (pp. 308-9)
  5. ↑ Steve Tompkins, "Introduction" (p. xviii ) to Robert E. Howard, El Borak and Other Desert Adventures. New York : Ballantine Books Del Rey, 2010. ISBN   034550545X.
  6. ↑ "The Pulp Swordsmen: Alan de Beaufort" at REHupa Website, Archived from the original on 2010-05-30. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  7. 1 2 3 Ed Hulse, The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction Murania Press, 2018. ISBN   978-1726443463. (pp.130-131).
  8. ↑ R. Dixon Smith, Lost in the Rentharpian Hills : spanning the decades with Carl Jacobi. Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985. ISBN   9780879722883 (pp. 82-89).
  9. ↑ Jerry Page, "Arthur J. Burks: A Pulp Perspective". Echoes Magazine, October 1990 (pp. 18-28).
  10. ↑ Darrell Schweitzer, The Threshold of Forever: Essays and Reviews.Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press, 2017. ISBN   9781479425648 (p. 259).
  11. ↑ "Thrilling Adventures". The Pulp Magazines Project. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
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