Golden Fleece Historical Adventure
.jpg) Cover of first issue | |
| First issue | October 1938 |
|---|---|
| Final issue | June 1939 |
| Company | Sun Publications |
| Country | USA |
Golden Fleece Historical Adventure was an American adventure pulp magazine which published nine issues between 1938 and 1939. [1][2] Golden Fleece specialised in publishing historical fiction - one of the few pulp magazines to do so.[3] It published two stories by Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian: "Black Vulmea's Vengeance" and "Gates of Empire". Other writers included Talbot Mundy, H. Bedford-Jones, Ralph Milne Farley, Anthony M. Rud and Murray Leinster. Contributing artists included Jay Jackson, Harold Delay, Harold McCauley, and Margaret Brundage, who painted two covers for Golden Fleece.[1][2][3]
Science fiction historian Mike Ashley describes it as a "rousing and unpretentious" magazine, and suggests that it may have failed because of distribution problems; the publisher, Sun Publications, was a small Chicago-based firm. Ashley also suggests that it would have been difficult for the magazine to compete with Adventure, one of the leading pulp magazines of its day.[1]
Bibliographic details
[edit]The publisher was Sun Publications of Chicago; the editors were A. J. Gontier, Jr., and C.G. Williams. There were nine monthly issues, from October 1938 to June 1939. There was one volume of three issues, and a second volume of six issues. Each magazine was in pulp format, with 128 pages, priced at 20 cents.[1]
There was one anthology published that collected fiction from Golden Fleece Historical Adventure:[4]
- Desmond, William (1975). Golden Fleece Historical Adventure. Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts: Odyssey Publications. OCLC 317511542.
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Ashley, Mike (1985). "Golden Fleece Historical Adventure". In Tymn, Marshall B.; Ashley, Mike (eds.). Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 319–320. ISBN 0-3132-1221-X.
- Agnew, Jeremy (2018). The Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 174. ISBN 1-4766-6948-1.
- Ashley, Mike (1995). Contento, William; Ashley, Mike (eds.). The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 14. ISBN 0-3132-4030-2.
- Ellis, Douglas (2017). Ellis, Douglas; Hulse, Ed; Robert, Weinberg (eds.). The Art of the Pulps : An Illustrated History. Westport, Connecticut: IDW Publishing. pp. 17, 30. ISBN 978-1-68405-091-8.