- Action Stories
Infobox Magazine
title = Action Stories
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editor = "Unknown pre-october 1935"J. F. Byrne (October 1935-June 1936)Malcolm Reiss (August 1936-Spring 1949)
"Unknown post-spring 1949"
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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)
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category =Pulp magazine
company =Fiction House
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firstdate = September 1921
country = USA
language = English
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finaldate = Fall 1950
finalnumber = #50, vol. 5 (#225 overall)
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circulation_year ="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 [ [http://mason.gmu.edu/~mhobbs/hist697/design.htm Amazing Tales - The Graphic Design of the Pulps] , retrieved
11 October 2007 ] 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. [ [http://philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t19.htm#A571 Note made by contents for August 1937] , retrieved18 October 2007 ]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
External links
* [http://www.philsp.com/data/data003.html#ACTIONSTORIES Magazine Datafile for Action Stories]
** [http://www.philsp.com/mags/action_stories.html Illustrated issue checklist]
** [http://philsp.com/homeville/fmi/t17.htm#A526 Issue contents] (beginning of list, which covers several pages)
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