''Thrilling Adventures'' was a monthly American pulp magazine published from 1931 to 1943.Doug Ellis, John Locke, John Gunnison, ''The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps''. Adventure House, 2000, (p. 270).

History

''Thrilling Adventures'' was created in 1931 by editor

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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

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.) The first edition of ''Thrilling Adventures'' was published in December 1931. ''Thrilling Adventures'' published fictional stories, mostly of the adventure and sports genres. Edgar Rice Burroughs published both

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stories and

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in ''Thrilling Adventures''.

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and Allan R. Bosworth contributed sports stories to ''Thrilling Adventures''. Robert E. Howard published two

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-set stories in ''Thrilling Adventures'' (one posthumously). For the magazine,

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wrote historical stories about Alan de Beaufort, a Crusader who joins the armies of Genghis Khan, in a similar style to

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. 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.Ed Hulse, ''The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction'' Murania Press, 2018. . (pp.130-131). Carl Jacobi had his adventure stories set in

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and

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published in ''Thrilling Adventures''. Other contributors to the magazine included

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, Jack D'Arcy, Kenneth Gilbert, Donald Bayne Hobart, Arthur J. Burks, George Fielding Eliot, Henry Kuttner, Jim Kjelgaard and

Manly Wade Wellman Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 – April 5, 1986) was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as '' Astounding Stories'', '' Startling Stories'', '' Unknown'' and ''Strange Stories'', Wellman ...

. The magazine also published material under several house names including Jackson Cole, Kerry McRoberts, and Scott Morgan. It continued as a monthly until 1943 when it was reduced to a bimonthly, and the final issue was the November 1943 edition. A total of 139 issues were published during its existence.

Anthologies

* ''The Best of Thrilling Adventures 1933-35'' (Introduction by

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). Altus Press, 2017.

References

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