Magazine Publishers was a
pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The term "pulp" derives from the Pulp (paper), wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed, due to their ...
publishing house established by Harold Hersey and later owned by
A. A. Wyn in 1929. Under Wyn, it was known as "Ace Magazines", hence titles such as ''Ace Mystery'' and ''Ace Sports''. They also used the name "Periodical House", and also branched out to publishing comic books as
Ace Comics
''Ace Comics'' was a comic book series published by David McKay Publications between 1937 and 1949 — starting just before the Golden Age of Comic Books. The title reprinted syndicated newspaper strips owned by King Features Syndicate, followi ...
. In the 1940s the company also began publishing books.
In 1952 Wyn founded
Ace Books
Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction (SF) and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by A. A. Wyn, Aaron A. Wyn. It began as a genre publisher of mystery fiction, mysteries and western (genre), westerns, and soon branched out int ...
, and by the mid-fifties Wyn had sold most or all of his hardback rights, and may also have ceased publishing magazines by that time to focus on Ace Books.
Magazines
*''Ace Detective Magazine''
*''Ace Mystery''
*''Ace Sports''
*''Detective Digest''
*''Detective-Dragnet'' (later changed to ''Ten Detective Aces'')
*''Detective Romances''
*''Eerie Stories''
*''
Flying Aces''
(later became ''Flying Models'' and sold off)
*''Gold Seal Detective''
*''Lone Wolf Detective''
*''Love Fiction Weekly''
*''
Secret Agent X''
*''Spy Novels Magazine''
* ''Spy Stories''
*''Sure-Fire Detective Magazine''
*''Variety Detective Magazine''
*''Western Trails''
Pulp heroes
* Captain Hazzard
*
Moon Man
*
Secret Agent X
* Wade Hammond
References
Book publishing companies of the United States
Pulp magazine publishing companies of the United States
Publishing companies established in the 1930s
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