Adventure (magazine)

Adventure
Cover of the first issue, November 1910
Former editorsTrumbull White (1910–1912)

Arthur Sullivant Hoffman (1912–1927)
Joseph Cox (1927)
Anthony Rud (1927–1930)
Albert A. Proctor (1930–1934)
William Corcoran (1934)
Howard V. L. Bloomfield (1934–1940)
Kenneth S. White (1941–1948)
Kendall Goodwyn (1949–1951)
Ejler Jakobsson (1951–1953)
Alden Norton (1954–1964)
Peter Gannett (1965–1970)

Carson Bingham (1970–1971)[1]
CategoriesPulp magazine
Circulation300,000[2]
First issueNovember 1910
Final issue
Number		1971
881 issues

Adventure was an American pulp magazine that was first published in November 1910[3] by the Ridgway company, a subsidiary of the Butterick Publishing Company. Adventure went on to become one of the most profitable and critically acclaimed of all the American pulp magazines.[4] The magazine had 881 issues. Its first editor was Trumbull White. He was succeeded in 1912 by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman (1876–1966), who edited the magazine until 1927.[5][6]

  1. ^ Sampson, Robert (1991). Yesterday's Faces: Dangerous Horizons. Popular Press, (p. 182).
  2. ^ "Adventure Magazine". www.philsp.com.
  3. ^ Robinson, Frank M. & Davidson, Lawrence Pulp Culture – The Art of Fiction Magazines. Collectors Press Inc 2007 (p. 33-48).
  4. ^ "No. 1 Pulp". Time.
  5. ^ Bleiler, Richard. "A History of Adventure Magazine", in The Index to Adventure Magazine, Borgo Press, 1990 (p. 1-38).
  6. ^ "Hoffman, Arthur Sullivant" in Who Was Who In America: VI. Maquis, 1968 (p. 195).