Columbia Publications

Columbia Publications Ltd.
StatusDefunct
Foundedc. 1937
FounderLouis Silberkleit and Maurice Coyne[1]
Defunct1960; 64 years ago (1960)
Country of originU.S.
Headquarters location(nominal) Springfield, Massachusetts and Holyoke, Massachusetts
(actual) 60 Hudson Street, New York City
Key peopleRobert A. W. Lowndes
Publication typesPulp magazines
Fiction genresScience fiction, Western, detective stories, crime fiction, mystery fiction, romance fiction, sports fiction
ImprintsWinford Publications (1934–1940)
Northwest Publishing (1935–1940)
Chesterfield Publications (1936–1939)
Blue Ribbon Magazines[1] (1937–1941)
Double Action Magazines[1] (1938–1941)

Columbia Publications was an American publisher of pulp magazines featuring the genres of science fiction, westerns, detective stories, romance, and sports fiction. The company published such writers as Isaac Asimov, Louis L'Amour, Arthur C. Clarke, Randall Garrett, Edward D. Hoch, and William Tenn; Robert A. W. Lowndes was an important early editor for such writers as Carol Emshwiller, Edward D. Hoch and Kate Wilhelm.

Operating from the mid-1930s to 1960, Columbia's most notable magazines were the science fiction pulps Future Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Quarterly. Other long-running titles included Double Action Western Magazine, Real Western, Western Action, Famous Western, Today's Love Stories, Super Sports, and Double Action Detective and Mystery Stories. In addition to pulp magazines, the company also published some paperback novels, primarily in the science fiction genre.

Columbia Publications was the most prolific of a number of pulp imprints operated in the 1930s by Louis Silberkleit. Nominally, their offices were in Springfield, Massachusetts and Holyoke, Massachusetts[2] (the addresses of their printers, binders, and mailers for subscriptions), but they were actually produced out of 60 Hudson Street in New York City.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Silberklet entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Ashley, Mike; Thompson, Raymond H. (1985). "Science Fiction". In Tymn, Marshall B.; Ashley, Mike. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines. Westport CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 511–519. ISBN 0-313-21221-X.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Saunders was invoked but never defined (see the help page).