.jpg) Cover of first issue | |
| First issue | October 1938 |
|---|---|
| Final issue | June 1939 |
| Company | Sun Publications |
| Country | USA |
Golden Fleece Historical Adventure was an American adventure pulp magazine which published nine issues between 1938 and 1939. Golden Fleece specialised in publishing historical fiction. It published two stories by Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian: "Black Vulmea's Vengeance" and "Gates of Empire". Other writers included Talbot Mundy, H. Bedford-Jones, Ralph Milne Farley, Anthony M. Rud and Murray Leinster. Contributing artists included Jay Jackson, Harold Delay, Harold McCauley, and Margaret Brundage, who painted two covers for Golden Fleece.[1][2]
Science fiction historian Mike Ashley describes it as a "rousing and unpretentious" magazine, and suggests that it may have failed because of distribution problems; the publisher, Sun Publications, was a small Chicago-based firm. Ashley also suggests that it would have been difficult for the magazine to compete with Adventure, one of the leading pulp magazines of its day.[1]