Top-Notch Magazine was an American pulp magazine of adventure fiction published between 1910 and 1937 by Street & Smith in New York City.[1]
History and profile
Top-Notch Magazine was first published in March 1910.[2] Issued twice-monthly, it published 602 editions until it ceased in October 1937.[2] For most of its history, the cover price was 10 cents. Began as a magazine for teenagers and even as a pulp concentrated mostly
on sports stories, switching to a men's adventure magazine in the 1930s. Notable contributors to Top-Notch Magazine included
Jack London, F. Britten Austin, William Wallace Cook, Bertram Atkey, and Johnston McCulley in the early days; and later Robert E. Howard,[3]
L. Ron Hubbard,[4] Lester Dent,[5] Carl Jacobi,[6] Burt L. Standish, J. Allan Dunn, and Harry Stephen Keeler.
Notes
- ^ Yesterday's Faces:Dangerous Horizons by Robert Sampson. Popular Press, 1991, (p. 186).
- ^ a b "Top-Notch". The Pulp Magazines Project. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ Robert E. Howard by Marc Cerasini, and Charles E. Hoffman, Starmont House, 1987,(p. 123)
- ^ Pulp Culture - The Art of Fiction Magazines by Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson, Collectors Press, Inc. 2007( p.184-5).
- ^ Robinson and Davidson, (p. 11)
- ^ Lost in the Rentharpian Hills: spanning the decades with Carl Jacobi by R. Dixon Smith. Popular Press, 1985 (p. 79)
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