Golden Fleece Historical Adventure
Golden Fleece Historical Adventure was an American pulp magazine that ran for nine issues from October 1938 to June 1939. It focused on historical fiction, which was rare among pulp magazines.
The magazine published stories by notable writers, including two by Robert E. Howard: "Black Vulmea's Vengeance" and "Gates of Empire." Other contributors included Talbot Mundy, H. Bedford-Jones, Ralph Milne Farley, Anthony M. Rud, and Murray Leinster. Artists who provided covers and art included Jay Jackson, Harold Delay, Harold McCauley, and Margaret Brundage, who painted two covers.
Science fiction historian Mike Ashley described the magazine as lively and unpretentious, but suggested it failed partly due to distribution problems. Sun Publications, a small Chicago-based company, published Golden Fleece and would have faced tough competition from Adventure, one of the leading pulps of the time.
Publication details: Sun Publications of Chicago published the magazine, with editors A. J. Gontier, Jr., and C.G. Williams. There were nine monthly issues (October 1938 to June 1939), in one volume of three issues and a second volume of six issues. Each issue was in a 128-page pulp format and priced at 20 cents. One anthology was published that collected stories from Golden Fleece Historical Adventure.
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