''Top-Notch Magazine'' was an American
pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The term "pulp" derives from the Pulp (paper), wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed, due to their ...
of adventure fiction published between 1910 and 1937 by
Street & Smith in
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...
.
History and profile
''Top-Notch Magazine'' was first published in March 1910.
Issued twice-monthly, it published 602 editions until it ceased in October 1937.
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
John Griffith London (; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t ...
,
F. Britten Austin,
William Wallace Cook,
Bertram Atkey, and
Johnston McCulley in the early days; and later
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American writer who wrote pulp magazine, pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sor ...
,
L. Ron Hubbard,
Lester Dent,
Carl Jacobi,
[''Lost in the Rentharpian Hills: spanning the decades with Carl Jacobi'' by R. Dixon Smith. Popular Press, 1985 (p. 79)] Burt L. Standish,
J. Allan Dunn, and
Harry Stephen Keeler.
Notes
References
*J. Randolph Cox (2000). ''The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book'' (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, ).
*Illustrated checklist
Galactic Central website
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Pulp magazines
Magazines established in 1910
Magazines disestablished in 1937
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Street & Smith
Magazines published in New York City
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