The Adventurous Covers of Action Stories

Posted on August 5, 2020 by Dazzling Erin

Artist Unknown

Action Stories was published from 1921 to 1950. It specialized in action-packed stories about men doing manly things and women who knew how to handle a rifle. Despite the dinosaur featured in the cover above, Action Stories was known for usually turning down horror and fantasy-themed stories and instead specializing in westerns, war stories, and sports fiction. Among the writers that were published by Action Stories: Robert E. Howard, Walt Coburn, Morgan Robertson, Horace McCoy, Theodore Roscoe, Greye La Spina, Anthony M. Rud, Thomas Thursday and Les Savage, Jr.

Below are a sampling of adventurous covers from Action Stories!

by Allen Gustav Anderson

by Emery Clarke

by H.C. Murphy

by Harry Lemon Parkhurst

by Norman Saunders

Unknown Artist

The Top Notch Covers of Top-Notch Magazine!

Posted on May 27, 2020 by Dazzling Erin

Top-Notch Magazine was a pulp magazine that ran from 1910 to 1937. It was published by Smith & Street and, like most pulp magazines of the time, it was full of stories of crime, adventure, and sports. The magazine featured early work from writers like Jack London, Robert E. Howard, Lester Dent, and L. Ron Hubbard before he tried to warn the world about evil lord Xenu.

Below are a few of the covers of Top-Notch Magazine! Where known, the artist have been credited.