7-405: Steeger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Harry Steeger (1903–1990), co-founder of Popular Publications, one of the major publishers of pulp magazine Ingrid Steeger (1947–2023), German actress and comedian See also [ edit ] Steger (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
14-432: A run of seven years. The first issue featured an Erle Stanley Gardner story: "The Key to Room 537." Gang World, a crime fiction magazine featuring characters "in conflict with each other and the law" ran from 1930 through 1935. The fourth title, for the lucrative western market, was titled Western Rangers . It was the shortest-lived of the original line-up, lasting for nineteen issues through April, 1932. The lead story of
21-437: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Harry Steeger Henry Steeger III (May 26, 1903 – December 25, 1990 ) was an American magazine editor and publisher. Steeger co-founded Popular Publications in 1930, one of the major publishers of pulp magazines , with former classmate Harold S. Goldsmith. Steeger handled editorial matters while Goldsmith took care of the business side. Both were veterans of
28-457: The pulp magazine business. Steeger had edited war pulps at Dell Publishing while Goldsmith had served as an editor at A. A. Wyn's Magazine Publishers . Steeger's new firm launched four titles which debuted on the newsstands with cover dates of October 1930. Battle Aces was devoted to aviation war stories and enjoyed a two-year run before changing titles. Detective Action Stories , one of Popular Publications' most successful titles, enjoyed
35-411: The surname Steeger . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steeger&oldid=1191754611 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
42-477: The Pulp Era. The over-the-top stories of torture and titillation however, led the public to look down on the fiction found in the pulp magazines. Steeger created the long-running pulp character The Spider and published it as a Popular Publications pulp magazine from 1933 to 1943. The series was published monthly and ran for 118 issues. (A 119th issue was published years later.) Steeger also edited (anonymously)
49-408: The first issue was "The Red Ranger," by J. Allan Dunn , "featuring a Texas ranger who runs up against a bunch of Mexican smugglers and eventually saves the captured American girl from their clutches." With Horror Stories and Terror Tales , Steeger started the " shudder pulp " (or "weird menace") genre. Although short lived, this genre was responsible for some of the most striking cover art of
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