Columbia Publications
| Status | Defunct (1960) |
|---|---|
| Founded | c. 1937 |
| Founder | Louis Silberkleit and Maurice Coyne |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Headquarters location | (nominal) Springfield, Massachusetts and Holyoke, Massachusetts (actual) 60 Hudson Street, New York City |
| Key people | Robert A. W. Lowndes |
| Publication types | Pulp magazines |
| Fiction genres | Science fiction, Western, Detective stories, Crime fiction, Mystery fiction, Romance fiction, Sports fiction |
| Imprints | Winford Publications (1934–1940) Northwest Publishing (1935–1940) Chesterfield Publications (1936–1939) Blue Ribbon Magazines (1937–1941) Double Action Magazines (1938–1941) |
Columbia Publications was an American publisher of pulp magazines featuring the genres of science fiction, westerns, detective stories, romance, and sports fiction. The company published such writers as Isaac Asimov, Louis L'Amour, Arthur C. Clarke, Randall Garrett, Edward D. Hoch, and William Tenn. Operating from the mid-1930s to 1960, Columbia's most notable magazines were the science fiction pulps Future Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Quarterly. Other long-running titles included Double Action Western Magazine (1934–1960), Real Western (1935–1960), Western Action (1936–1960), Famous Western (1937–1960), Today's Love Stories (1938–1959), and Super Sports (1939–1957). In addition to pulp magazines, the company also published some paperback novels, primarily in the science fiction genre.
Columbia Publications was the most prolific of a number of pulp imprints operated in the 1930s by Louis Silberkleit. Nominally, their offices were in Springfield, Massachusetts and Holyoke, Massachusetts, but they were actually produced out of 60 Hudson Street in New York City.
Louis Silberkleit and Maurice Coyne (two out of three of the men who later founded MLJ Magazines (Archie Comic Publications)) started publishing pulps in Sept. 1934 with the publisher brand Winford Publications and the title Double Action Western Magazine, soon joined by Real Western. The two men launched the the Northwest Publishing imprint in 1935, Chesterfield Publications in 1936, Blue Ribbon Magazines in 1937, and Double Action Magazines in 1938. Silberkleit ran the companies while Coyne acted as a silent partner and business manager.
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