Double Action Magazines
| 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; editor Robert A. W. Lowndes was an important early editor for such writers as Carol Emshwiller, Edward D. Hoch and Kate Wilhelm. 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); along with Science Fiction and the western titles, Double Action Detective and Mystery Stories (title revived in 1954 as Double Action Detective, all the magazines folding in 1960) were the last magazines Columbia would publish. 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, the addresses of their printers, binders and mailers for subscriptions, but they were actually produced out of 60 Hudson Street in New York City.
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