A long-running pulp reprint fanzine is High Adventure, published by John Gunnison and his Adventure House. At this point it has put out over 180 issues.
It also has a bit of a confusing history. It started out in 1991 as Pulp Review. At the time, it was 5.5- by 8.5-inches in size, with black & white covers. With issue #12, it went to color covers, and issues #2-11 were later reprinted with color covers in the 2000s.
With issue #24, it was re-titled High Adventure. At some point, it increased to 6- by 9-inches in size (around #18?), and I think around #55 it went to 7- by 10-inches. I think the later was due to using print-on-demand to publish them.
Frequency has for a long time been six times a year.
The quality of production has improved. In earlier issues, the stories were more like photocopies of pulps. Later ones seem to be cleaned up, and some appear to have had optical character recognition used to reset the type.
As to the content, this is varied. The earlier issues had a lot of pulp hero reprints, with a smattering of other pulp content. In more recent years, as others have stepped up with pulp heroes, the focus is less on pulp heroes, and then on those not being reprinted by others, and there has been more non-pulp hero issues with collections from various pulp magazines, often with either author or theme focused. Depending on the length of the works reprinted, there may be one novel or several shorter works in an issue; each being around 110-120 pages or so. There has also been the occasional reprint of comic strips that ran in pulp magazines, like Sally the Sleuth.
As to pulp heroes. We have had The Black Bat (#69, 90, 96, 102, 107, 112, 117, 131, and 137), The Green Lama (#70, 75, 80, 84, 88, and 93), Ki-Gor (#7, 71, 76, 81, 86, 92, 97, 103, 111, 114, 119, and 123), The Green Ghost (#15 and 149), Jim Anthony (#2, 13, 103, 113, and 122), Wade Hammond (#8 and 16), The Phantom Detective (#52, 57, 68, 74, 79, 91, 108, 120, and 129), and others. G-8 appeared in #28, 36, and 54 before Adventure House started doing a G-8 reprint series. Dr. Yen Sin was done in #32 and 39, and Wu Fang was done in #31, 38, 42, 47, and 55 (before Altus Press reprinted the whole series), but the first stories of those series were skipped due to the prior reprints by Robert Weinberg.
Probably the highlight was a reprint of the Purple Invasion series from Operator #5 in #18-21, 23, 25-27, 30, 35, 37, 46, 48, and 50, only recently re-reprinted by Altus Press in two volumes.
For authors, there have been issues focused on H. Bedford-Jones (#109, 114, 116, 121, 146, 162, and 167), F. Van Wyck Mason (#148, 164 and 169), Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (#115, 154, and 181), L. Patrick Green (#179 and 184), George Fielding Eliot (#182), J.D. Newsom (#183), and “Free Lances in Diplomacy” by Clarence Herbert New (#159 and 163) and more.
For themed issues, there are those focused on Planet Stories (#135, 143, and 151), Wonder Stories (#152), Ten Detective Aces (#118, 147, and 160), People’s (#145), Far East stories (#152), weird menace (#155), adventure fiction (#110, 126, and 130), westerns (#29), high seas adventures (#78), and aviation (#136 and 157).
This magazine should not be overlooked. I’ve found myself going back to older issues that I passed over as my interests have changed. Many issues are still available thanks to print-on-demand, but don’t make a mistake passing it by. I will probably highlight individual issues in future postings.
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