Top-Notch Magazine

{{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} thumb | right '''''Top-Notch Magazine''''' was an American pulp magazine of adventure fiction published between 1910 and 1937 by Street & Smith in New York City.<ref>''Yesterday's Faces:Dangerous Horizons'' by Robert Sampson. Popular Press, 1991, (p. 186).</ref>

==History and profile== ''Top-Notch Magazine'' was first published in March 1910.<ref name="pmp">{{cite web|title=Top-Notch |url=https://www.pulpmags.org/content/info/top-notch-magazine.html|work=The Pulp Magazines Project|accessdate=8 May 2020}}</ref> Issued twice-monthly, it published 602 editions until it ceased in October 1937.<ref name="pmp"/> For most of its history, the cover price was 10 cents. It began as a magazine for teenagers and even as a pulp concentrated mostly on sports stories, switching to a men's adventure magazine in the 1930s. Notable contributors to ''Top-Notch Magazine'' included Jack London, F. Britten Austin, William Wallace Cook, Bertram Atkey, and Johnston McCulley in the early days; and later Robert E. Howard,<ref>''Robert E. Howard'' by Marc Cerasini, and Charles E. Hoffman, Starmont House, 1987,(p. 123)</ref> L. Ron Hubbard,<ref>''Pulp Culture - The Art of Fiction Magazines'' by Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson, Collectors Press, Inc. 2007( p.184-5).</ref> Lester Dent,<ref>Robinson and Davidson, (p. 11)</ref> Carl Jacobi,<ref>''Lost in the Rentharpian Hills: spanning the decades with Carl Jacobi'' by R. Dixon Smith. Popular Press, 1985 (p. 79)</ref> Burt L. Standish, J. Allan Dunn, and Harry Stephen Keeler.

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==References== *J. Randolph Cox (2000). ''The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book'' (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing, {{ISBN|978-0-313-25674-5}}). *Illustrated checklist: [http://www.philsp.com/mags/top_notch.html Galactic Central website] {{Authority control}}

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