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''Adventure'' was an American pulp magazine that was first published in November 1910〔Robinson, Frank M. & Davidson, Lawrence ''Pulp Culture - The Art of Fiction Magazines'' Collectors Press Inc 2007 (p.33-48).〕 by the Ridgway company, an offshoot of the Butterick Publishing Company. ''Adventure'' went on become one of the most profitable and critically acclaimed of all the American pulp magazines.〔(No. 1 Pulp - Time )〕 The magazine had 881 issues. The magazine's first editor was Trumbull White, he was succeeded in 1912 by Arthur Sullivant Hoffman (1876–1966), who would edit the magazine until 1927.〔Bleiler, Richard. "A History of ''Adventure'' Magazine", in ''The Index to Adventure Magazine'',Borgo Press, 1990 (p. 1-38).〕〔"Hoffman, Arthur Sullivant" in ''Who Was Who In America: VI''. Maquis, 1968 (p. 195).〕 ==The Hoffman Era== In its first decade, ''Adventure'' carried fiction from such notable writers as Rider Haggard, Rafael Sabatini, Baroness Orczy, Damon Runyon and William Hope Hodgson.〔Ellis, Peter Beresford. ''The Last Adventurer: the Life of Talbot Mundy, 1879-1940''. Donald M. Grant, 1984 (p.75).〕 Subsequently the magazine cultivated its own group of authors (who Hoffman dubbed his "Writers' Brigade") including Talbot Mundy, T.S. Stribling, Arthur O. Friel, brothers Patrick & Terence Casey, J. Allan Dunn, Harold Lamb, Hapsburg Liebe, Gordon Young,〔Sampson, Robert. ''Yesterday's Faces:Dangerous Horizons'' Popular Press, 1991, (p. 18).〕 Arthur D. Howden Smith, H. Bedford-Jones, W.C. Tuttle, Gordon MacCreagh,〔Server,Lee. ''Danger is My Business: an illustrated history of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines''. Chronicle Books, 1993.〕 Henry S. Whitehead, Hugh Pendexter, Robert J. Pearsall, and L. Patrick Greene. In 1912, Hoffman and his assistant,the novelist Sinclair Lewis created a popular identity card with a serial number for readers. If the bearer were killed, someone finding the card would notify the magazine who would in turn notify the next of kin of the hapless adventurer. The popularity of the card amongst travelers led to the formation of the Adventurers Club of New York.〔 The original New York Adventurers Club led to similar clubs in Chicago (1913), Los Angeles (1921), Copenhagen (1937) and Honolulu (1955).〔(Fielding's DangerFinder - Adventure Clubs )〕 Hoffman also was secretary of an organization named the "Legion" that had Theodore Roosevelt Jr. as one of its vice presidents. Membership cards of the organization included member's skills and specialties that were forwarded to the War Department when the United States entered World War I, the information being eventually used to create two regiments of aviation mechanics.〔 Hoffman's group would later provide a model for the organisation of the American Legion after the war.〔Moley, Raymond. ''The American Legion Story'', 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adventure (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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