Arthur Sullivant Hoffman (1912–1927) Joseph Cox (1927) Anthony Rud (1927–1930) Albert A. Proctor (1930–1934) William Corcoran (1934) Howard V. L. Bloomfield (1934–1940) Kenneth S. White (1941–1948) Kendall Goodwyn (1949–1951) Ejler Jakobsson (1951–1953) Alden Norton (1954–1964) Peter Gannett (1965–1970) Adventure was an American pulp magazine that was first published in November 1910[3] by the Ridgway company, a subsidiary of the Butterick Publishing Company.

[5][6] In its first decade, Adventure carried fiction from such notable writers as Rider Haggard, Rafael Sabatini, Gouverneur Morris, Baroness Orczy, Damon Runyon and William Hope Hodgson.

Stribling (detective stories), Arthur O. Friel (South America), brothers Patrick and Terence Casey ("hobo" stories), J. Allan Dunn (the South Seas), Harold Lamb (medieval Europe and Asia), Hapsburg Liebe (Westerns), Gordon Young (South Pacific stories and urban thrillers),[8] Arthur D. Howden Smith (Viking era and US history), H. Bedford-Jones (historical warfare), W.C. Tuttle (humorous Westerns), Gordon MacCreagh (Burma and East Africa),[9] Henry S. Whitehead (the Virgin Islands), Hugh Pendexter (US history), Robert J. Pearsall (China), and L. Patrick Greene (Southern Africa).

[13] Adventure's letters page, "The Camp-Fire" featured Hoffman's editorials, background by the authors to their stories and discussions by the readers.

[14] Adventure featured several other notable columns, including: Hoffman encouraged the details of his writers' fiction to be as factually accurate as possible-mistakes would frequently be pointed out and criticized by the magazine's readers.

[16] In addition, Adventure under Hoffman also showcased the work of several famous artists, including Rockwell Kent, John R. Neill (who illustrated several Harold Lamb stories), Charles Livingston Bull, H.C. Murphy and Edgar Franklin Wittmack.

Adventure continued to publish factual pieces by noted figures, including future film producer Val Lewton[18] and Venezuelan military writer Rafael de Nogales.

[21] During the 1940s, the magazine carried numerous fiction and articles concerned with the ongoing Second World War; writers who contributed to Adventure in this period included E. Hoffmann Price, De Witt Newbury,[22] Jim Kjelgaard and Fredric Brown.

Artists on the publication during the 1930s and 1940s included Walter M. Baumhofer, Hubert Rogers, Rafael De Soto, Lawrence Sterne Stevens and Norman Saunders.