Harry Steeger

Steeger co-founded Popular Publications in 1930, one of the major publishers of pulp magazines, with former classmate Harold S. Goldsmith.

Battle Aces was devoted to aviation war stories and enjoyed a two-year run before changing titles.

Gang World, a crime fiction magazine featuring characters "in conflict with each other and the law" ran from 1930 through 1935.

"[3] With Horror Stories and Terror Tales, Steeger started the "shudder pulp" (or "weird menace") genre.

The over-the-top stories of torture and titillation however, led the public to look down on the fiction found in the pulp magazines.

Harry Steeger (left) with Jerry Mason, the editor of Argosy , in 1949