Thrilling Adventures was a monthly American pulp magazine

Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines , also collectively known as pulp fiction, refers to inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, half an inch thick, and 128 pages long...

 from 1931 to 1943.

Thrilling Adventures was created by editor Leo Margulies

Leo Margulies

Leo Margulies was an American editor and publisher of science fiction and fantasy pulp magazines.- Career :...

 and was patterned after the pulp Adventure

Adventure (magazine)

Adventure magazine was first published in November 1910 as a monthly pulp magazine. Adventure went on become one of the most profitable and critically acclaimed of all the American pulp magazines...

. It was one of 16 pulps that Margulies founded that incorporated the adjective "Thrilling" in the title. (The company that published the Thrilling titles eventually changed its name to Thrilling Publications

Thrilling Publications

Thrilling Publications, aka Beacon Magazines , Better Publications and Standard Magazines , was a pulp magazine publisher run by Ned Pines, publishing such titles as Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories.A native of Malden, Massachusetts, Pines became the president of Pines Publications...

.)

Thrilling Adventures published fictional stories, mostly of the adventure and sports genres. The first edition of Thrilling Adventures was published in December 1931. It continued as a monthly until 1943, when it was reduced to a bimonthly, and the final issue was the November 1943 edition.