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Pulp magazineWhat is a Pulp Magazine?Pulp magazines, often called simply "the pulps", were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. The first "pulp" is considered to be Frank Munsey's revamped Argosy Magazine of 1896. Most of the few pulps still thriving today are science fiction (SF) or mystery magazines. The name comes from the cheap woodpulp paper on which they were printed. Magazines printed on better paper and usually offering content more oriented towards family reading were often called "slicks." Pulps were the successor to the "penny dreadfuls" and "dime novels" of the nineteenth century. Though many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines are perhaps best remembered for the fast-paced, lurid, sensationalistic and exploitive stories often featured in their pages. As well, the emphasis on series characters solidified that trend in popular culture; magazines featuring novel-length stories of heroic characters, like The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Phantom Detective, paved the way for comic books. Pulp covers were famous for their half-dressed damsels in distress, usually awaiting a rescuing hero. Pulp magazines can be categorized into the following genres:
Well-known authors who wrote for the pulps include:
in pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Black Mask. The format eventually declined (most dramatically in the 1950s) with rising paper costs, competition from comic books, television, and the paperback novel, although it is still in use for some lengthy serials, like the German SF weekly Perry Rhodan (over 2200 issues as of 2003). The genre also gave name to the movie Pulp Fiction.
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