pulp magazine
publishing
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historical development
- In history of publishing: Nonprofessional types
…are met by the “pulp” and “comic” magazines. In 1896 Frank Munsey turned his Argosy into an all-fiction magazine using rough wood-pulp paper. The “dime novel” did not qualify for inexpensive postal rates in the United States, but the pulp magazine did, and so an industry was born. Pulps…
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science fiction
- In science fiction: Mass markets and juvenile science fiction
…the printing process, inexpensive “pulp” magazines began to deliver stories to a mass audience. During this period in the United States, “dime novels” (shoddily produced pamphlets that usually sold for a nickel) and boys’ adventure magazines proliferated. The stories distributed in these books and magazines, such as Luis Senarens’s…
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