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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. Pulps were printed on cheap paper with ragged, untrimmed edges.
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(Did you mean a [[Pulp|British fanzine]], or a [[Pulp (Weinberg)|Robert Weinberg fanzine]]?)
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The '''pulps''' were magazines printed on cheap wood-pulp paper. Such [[prozines]] dominated [[SF]] publishing from its beginnings through the 1940s, largely dying out over the ’50s. The format was characterized by unsophisticated and usually formulaic adventure stories. Nonetheless, modern SF grew from those pulp beginnings.
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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. Pulps were printed on cheap paper with ragged, untrimmed edges.
  
 
Some pulps, like ''[[Argosy]]'' ran a variety of stories by different authors.  Other pulps, like ''[[The Shadow]]'' or ''[[Doc Savage]]'', specialized in the exploits of a specific characters.
 
Some pulps, like ''[[Argosy]]'' ran a variety of stories by different authors.  Other pulps, like ''[[The Shadow]]'' or ''[[Doc Savage]]'', specialized in the exploits of a specific characters.
  
 
{{link | website=https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive | text=Internet Archive pulp magazine archive}} (vast)
 
{{link | website=https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive | text=Internet Archive pulp magazine archive}} (vast)
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{{link | website=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pulp | text=SF Encyclopedia entry}}
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Revision as of 20:52, 6 October 2020

(Did you mean a British fanzine, or a Robert Weinberg fanzine?)


The pulps were magazines printed on cheap wood-pulp paper. Such prozines dominated SF publishing from its beginnings through the 1940s, largely dying out over the ’50s. The format was characterized by unsophisticated and usually formulaic adventure stories. Nonetheless, modern SF grew from those pulp beginnings.

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. Pulps were printed on cheap paper with ragged, untrimmed edges.

Some pulps, like Argosy ran a variety of stories by different authors. Other pulps, like The Shadow or Doc Savage, specialized in the exploits of a specific characters.

Internet Archive pulp magazine archive (vast)

SF Encyclopedia entry



Publishing