Argosy (magazine)
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Argosy was an American magazine, founded in 1882 as The Golden Argosy, a children's weekly, edited by Frank Munsey and published by E. G. Rideout. Munsey took over as publisher when Rideout went bankr
Cover of the April 1906 issue
Frank Munsey
Cover of The Golden Argosy for May 19, 1883, featuring the first installment of Hector's Inheritance by Horatio Alger
Cover of the August 15, 1925 issue
Slick (magazine format)
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A slick magazine is a magazine printed on smooth, high-quality glossy paper. The term may have come into use in the 1930s, and was used to distinguish these magazines from pulp magazines, which were p
Argosy (magazine)
…including sensational non-fiction, it was sold that year to Popular Publications, another pulp magazine publisher. Popular converted it from pulp to slick format, and initially attempted to make it a fiction-only magazine, but gave up on this within a year. Instead, it became a men's magazine, carrying fiction…
A woman reading a "slick" magazine