Pulp magazine
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Pulp magazines, also called "the pulps", were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955. The word pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines
Cover of the pulp magazine Spicy Detective Stories vol. 2, #6 (April 1935) featuring "Bullet from Nowhere" by Robert Leslie Bellem
Planet Stories, a science fiction pulp published between 1939 and 1955
November 1927 issue of Black Mask, featuring The Continental Op
Cover of the pulp magazine Dime Mystery Book Magazine, January 1933
Dime novel
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The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term
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…128 pages long, 7 by 10 in (18 by 25 cm), and 0.5 in (1.3 cm) thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and some of the short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their…
Cover of Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier by Edward S. Ellis (1860)
Cover of Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860)
The New Dime Novel Series introduced color covers but reprinted stories from the original series
Old Sleuth Library, 1888