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Pulp Fiction: Pulp Magazine, Dime Novel, Lesbian Pulp Fiction, Hard Case Crime, George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781156792476
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Chapters: Pulp Magazine, Dime Novel, Lesbian Pulp Fiction, Hard Case Crime, George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection, Gay Male Pulp Fiction, the Sergeant, Raffles, Penny Dreadful, Edisonade, Badger Books, Stalag Fiction, Richard Blade, Dime Western, Khlit the Cossack, Elmer Brown Mason. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 95. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps"), also collectively known as pulp fiction, were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were published from 1896 through the 1950s. The typical pulp magazine was seven inches wide by ten inches high, a half an inch thick, and 128 pages long. Pulps were printed on cheap paper with ragged, untrimmed edges. In fact, the name pulp comes from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on better paper were called "glossies" or "slicks." In their first decades, they were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks were 25 cents apiece. Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the nineteenth century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines are best remembered for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of "hero pulps"; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Phantom Detective. Pulp covers, printed in color on higher-quality (slick) paper, were famous for their half-dressed damsels in distress, usually awaiting a rescuing hero. Cover art played a major part in the marketing of pulp magazines, and a number of the most successful cover artists became as popular as the authors featu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22977
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