American pulp magazines
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American pulp magazines were inexpensive, mass-market fiction periodicals popular in the early to mid-20th century, known for their sensational stories and vividly illustrated covers across genres like adventure, science fiction, crime, and horror.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | pulp magazine ⓘ |
| businessModel |
newsstand sales
ⓘ
subscription sales ⓘ |
| businessTrend | decline after World War II ⓘ |
| causeOfDecline |
competition from television
ⓘ
rise of paperback books ⓘ rising production costs ⓘ |
| contrastWith |
literary journals
ⓘ
slick magazines ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| format |
digest-sized magazine
ⓘ
large-format magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
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crime fiction ⓘ detective fiction ⓘ fantasy ⓘ horror fiction ⓘ romance fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ sports stories ⓘ war stories ⓘ western fiction ⓘ |
| illustrationType |
interior line art
ⓘ
painted covers ⓘ |
| influenced |
American popular culture
ⓘ
comic books ⓘ film serials ⓘ paperback originals ⓘ radio adventure serials ⓘ |
| knownFor |
genre fiction
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sensational stories ⓘ vividly illustrated covers ⓘ |
| material | cheap wood-pulp paper ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle |
cliffhanger endings
ⓘ
fast-paced plots ⓘ |
| paperQuality | low-grade pulp paper ⓘ |
| peakPopularityPeriod |
early 20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| printingQuality | low-cost ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency |
biweekly
ⓘ
monthly ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
mass audience
ⓘ
working-class readers ⓘ |
| typicalContent |
serialized novels
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series characters ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| typicalPrice | inexpensive mass-market ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.