![]() ![]() ![]() It might never have happened if not for one author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, who turned the smaller, general interest pulp field into a wide-open extravaganza of high adventure and bizarre new vistas in 1912-sixteen years after the modest start with Argosy.īurroughs was born in Chicago in 1875. The pulps didn’t survive the 1950s, but the reading habits they created did-as did the genres they fixed into the popular imagination. They made reading stories of wild adventures, Western action, granite-jawed private eyes, shadowy superheroes, and the new worlds of science fiction and fantasy into popular pastimes. More pulp magazines followed, and by the 1920s, they had changed the way people across the country consumed fiction. Each issue delivered a thick stack of stories printed on low-cost paper. The first pulp magazine was Argosy, which changed to an all-fiction format in 1896. ![]()
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