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Argosy (magazine)

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Argosy, later titled The Argosy and Argosy All-Story Weekly, was an American pulp magazine from 1882 through 1978, published by Frank Munsey. [1]

81 relations: A Princess of Mars, A. Merritt, Adventure fiction, Albert Payson Terhune, Alfred Burdon Ellis, Altus Press, Amazing Stories, Augusta, Maine, Borden Chase, C. S. Forester, Charles Alden Seltzer, Clarence E. Mulford, Cornell Woolrich, Crime fiction, Dallas, Dime novel, Dr. Kildare, E. E. Smith, Edgar Franklin Wittmack, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edward S. Ellis, Ellis Parker Butler, Erle Stanley Gardner, Frank Munsey, French Foreign Legion, Genre fiction, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Gordon MacCreagh, H. Bedford-Jones, Harry Castlemon, Harry Stephen Keeler, HathiTrust, Heritage Auctions, Horatio Alger, Hugh Pendexter, Jack Kirby, James A. Owen, John Carter of Mars, Johnston McCulley, Lee Server, Lester Dent, Lewis Patrick Greene, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Max Brand, Men’s adventure, NBC, New York City, Norbert Davis, Otis Adelbert Kline, P. G. Wodehouse, ..., Perley Poore Sheehan, Perry Mason, Popular Publications, Pulp magazine, Ray Cummings, Raymond S. Spears, Receivership, Rex Stout, Robert E. Howard, Roger Sherman Hoar, Science fiction, Softcore pornography, Stockbroker, Street Code, Swashbuckler, Tarzan, The Court of Last Resort, The Gods of Mars, The New Yorker, The Skylark of Space, Theodore Roscoe, Tod Robbins, Tom Curry (writer), True crime, Upton Sinclair, Walt Coburn, Western (genre), William F. Nolan, William Taylor Adams, Zane Grey, Zorro. Expand index (31 more) »

A Princess of Mars

A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series.

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A. Merritt

Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884 – August 21, 1943) – known by his byline, A. Merritt – was an American Sunday magazine editor and a writer of fantastic fiction.

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Adventure fiction

Adventure fiction is fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

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Albert Payson Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 – February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist.

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Alfred Burdon Ellis

Alfred Burdon Ellis (1852–1894) was a British Army officer and ethnographer, known for his writings on West Africa.

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Altus Press

Altus Press is a publisher of works primarily related to the pulp magazines from the 1910s to the 1950s.

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Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing.

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Augusta, Maine

Augusta is the state capital of the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Kennebec County.

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Borden Chase

Borden Chase (January 11, 1900 – March 8, 1971) was an American writer.

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C. S. Forester

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars.

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Charles Alden Seltzer

Charles Alden Seltzer (August 15, 1875 – February 9, 1942) was an American writer.

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Clarence E. Mulford

Clarence Edward Mulford (3 February 1883 – 10 May 1956) was the creator of the character Hopalong Cassidy and who wrote many works of fiction and nonfiction.

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Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote using the name Cornell Woolrich, and sometimes the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Dime novel

The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions.

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Dr. Kildare

Dr. James Kildare is a fictional American medical doctor character, originally created in the 1930s by the author Frederick Schiller Faust under the pen name Max Brand. Shortly after the character's first appearance in a magazine story, Paramount Pictures used the story and character as the basis for the 1937 film Internes Can't Take Money. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) subsequently acquired the rights and featured Kildare as the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, several of which were co-written by Faust (as Max Brand), who also continued to write magazine stories and novels about the character until the early 1940s. DVDtalk.com, Mar. 16, 2014, accessed Mar. 29, 2015. The Kildare character was later featured in an early 1950s radio series,. digitaldeliftp.com, accessed Mar. 29, 2015. a 1960s television series,Mcneil, Alex. Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present - Revised Edition. Penguin Books, 1996, p. 225.. a comic book, politedissent.com, May 28, 2012, accessed Mar. 29, 2015. and comic strip. The Comics Kingdom Blog, comicskingdom.com, Oct. 24, 2012, accessed Mar. 29, 2015. based on the 1960s TV show, and a short-lived second 1970s television series., TVguide.com, accessed Mar. 29, 2015. Univ. Press of New England, 2006, p. 315-335..

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E. E. Smith

Edward Elmer Smith (also E. E. Smith, E. E. Smith, Ph.D., E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, or—to his family—Ted; May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series.

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Edgar Franklin Wittmack

Edgar Franklin Wittmack (1894–1956) was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.

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Edward S. Ellis

Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine.

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Ellis Parker Butler

Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author.

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author.

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Frank Munsey

Frank Andrew Munsey (21 August 1854 – 22 December 1925) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and author.

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French Foreign Legion

The French Foreign Legion (Légion étrangère) (FFL; Légion étrangère, L.É.) is a military service branch of the French Army established in 1831.

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Genre fiction

Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is plot-driven fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.

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Gertrude Barrows Bennett

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction.

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Gordon MacCreagh

Gordon MacCreagh (1886 in Perth, IndianaEllis, Doug. The Best of Adventure, Volume 2 - 1913-1914. Black Dog Books, 2012. (p.13,18-9). – 1953) was an American writer.

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H. Bedford-Jones

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones (1887–1949) was a Canadian historical, adventure fantasy, science fiction, crime and Western writer who became a naturalized United States citizen in 1908.

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Harry Castlemon

Charles Austin Fosdick (September 6, 1842 – August 22, 1915), better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys.

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Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler (November 3, 1890 – January 22, 1967) was a prolific but little-known American author of mysteries and science fiction.

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HathiTrust

HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.

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Heritage Auctions

Heritage Auctions is an auction house established in 1976 in Dallas, Texas.

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Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty.

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Hugh Pendexter

Hugh Pendexter (1875-1940) was an American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.

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Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.

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James A. Owen

James A. Owen is an American comic book illustrator, publisher and writer.

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John Carter of Mars

John Carter of Mars is a fictional Virginian—a veteran of the American Civil War—transported to Mars and the initial protagonist of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom stories.

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Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro.

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Lee Server

Lee Server is an American writer.

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Lester Dent

Lester Dent (October 12, 1904 – March 11, 1959) was an American pulp-fiction author, best known as the creator and main author of the series of novels about the scientist and adventurer Doc Savage.

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Lewis Patrick Greene

Lewis Patrick Greene (1891-1971), who usually wrote under the name L. Patrick Greene, was an English writer of adventure stories.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie,Keating, H.R.F., The Bedside Companion to Crime.

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Max Brand

Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand.

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Men’s adventure

Men's adventure is a genre of magazine that was published in the United States from the 1940s until the early 1970s.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norbert Davis

Norbert Harrison Davis (April 18, 1909 - July 28, 1949) was an American crime fiction author.

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Otis Adelbert Kline

Otis Adelbert Kline (July 1, 1891 – October 24, 1946) born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was a songwriter, an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Perley Poore Sheehan

Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States – 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre, California, United States) was an American film writer, novelist and film director.

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Perry Mason

Perry Mason is an American fictional character, a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner.

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Popular Publications

Popular Publications was one of the largest publishers of pulp magazines during its existence, at one point publishing 42 different titles per month.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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Ray Cummings

Ray Cummings (born Raymond King Cummings) (August 30, 1887 – January 23, 1957) was an American author of science fiction literature and comic books.

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Raymond S. Spears

Raymond S. Spears (1876–1950) was an author of western and adventure stories.

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Receivership

In law, receivership is a situation in which an institution or enterprise is held by a receiver—a person "placed in the custodial responsibility for the property of others, including tangible and intangible assets and rights"—especially in cases where a company cannot meet financial obligations or enters bankruptcy.

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Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.

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Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.

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Roger Sherman Hoar

Roger Sherman Hoar (April 8, 1887 – October 10, 1963) was an American state senator and assistant Attorney General, for the state of Massachusetts.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Softcore pornography

Softcore pornography or softcore porn is commercial still photography or film that has a pornographic or erotic component.

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Stockbroker

A stockbroker is a regulated professional individual, usually associated with a brokerage firm or broker-dealer, who buys and sells stocks and other securities for both retail and institutional clients through a stock exchange or over the counter in return for a fee or commission.

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Street Code

Street Code is both the short, ten page autobiographical comic story and the 2009 mini-comic by influential writer-artist Jack Kirby.

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Swashbuckler

A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword, acrobatics and chivalric ideals.

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Tarzan

Tarzan (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.

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The Court of Last Resort

The Court of Last Resort is an American television dramatized court show which aired October 4, 1957 – April 11, 1958, on NBC.

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The Gods of Mars

The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second of his Barsoom series.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Skylark of Space

The Skylark of Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Edward E. "Doc" Smith, written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate.

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Theodore Roscoe

Theodore Roscoe (1906–1992) was an American biographer and writer of adventure, fantasy novels and stories.

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Tod Robbins

Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins (1888–1949), billed as C.A Robbins and better known as Tod Robbins, was an American author of horror and mystery fiction, particularly novels and short story collections.

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Tom Curry (writer)

Thomas Albert Curry (1900–1976) was an American pulp fiction writer who began writing crime and detective stories but went on to become one of the more prolific western writers in the genre.

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True crime

True crime is a non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.

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Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres.

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Walt Coburn

Walt Coburn (1889–1971) was an American writer of Westerns.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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William F. Nolan

William Francis Nolan (born March 6, 1928) is an American author, who has written hundreds of stories in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime fiction genres.

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William Taylor Adams

William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

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Zane Grey

Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier.

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Zorro

Zorro (Spanish for "Fox") is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, and appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles during the era of Spanish California (1769–1821).

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argosy_(magazine)

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