Pulp Magazines

Frank A. Munsey is credited with inventing the pulp-magazine format in 1896 when he changed the Argosy’s contents to include nothing but fiction.  The traditional pulp magazine measured 10 inches by 7 inches, but came to be the term used for magazines printed on cheap paper manufactured from chemically treated wood pulp through a process developed in the early 1880’s.  With its thick pages, pulp magazines were usually quite bulky.  The cheaper paper and mass-distribution techniques allowed the early pulp magazines to attract more advertising; the cheaper prices in turn made these  pulp magazines available to the general public.  From a