One of the first "pulp" magazines—so named because it was printed on cheap, grainy wood-pulp paper—True Detective helped pioneer the American crime story genre in the 1920s. The monthly periodical, which started life as True...

Pulp magazines were a cheap form of popular entertainment that emerged just before the dawn of the twentieth century, grew to immense popularity during the 1930s, and withered away by the early 1950s. Sold for 10 to 25 cents each and chocked full of...

Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. The term pulp fiction can also refer to mass market paperbacks since the...

Chicago Pulp magazine doesn't follow anyone's rules: Its Church Beat column reviews services at chicago churches and rates them with one to four crosses. Its February issue was an oversize calendar that the founders had to hand deliver to Chicago subscribers. Contradicting its...

[HEADNOTE ] In the 1940s, federal restrictions on the importation of U.S. publications spurred the growth of a Canadian pulp magazine industry, one branch of which was true crime. These cheap consumables, adorned with bawdy and violent cover imagery as well as sexually...