"Pulp Magazines (or just" Pulps ") are inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 to the 1950s The Pulps were printed on cheap paper with jagged edges, not trimmed.
The term derives from cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on top quality paper were called "Glossies" or "Slicks".In its first decades, Pulps were sold mostly at the price of ten cents (dollar) for magazine while competing Slicks were 25 cents each. Pulps were successors of the Dreadfuls, penny, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century While many respected writers have written for Pulp magazines, they are most remembered for his sinister stories, violent and sexy. And the sensational art of its internal covers and illustrations.
