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Doc Savage (magazine)
''Doc Savage'' was an American pulp magazine that was published from 1933 to 1949 by Street & Smith. It was launched as a follow-up to the success of ''The Shadow'', a magazine Street & Smith had started in 1931, based around a single character; ''Doc Savage'''s lead character was a scientist and adventurer, rather than purely a detective. Lester Dent was hired to write the lead novels, almost all of which were published under the house name "Kenneth Robeson"; a few dozens of the novels were ghost-written by other writers, hired either by Dent or by Street & Smith. The magazine was successful, but was shut down in 1949 as part of Street & Smith's decision to leave the pulp magazine field completely. Publishing history Development In 1930, CBS began broadcasing ''The Detective Story Hour'', a radio program that used scripts from ''Detective Story Magazine'', a pulp magazine published by Street & Smith. In every episode the narrator, named The Shadow, spoke the line: "Who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulp Magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges. The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction in reference to run-of-the-mill, low-quality literature. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid, exploitative, and sensational subject matter, even though this was but a small part of what existed in the pulps. Successors of pulps include paperback books, digest magazines, and men's adventure magazines. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
