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The wolf pulp fiction5/25/2023 Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of "hero pulps" pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Phantom Detective. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines are often remembered for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art. Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century. Pulp were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks were 25 cents apiece. ![]() Magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. The earliest pulp stories were printed in pulp magazines from 1896 through the 1950s. ![]() Pulp were most often priced at ten cents per mag ![]() Pulp fiction can be characterized as "fast-paced, plot-oriented storytelling of a linear nature with clearly defined, larger than life protagonists and antagonists, creative descriptions, clever use of turns of phrase and other aspects of writing that add to the intensity and pacing of the story."
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