Wiktionary
n. A magazine made with inexpensive paper and printing, containing shocking or sensationalist text fiction by low-paid writers.
WordNet
n. an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper [syn: pulp]
Wikipedia
Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") are inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 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. 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.
Usage examples of "pulp magazine".
In the 1930s Harry Truman had read lurid pulp magazine sf yarns of superweapons settling the hash of evil powers.
John Campbell helped his writers along with suggestions and brought them along to make Astounding the foremost science fiction pulp magazine of the time.
Hyped-up dude named Lloyd Underwood called him three-four weeks ago, said he was a pulp magazine collector.
A young devotee of the pulp magazine _Weird Tales_, he began corresponding with author H.
In these Twentieth Century pulp magazine lost race stories, there was a new time scale reaching back into the forgotten past, back to Atlantis and before that to completely unknown civilizations fully as old as the ancient Barsoomian high civilization on Mars.
I started on the mystery short story, wondering how science fiction would feel after having done so much routine pulp magazine fiction.
Filmed on location in Texas, Rene Zellweger portrayed the young schoolteacher who befriended eccentric pulp magazine writer Robert E.
I went home to drink beer, read a pulp magazine, and brood in solitude.
Just a week ago while going through my closet I came across an ancient pulp magazine with ragged edges, its cover missing, its pages yellow.
Then there was the elevator man, a broken man from Milwaukee, who seemed to sneer every time you called your floor, as though you were such a fool for choosing that particular floor, the elevator man who always had a tray of sandwiches in the elevator, and a pulp magazine.
The entire cast of characters could go through exactly the same kind of story again in next month's issue of the pulp magazine or in the sequel to the movie.
The following covers approximately 1600 of the 1800+ novels published so far during the life of Perry Rhodan, the German pulp magazine.
When it comes to quantity, no other pulp magazine comes close to Germany's Perry Rhodan.
Larry McLeod, who was the mailman during those years, reported that Marsten got four daily papers, The Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, and a pulp magazine called Amazing Stories.