tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856124774587570334.post1534373323111547817..comments2024-02-18T03:51:09.477-08:00Comments on TRUE PULP FICTION: BELLOW BILL WILLIAMS: a preliminary checklistSamuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856124774587570334.post-42552328371807324432021-03-15T05:08:16.655-07:002021-03-15T05:08:16.655-07:00Such a good Post!!, Thanks for sharing used full i...Such a good Post!!, Thanks for sharing used full information,<br /><a href="https://gurukrupaengineering.com/bellow-cover.php" rel="nofollow">Bellow cover supplier</a><br />SUPRIYAKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04486396114600120065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856124774587570334.post-91695061182645731162016-02-25T09:22:58.010-08:002016-02-25T09:22:58.010-08:00Thanks for the clarification, Sai! I felt pretty s...Thanks for the clarification, Sai! I felt pretty sure about "Accomplice" but not 100%, and now I'll be grabbing that issue soon. <br /><br />Sai and Walker: My take on Argosy is that it pitched itself as a family pulp despite the frequent blood and thunder. "Argonotes" often printed letters from wives turned onto Argosy by their husbands, or stories of whole families sharing an issue. Argosy also doesn't seem to have pandered to "Men" the way Blue Book and Short Stories sometimes did on their covers or spines. It and the Munsey chain were also clearly in their death throes by mid-1940, when they started flailing about with different cover formats, etc., which was well before Americans went off to war. My hunch remains that Argosy and Detective Fiction Weekly suffered from and were to an extent sacrificed to Munsey's ill-conceived "Red Star" brand expansion. You could see the opposite phenomenon at Popular Publications during the war, when they arguably sacrificed other titles or their page counts to build Adventure back up to 160 pages a month for a while. As for your speculations on the readerships of the rest of the "big 4," I defer to your deeper reading into all of them.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856124774587570334.post-62310065348729662952016-02-25T04:52:06.472-08:002016-02-25T04:52:06.472-08:00Interesting theory Sai and one that I sort of agre...Interesting theory Sai and one that I sort of agree with. We know that Arthur Sullivant Hoffman, the editor of ADVENTURE up to 1927, often talked about wanting to appeal more to professional men: doctors, businessmen, attorneys, etc. BLUE BOOK and SHORT STORIES always impressed me as aiming for a more mature readership than ARGOSY. Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1856124774587570334.post-6098302603866178502016-02-24T22:05:45.628-08:002016-02-24T22:05:45.628-08:00The good news for you is that these two are Bellow...The good news for you is that these two are Bellow Bill stories too.<br /><br />"The Stuff of Empire," July 9, 1932<br />"The Accomplice," July 22, 1933<br /><br />The better news is that any issue of Argosy in the 1930s is fun. The serials make life hard, because you can never get a long run together easily, but the short stories and novelettes make up for them, usually.<br /><br />I always thought the readership of Argosy was slanted towards teens and young adults. Adventure readers on the other hand, were professionals who loved the outdoors. Blue Book readers were solid white collar employees and their families that wanted a little escapist literature and appreciated great art. Short Stories readers were working class men who read stories in their spare time, maybe even on the job during breaks. <br /><br />Which is also my theory for why Argosy was most affected when World War 2 came around. Most of the readers went away either to work early or to be soldiers. And of the big 4 I listed above, it was the earliest to shutdown as a pulp in 1943.<br /><br />Of course, this is all my imagination, and I could be completely off the mark here.<br />Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.com