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Argosy Jan 1900
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Argosy January 1900 Features
An African Secret Complete In This Issue
The Peterson One Of The Two Oldest Magazines In America
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy Mar 1900
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Argosy # 4, March 1900 Features
A Tangle Of Trails Complete In This Issue
The Peterson, One Of The Two Oldest Magazine
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy Apr 1900
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Argosy April 1900 Features
Under The Emperor Complete In This Issue
The Peterson One Of The Two Oldest Magazines In America
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy May 1900
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Argosy May 1900 Features
A Cast Of Fate Complete In This Issue
The Peterson One Of The Two Oldest Magazines In America
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy Jun 1900
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Argosy June 1900 Features
Shot Into Wonderland Complete In This Issue
The Peterson One Of The Two Oldest Magazines In America
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy Jul 1900
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Argosy July 1900 Features
When York Was King Complete In This Issue
The Peterson One Of The Two Oldest Magazines In America
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy Aug 1900
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Argosy August 1900 Features
The Theft Of A God Complete In This Issue
The Peterson One Of The Two Oldest Magazines In America
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy Sep 1900
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Argosy September 1900 Features
On The Trail Of A Traitor Complete In This Issue
The Peterson One Of The Two Oldest Magazines In America
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy Oct 1900
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Argosy October 1900 Features
In The Forbidden City Begins In This Issue
The Peterson One Of The Two Oldest Magazines In America
Has Been Bought By Mr. Munsey And Has Been Merged With The Argosy
Ten Cents A Copy-Yearly Subscriptions One Dollar Frank A Munsey Publisher III Fift Avenue NewYork
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Argosy Nov 1900
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Argosy November 1900 Features
An Eye For An Eye Begins In This Issue
The Argosy Is Growing Every Month In Circulation
A Publication Never Grows In Circulation Without Cause
The Cause Of The Present Growth With The Argosy Is Merit And Nothing But Merit.
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Argosy Dec 1900
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Argosy December 1900 Features
Two New Serials Begin In This Issue
A Complete Novel The Prize Of Strategy
Crowded From Cover To Cover With Rattling Good, Stories.
Frank A Munsey III Fifth Ave New York
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1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1990 | 1991 | 2013The Argosy was the first pulp magazine and progenitor of an entire medium. It did not begin as a pulp, however, but as a weekly "story paper" titled The Golden Argosy, consisting of youth-oriented fiction and "rags to riches" tales by the likes of Horatio Alger, Jr. and Edward S. Ellis. It was the brainchild of Frank Andrew Munsey, a Western Union telegraph manager who dreamed "great dreams to the tune of the printing-press."
Munsey moved to New York City in September 1882. Following several months of financial hardships and entrepreneurial uncertainty, he published the first issue of The Golden Argosy (December 9, 1882). After several years, the drawbacks of producing a paper specifically for juvenile readers led Munsey to rethink his targeted audience. Juvenile audiences continuously outgrew the medium, and they lacked disposable incomes of their own that would attract advertisers.
Following this reasoning, the all-new Argosy appeared in October 1896; the magazine was now intended for an adult audience, and was produced on less-expensive pulpwood paper, allowing for a substantial increase in page numbers and content. This new type of periodical, the pulp magazine, was a runaway success, and within ten years Argosy's circulation had surpassed 500,000 a month. Over the next several decades, other Munsey titles were incorporated into Argosy, such as Railroad Man's Magazine in 1919, and All-Story Weekly in 1920.
Argosy was a showcase for popular fiction of every genre imaginable. Western, romance, adventure, war, crime, and science-fiction stories all found their home in Argosy. Argosy published the works of popular pulp authors such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Max Brand, Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson, H. Bedford Jones, Fred MacIssac, and scores of others.
In the years and months preceding Pearl Harbor, Argosy shed its all-fiction persona, and began to incorporate "real-life" articles, such as those predicting German attacks on New York or detailing Japanese atrocities in occupied China. In 1942, Argosy was sold to Popular Publications, which also owned Argosy's chief rival, Adventure; an action that resulted in further editorial augmentations.
Over the course of the late 1940s and early 1950s, Argosy became a "men's" magazine, and the quality of its fiction diminished. The title continued as a general interest periodical through the 1960s and 70s, with special "annual" issues dedicated to topics such as Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle, and UFOs. Argosy finally ceased publication in 1979, ninety-seven years after its inception.
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