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Argosy Jan 1959
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Argosy January 1959 Features
Pictures From The Grave: The Day We Lost Poland
Tony Zale: The Lowdown On Our Cheese Champs
Las Vegas On A Shoestring
Arthur Godfrey Blasts Off: Are We Losing Control Of The Skies?
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Argosy Feb 1959
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Argosy February 1959 Features
The Tiki Curse Incredible South Sea Adventure On A Raft
Red Sports Red Women Red Tape Man's-Eye View Of Moscow
Gunsmoke's James Arness Why He Outdraws Them All
The Largest Selling Fiction-Fact Magazine For Men
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Argosy Apr 1959
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Argosy April 1959 Features
Two-Gun Cohen: Fabulous Soldier Of Fortune
The Largest Selling Fiction-Fact Magazine For Men
Those Slap-Happy Marine Paratroopers Are Here Again!
Panic In The Pink House By Robert Fuller
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Argosy May 1959
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Argosy May 1959 Features
Clues To $30,000,000 In Buried Treasure
I Bummed My Way Through Africa!
The Largest Selling Fiction-Fact Magazine For Men
I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight!
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Argosy Jun 1959
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Argosy June 1959 Features
Pearls, Girls And Trade Winds - The Best Job In The World
Mel Allen And Frank Graham - The Mad Great Dizzy Dean
Four Great Stories Alter Pentecost Miller Humiston
Snafu At Pork Chop Hill
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Argosy Jul 1959
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Argosy July 1959 Features
Modern Buccaneer - The Miami Cop Who Tried To Take Haiti
Court Of Last Resort Flash - Ellis Fewell Freed
Amazon Adventure - Treasure Of The Golden Turtles
Roping Wild Elephants In India
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Argosy Aug 1959
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Argosy August 1959 Features
Wingate The Master Of Dirty Fighting
The 8 Isles Of Pleasure
First Look At Next Year's Guns
The Largest Selling Fiction-Fact Magazine For Men
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Argosy Sep 1959
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Argosy September 1959 Features
$25,000 Prize! Join The $250,000 Treasure Hunt
I Can Beat Ingo Rocky Marciano
Ten Bargain Paradises For Men
The Largest Selling Fiction-Fact Magazine For Men
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Argosy Oct 1959
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Argosy October 1959 Features
Million Dollar Idea Contest
A Month's Dream European Vacation For Two
Two Weeks In Romantic South America
Plus 1000 Exciting Prizes
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Argosy Nov 1959
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Argosy November 1959 Features
10 Brilliant Stories
Two Shillings And Sixpence
£500 Award For A New Short Story
H.E. Bates Paul Gallico - Gerald Kersh - Geoffrey Household
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Argosy Dec 1959
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Argosy December 1959 Features
You Can Still Enter Argosy's
Million Dollar Idea Contest Over 1,000 Prizes!
Bayou Buccaneer: I Captured A Freighter!
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me!
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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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