Argosy Year 1964 Magazine Back Issues
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Argosy Jan 1964
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Argosy January 1964 Features
Five Miles From Texas: World's Richest Treasure Island!
Flying's Greatest Mystery Amelia Earhart Found
Be A Twilight Tycoon: Millions For Moonlighters!
Bloodier Than The Mafia: Slaughter On Sardinia
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Argosy Mar 1964
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Argosy March 1964 Features
Make A Million In Australia-Land Of Adventure
New Clues To The Fabulous Treasure Of Mazatlan
How To Separate The Girls From The Buoys
Brand-New: Brett Halliday's Mystery Thriller A Redhead For Mike Shayne
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Argosy Apr 1964
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Argosy April 1964 Features
Adventure On A Shoestring: Around The World On A Dollar A Day!
Millions In Treasure Find Jim Bowie's Mine!
Baseball's Hottest Story: Can Yogi Berra Handle The Yanks?
World's Wackiest Flight London To Australia-In Seven Months!
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Argosy May 1964
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Argosy May 1964 Features
The Low-Water River Runners
Gold In Panama! Ten Worst Speed Traps!
$3.95 Frank Kane Mystery Book Bonus!
Buxom Beauties Of Baja!
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Argosy Jun 1964
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Argosy June 1964 Features
New Treasure Find: Mounds Of INCA Gold!
The B-52 That Lost Its Tail
Exposed: The Tow-Car Racket!
How The Gooney Birds Beat The Navy
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Argosy Jul 1964
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Argosy July 1964 Features
Two Brand-New Novels Worth $8.25
Shoot To Kill-Latest Mike Shayne Thriller
Desperation Valley-Exciting Western By John Hunter
Miracle From The Jungle The Witch Doctor's Cancer Cure
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Argosy Sep 1964
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Argosy September 1964 Features
Willie Mays Baseball's First Negro Manager?
Located, Photographed, But Still Untouched A Planeload Of Gold
Get More Money For Your Car
Special 16-Page Section Pete Kuhlhoff's Guide To The 1965 Guns
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Argosy Oct 1964
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Argosy October 1964 Features
How To Make Your First Million/LBJ: Outdoor
Sportsman/Tommy Harmon Picks The 1964 All
Americans/How To Get A Houseboat-Almost Free
$4.95-Best Selling Book-Von Ryan's Express
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Argosy Dec 1964
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Argosy December 1964 Features
Exclusive: Hemingway And The Club Fighters
Complete Price Guide For The 1965 Cars
They Gave Me A Jungle Harem
$$$rommel's Sunken Millions$$$
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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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