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Argosy Jan 1965
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Argosy January 1965

Features
New Geoffrey Household
12 Exciting Stories
January 1965

 


Argosy Feb 1965
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Argosy February 1965

Features
Giant Boating Section Including '65 Outboards
95 Million In U.S. Shallow - Water Treasure!
The Mad Swede U.N.'s Daredevil Soldier - Adventures
$4.50 Book Bonus Death Down Deep By Hugh Marlowe

 


Argosy Mar 1965
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Argosy March 1965

Features
6 Special Vacations By Car
In Russia, Alaska, Canada & The U.S.
$5.75 Book Bonus Target By William Wister Haines
Diamonds! Venezuela's New Gem Strike

 


Argosy Apr 1965
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Argosy April 1965

Features
Special-Fishing Hot Spots!
Secret Code Map To World's Richest Treasure
This Year's Island Paradise
Shotgun For Sharks

 


Argosy May 1965
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Argosy May 1965

Features
A Dozen Dramatic Stories
Starring A New H.E. Bates
May 1965

 


Argosy Jun 1965
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Argosy June 1965

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

 


Argosy Jul 1965
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Argosy July 1965

Features
Trailer Round The World
Girls Of The Roaring Twenties
Backyard Vacations Barbecue Tips From LBJ's
Expert Pools Under $500 Clambakes Anywhere

 


Argosy Aug 1965
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Argosy August 1965

Features
That Weird War!
An Argosy Editor's Uncensored Report From The Vietnam Battlefront
America's Hottest New Gold Strike
High Citadel $4.95 Best-Seller

 


Argosy Sep 1965
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Argosy September 1965

Features
Kuhlhoff's Guns Special Section For Hunters And Collectors
Space Visitors They've Already Been Here!
Eyewitness Report We Saw Custer's Last Stand!
Billions In Gold We'll Tell Where It Is- Touch It If You Dare

 


Argosy Oct 1965
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Argosy October 1965

Features
Murder How You Can Get Away With It!
Pro-Football Tom Harmon Picks The 1965 All-Americans
Hong Kong It's Better, Prettier, And Cheaper There
Kuhlhoff's New Guns-'66 Plus Crazy Hunting Inventions

 


Argosy Nov 1965
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Argosy November 1965

Features
I Know Who Killed My Wife! Dr. Sam Sheppard
New Clues To The Gold Pit
Plus Multi-Million Treasure Section
Pro Football Suicide Squad

 

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The 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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