In their first decades, pulps were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks were 25 cents apiece.

The 1957 liquidation of the American News Company, then the primary distributor of pulp magazines, has sometimes been taken as marking the end of the " pulp era "; by that date, many of the famous pulps of the previous generation, including Black Mask, The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Weird Tales, were defunct.

The collapse of the pulp industry changed the landscape of publishing because pulps were the single largest sales outlet for short stories.

< ref name =" time ">" if it were distinguished for nothing else, " Adventure " would stand apart from rival " pulps ".... because it was once entirely illustrated by Rockwell Kent .."

Western novels, films and pulps gave birth to Western comics, which were very popular, particularly from the late 1940s until circa 1967, when the comics began to turn to reprints.

Later, many hardboiled novels were published by houses specializing in paperback originals, also colloquially known as " pulps.

Two comics were launched at the same time: Jungle Comics and Planet Comics ; both were published monthly, whereas Planet Stories was quarterly, and it is quite likely that the success of the comics funded the early issues of the pulps.

Some pulps, such as Planet Stories and Startling Stories, were primarily dedicated to publishing planetary romances, while existing fantasy pulps like Weird Tales began to publish science fiction romances next to their usual horror and sword and sorcery fare.

Like other such pulps of the day, there were short backup stories by other authors.

Once Wright determined that such detailed work would transfer successfully to relatively rough paper the magazine used ( they were called " pulps " for a reason ), he began buying Finlay's work.

These were the earliest examples of bondage cover art images, and ran from about 1910 ( when the pulps became more common ) until roughly 1975 ( when the " Men's adventure " type of magazines started to disappear ).

Some were merely sleazy, but others were in a tough, hard-boiled style that seemed somehow more knowing and more contemporary than that of the surviving pulps.

One retrospective summed up the genre as, " The vast majority of these lesbian novels were written by men, designed to fulfill straight men's fantasies ... But perhaps 40 or 50 lesbian ( pulp ) novels were written by women, and were also good enough to becoming underground classics ... The pulps also reached isolated, small-town lesbians who could read them and see that they were not the only lesbians in the world.

Michael Bronski, the editor of an anthology of gay pulp writing, notes in his introduction, " Gay pulp is not an exact term, and it is used somewhat loosely to refer to a variety of books that had very different origins and markets " People often use the term to refer to the " classic " gay pulps that were produced before about 1970, but it may also be used to refer to the gay erotica or pornography in paperback book or digest magazine form produced since that date.

Some were merely sleazy, but others were in a tough, hard-boiled style that seemed somehow more knowing and more contemporary than that of the surviving pulps.

His paperback cover illustrations were as diverse as his work for the pulps.

Pulp magazines ( often referred to as " the pulps ") are inexpensive fiction magazines published from 1896 through the 1950s.

Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines are best remembered for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art.

Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of " hero pulps "; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Phantom Detective.

Street and Smith's next innovation was the introduction of specialized genre pulps, each magazine focusing on a genre such as detective stories, romance, etc.

At their peak of popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, the most successful pulps could sell up to one million copies per issue.

The Second World War paper shortages had a serious impact on pulp production, starting a steady rise in costs and the decline of the pulps.

The American Old West was a mainstay genre of early turn of the 19th to 20th century novels as well as later pulp magazines, and lasted longest of all the traditional pulps.

In many ways, the later men's adventure (" the sweats ") was the replacement of pulps.

A comparative analysis of antioxidant potency among a variety of frozen juice pulps was carried out, including the acerola fruit.

Among the eleven fruits ' pulps tested, acerola was the highest-scoring domestic fruit, meaning it had the most antioxidant potency, with a TEAC ( Trolox equivalent antioxidant activity ) score of 53. 2 mmol g.

In 1910 Street and Smith converted two of their nickel weeklies, New Tip Top Weekly and Top Notch Magazine, into pulps ; in 1915, Nick Carter Stories, itself a replacement for the New Nick Carter Weekly, morphed into Detective Story Magazine, and in 1919, New Buffalo Bill Weekly became Western Story Magazine.

The flesh is segmented and acidic, varying in color depending on the cultivars, which include white, pink and red pulps of varying sweetness.

As depicted in the pulps, The Shadow wore a black slouch hat and a black, crimson-lined cloak with an upturned collar over a standard black business suit.

For the first half of The Shadow's tenure in the pulps, his past and identity are ambiguous, supposedly an intentional decision on Gibson's part.

* Margo Lane, a socialite created for the radio drama and later introduced into the pulps.

In contrast to the pulps The Shadow radio drama limited the cast of major characters to The Shadow, Commissioner Weston, and Margo Lane, the last of whom was created specifically for the radio series, as it was believed the abundance of agents would make it difficult to distinguish between characters.

The series disappeared from CBS airwaves on March 27, 1935, due to Street & Smith's insistence that the radio storyteller be completely replaced by the master crime-fighter described in Walter B. Gibson's ongoing pulps.

Her sudden, unexplained appearance in the pulps annoyed readers and generated a flurry of hate mail printed in The Shadow Magazines letters page.

The strip's story continuity was written by Walter B. Gibson, with plot lines adapted from the Shadow pulps, and the strip was illustrated by Vernon Greene.

He hit the theme about dying to defend your country, and you were ready to do it right then, without a second thought.

In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country ; but once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargareans, a neighbouring tribe.

Thirteen people were shot and killed, with another man later dying of his wounds.

By 1000 BC ancient civilizations were using technologies that formed the basis of the various branches of chemistry such as ; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze.

According to Dante, the prisoners were slowly starved to death and before dying Ugolino's children begged him to eat their bodies.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

Like so many other people, the Huns inflicted wounds on their live flesh as a sign of grief when their kinsmen were dying.

The main symptoms were a preoccupation with size, the consequent rise to absurd heights of the prices of large specimens, a habit of keeping red mullet in captivity, and the enjoyment of the highly specialized aesthetic experience induced by watching the color of the dying fish change.

When workers from the William Beardmore and Company Steel Works in Glasgow were dying from the large amounts of beer drunk to quench their thirst from the heat of the steel works, an alternative was sought.

However it never achieved the commercial success its sponsors had hoped for and signalled canals as an dying mode of transport in an age dominated by railways, which were quicker and often cheaper.

Considered apocryphal is the report that his dying words were νενίκηκάς με, Γαλιλαῖε, or Vicisti, Galilaee (" You have won, Galilean "), supposedly expressing his recognition that, with his death, Christianity would become the Empire's state religion.

Monastic communities were allowed to celebrate mass in private from 1209 onwards, and late in 1212 the viaticum for the dying was authorised.

It is estimated that more than 4, 000 Christians were killed in the conflict, with another 4, 000 dying of destitution.

When a 16-year-long civil war ended in 1992, Mozambique's health care system was devastated and one in ten women were dying in childbirth.

With writer Tom Pocock he was among the first British civilians to witness the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp at Belsen, where the remaining prisoners, too sick to be moved, were dying before his very eyes.

In the early 1990s, there was a rough consensus among industry analysts that the mainframe was a dying market as mainframe platforms were increasingly replaced by personal computer networks.

At the height of a second outbreak, the Plague of Cyprian ( 251 – 266 ), which may have been the same disease, 5, 000 people a day were said to be dying in Rome.

There were no imperial representatives present during the election, and Valentine had no opportunity to ratify his election with the emperor, as he was dead within five weeks, dying on 10 October 827.

With the aim of showing traditional Inuit life, Flaherty also staged some scenes, including the ending, where Allakariallak ( who acts the part of Nanook ) and his screen family were supposedly at risk of dying if they could not find or build shelter quickly enough.

In 1536, the French explorer Jacques Cartier, exploring the St. Lawrence River, used the local natives ' knowledge to save his men who were dying of scurvy.

... There were so many people being wounded every day, so many people dying, and it was hard for us to understand the position of the church hierarchy in refusing to condemn the contras.

At this point, 2 million people were dying from smallpox every year.

' James Harris MP, however, recorded that Lord Nugent had told him that Chatham's last words in the Lords were: ' If the Americans defend independence, they shall find me in their way ' and that his very last words ( spoken to his son ) were: ' Leave your dying father, and go to the defence of your country '.

Both the Eighth Crusade and Ninth Crusade were brief efforts that quickly ended in failure, with King Louis IX of France dying during the former.