The Argosy, Vol. 28 (1879)

This page is not a pulp magazine cover but a printed contents leaf from The Argosy, the British literary monthly edited by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It lists chapters of Called to the Rescue alongside short fiction by contributors including Charles W. Wood, Alice King, and F. E. M. Notley — the workaday infrastructure of Victorian popular fiction publishing. The Argosy (1865–1901) was a respectable story magazine, ancestor in spirit to the American Argosy Frank Munsey relaunched on wood-pulp paper in 1882–1896, the publication historians credit with inaugurating the pulp era proper. This contents page documents the serialized, miscellany format that Munsey would industrialize — and from which comic books eventually drew their anthology DNA.