The Argosy, Vol. 50 (1890): Table of Contents

This page is not a pulp cover but the contents leaf of The Argosy, Frank Munsey's fiction monthly — and one of the most consequential pages in popular culture history. By 1890 The Argosy was transitioning toward the all-fiction, wood-pulp format that would define the pulp era. The listing reveals the magazine's breadth: serialized Victorian fiction (Mrs. Henry Wood's The House of Halliwell), travel writing (Charles W. Wood on Normandy), and short pieces across adventure and domestic genres. Munsey's decision to fill The Argosy entirely with fiction and print it on cheap pulp paper by 1896 created the economic and editorial template — high volume, low cost, genre variety — that every pulp title from Weird Tales to Amazing Stories would follow, and that the comic book ultimately inherited.