The Argosy, Vol. 73 (1901)

This table of contents page from The Argosy's seventy-third volume reveals the remarkable range Frank Munsey's pioneering fiction weekly delivered to readers for a dime. Launched in 1882 and reformatted onto cheap wood-pulp paper by 1896—giving the entire pulp industry its name—The Argosy mixed adventure serials, travel sketches, society fiction, and early genre experiments in a single package. Here, Stella M. Düring's "Outrageous Fortune" runs alongside an Indian Garden travelogue, Eden Phillpotts's illustrated serial, and Far Eastern vignettes. No painted cover survives in this image, only the contents list—but that list documents exactly how The Argosy trained mass audiences to expect serialized thrills, a habit the comic book would later inherit wholesale.