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The Argosy, Vol. 52

1891 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of The Argosy carries no lurid painted cover — in 1891 Frank Munsey's pioneering fiction weekly still presented itself as a modest, text-heavy monthly miscellany, its title set in plain Victorian letterpress above a table of contents. The interior tells a different story: serialized adventure fiction including The Fate of the Hara Diamond, Chapter XI, pulling readers forward with stolen gems, swooning suspects, and the narcotic trace of white ash on a bare floorboard. The Argosy is the direct ancestor of the wood-pulp magazine form — Munsey switched to cheap pulp paper in 1896 — and its appetite for genre serial fiction (mystery, adventure, romance) supplied the narrative grammar that later pulps, and eventually comic books, would inherit wholesale.

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