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Argosy was an American magazine, founded in 1882 as The Golden Argosy, a children's weekly, edited by Frank Munsey and published by E. G. Rideout.Munsey took over as publisher when Rideout went bankrupt in 1883, and after many struggles made the magazine profitable.
Argosy, an American pulp magazine 1882–1978 and revived 1990–1994, 2004–2006; Argosy (UK magazine), three British magazines; Argosy spaceship in Escape Velocity; The Argosy, newspaper published in British Guiana 1880-1907; Argosy (band), a British band active in 1969 which consisted of Roger Hodgson and Elton John
A later British Argosy was a short story magazine in paperback size focusing on reprints, and was published from 1926 to 1974. [4] It published stories and serials by leading authors, sometimes interspersed with one or two pages of quotations, excerpts and poetry.
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Argosy was the first pulp magazine and spawned hundreds of imitators and an entire industry that lasted almost sixty years. It was the first brick in the publishing empire built by Frank Munsey , an often-reviled publishing mogul of the early 20th century.
Frank Andrew Munsey (August 21, 1854 – December 22, 1925) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher, banker, political financier and author. He was born in Mercer, Maine, but spent most of his life in New York City.
Vincent Hayes Gaddis (December 28, 1913 – February 26, 1997) was an American author who invented the phrase "Bermuda Triangle", which he used first in the cover article for the 1964 February issue of the magazine Argosy. [1] [2] He popularized many stories about anomalous and paranormal phenomena in a style similar to that of Charles Fort. [3]
First issue of Amazing Stories, dated April 1926, cover art by Frank R. Paul. Science-fiction and fantasy magazines began to be published in the United States in the 1920s. . Stories with science-fiction themes had been appearing for decades in pulp magazines such as Argosy, but there were no magazines that specialized in a single genre until 1915, when Street & Smith, one of the major pulp ...
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