Argosy (magazine)
Argosy (the name means "large merchant ship" or "fleet") was an American pulp magazine and was published by the New York publisher Frank Andrew Munsey . Argosy is considered to be the first American pulp magazine.
Edition history
From 1882 a magazine appeared under the title Golden Argosy , which published news and stories. In 1896 the title was shortened to The Argosy . The new Argosy then published only short stories and adventure stories that mostly focused on tension, action and mysterious entanglements.
Significant Argosy authors included Horatio Alger , Edgar Rice Burroughs and Dashiell Hammett . Some of Johnston McCulley's Zorro stories also appeared here. War stories, erotic stories and supposedly true stories were added later. In a 1964 Argosy article by Vincent Gaddis printed the Bermuda Triangle (Bermuda Triangle) coined and popularized. The last issue of the series was published in November 1978.
Further editions
Since the end of this issue, a number of magazines have tried to revive the title with little success. From 2004 to 2005 three issues of Argosy Magazine and Argosy Quarterly were published in the USA , which tried to build on the tradition of the magazine.
Web links
- Argosy-Archiv names publisher, issue number, date and shows cover images.