From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11998 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, August 17 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11998 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fit. Strong. Sexy. ["Sheâs 92" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:59:56 +0200 From: "Sheâs 92" Subject: Fit. Strong. Sexy. Fit. Strong. Sexy. http://starbuckssurvey.services/hjJQndmJKktwZd8W57YOXr_xTmIsUjbXhIN4DYBKqA2KwGTAkQ http://starbuckssurvey.services/KiBPKxJs-zm9wZoyCs_m9k4NkPjMYtCOdJ5rVEzD1uoiqk8V Competition from comic-books and paperback novels further eroded the pulps' market share, but it was the widespread expansion of television that sounded the death knell of the pulps. In a more affluent post-war America, the price gap compared to slick magazines was far less significant. In the 1950s, men's adventure magazines began to replace the pulp. The 1957 liquidation of the American News Company, then the primary distributor of pulp magazines, has sometimes been taken as marking the end of the "pulp era"; by that date, many of the famous pulps of the previous generation, including Black Mask, The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Weird Tales, were defunct. Almost all of the few remaining pulp magazines are science fiction or mystery magazines, now in formats similar to "digest size", such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. The old format is still in use for some lengthy serials, like the German science fiction weekly Perry Rhodan (over 3,000 issues as of 2019). Over the course of their evolution, there were a huge number of pulp magazine titles; Harry Steeger of Popular Publications claimed that his company alone had published over 300, and at their peak they were publishing 42 titles per month. Many titles of course survived only briefly. While the most popular titles were monthly, many were bimonthly and some were quarterly. The collapse of the pulp industry changed the landscape of publishing b ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11998 ***********************************************