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Abstract

Detective magazines were a source of entertainment and fascination for the working-class readers of the early 20th century (Smith, 2000). Their illustrated covers drawn by pulp artists, such as Dalton Stevens and Jerome Rozen, were made to be attractive. Caronia (2019) tells how weekly periodicals continued to circulate as the rise of detective stories grew in popularity before the first detective magazines were printed and published. It was the American writer Edgar Allen Poe who is credited with having written the first detective story when he published The Murders of the Rue Morgue in Graham’s Magazine in April 1841 giving birth to the literary mystery genre (Morse, 2013). Kowalski (2018) tells how the obsession with crime fiction grew and in the year 1896, a magazine titled The Argosy was printed on cheap wood pulp paper and sold for the price of a dime.

The purpose of this study is to do a collection analysis of the complete collection of five hundred and fifty-two Pulp Fiction Detective magazines archived in the Internet Archive Digital Library. The most viewed, favored, and commented-on pulp mysteries were gathered and collected to catch a glimpse of which crime pulp magazines see the most traffic among modern audiences.

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