Pulp magazines (often referred to as "
the pulps") are inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 through the 1950s. The term
pulp derives from the cheap
wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed; in contrast, magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was wide by high, and thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges.