Talk:Argosy (magazine)/Archive 1

Add reference to British Argosy?
A short story magazine in paperback size, the UK-published Argosy from 1957 to 1962 (at least) published some of the best-known authors in short stories and short serials, along with a few page-fillers of fun quotations, excerpts and a very few little cartoons. 203.59.222.27 (talk) 07:16, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

ERB information crocked
I have not read the reference source, and cannot say how much of what is here is that author's claim, and how much is misunderstanding by the Wiki contributor. However, "Under the Moons of Mars" was never a short story. (See Lupoff, Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure and every other source I have seen for 50 years.) So it wasn't expanded. Rather, the novel was serialized, then book-published. The same process (normal for novels back then) was used for The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars (no mention of that). "Serialized series"? O_o

So if the contributor got this scrambled, what else is messed up? I might suggest a glance at the Isabel Ostrander article to see some of the name mutations. HollyI (talk) 22:12, 2 July 2012 (UTC)


 * What does the Lupoff book say? The specific passage with citation, including page number, can go into the article. (Poking around, I've just seen that the official zine ERB seems to refer to it as a story, and the contents page of All-Story refers to it was one of several "serialized stories": http://www.erbzine.com/mag4/0419.html) --Tenebrae (talk) 22:39, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

"Argosy was "never terribly successful ? ""
I disagree with the quotation from Kathryn Schulz saying "Argosy" was "never terribly successful"". By 1906-7, the magazine was selling 500,000 copies an issue- a larger number than its rival pulp Blue Book (200,000 copies). Considering the "slick" magazine The Saturday Evening Post was selling a million copies an issue in this same period, I'd say "Argosy" was, by pulp magazine standards, quite a successful publication. 188.141.25.160 (talk) 12:12, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

Softcore Magazine
The article says, "By the 1970s, it was racy enough to be considered a softcore men's magazine." But the Open Library has just scanned in a whole bunch of issues from the 1970s, and I haven't really encountered anything I would call "softcore". Obviously I haven't read all of the issues, but can we get a citation on this statement? Watchsmart (talk) 14:28, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Attribution
Text and references copied from Eldred Kurtz Means to Argosy (magazine), See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 22:48, 24 July 2021 (UTC)