Editing Pulp magazine (section)

===Peak of popularity===
At their peak of popularity in the 1920s–1940s,<ref name="illustrationhistory.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.illustrationhistory.org/genres/pulp-illustration-pulp-magazines|title=Pulp Illustration: Pulp Magazines – Illustration History|website=illustrationhistory.org|access-date=2020-01-22|archive-date=February 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214193300/https://www.illustrationhistory.org/genres/pulp-illustration-pulp-magazines|url-status=live}}</ref> the most successful pulps sold up to one million copies per issue. In 1934, [[Frank Gruber]] said there were some 150 pulp titles. The most successful pulp magazines were ''[[Argosy (magazine)|Argosy]]'', ''[[Adventure (magazine)|Adventure]]'', ''[[Blue Book (magazine)|Blue Book]]'' and ''[[Short Stories (magazine)|Short Stories]]'', collectively described by some pulp historians as "The Big Four".<ref>{{cite book|last =Hulse|first = Ed|date =2009|chapter =The Big Four (Plus One)|title = The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps|publisher = Murania Press|isbn = 978-0-9795955-0-9|pages = 19–47}}</ref> Among the best-known other titles of this period were ''[[Amazing Stories]]'', ''[[Black Mask (magazine)|Black Mask]]'', ''Dime Detective'', ''[[Flying Aces (magazine)|Flying Aces]]'', ''[[Horror Stories (magazine)|Horror Stories]]'', ''[[Love Story Magazine]]'', ''[[Marvel Tales and Unusual Stories|Marvel Tales]]'',<ref name="ls">{{cite book |first=Lee |last=Server |author-link=Lee Server |title=Danger Is My Business: an illustrated history of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines |location=San Francisco |publisher=Chronicle Books |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-8118-0112-6 |pages=62–65 }}</ref> ''[[Oriental Stories]]'', ''[[Planet Stories]]'', ''Spicy Detective'', ''[[Startling Stories]]'', ''[[Wonder Stories|Thrilling Wonder Stories]]'', ''[[Unknown (magazine)|Unknown]]'', ''[[Weird Tales]]'' and ''[[Western Story Magazine]]''.<ref name="ls" />

During the economic hardships of the [[Great Depression]], pulps provided affordable content to the masses, and were one of the primary forms of entertainment, along with [[Classical Hollywood cinema|film]] and [[Golden Age of Radio|radio]].<ref name="illustrationhistory.org"/>

Although pulp magazines were primarily an American phenomenon, there were also a number of British pulp magazines published between the [[Edwardian era]] and [[World War II]]. Notable UK pulps included ''[[The Pall Mall Magazine]]'', ''The Novel Magazine'', ''[[Cassell's Magazine]]'', ''[[The Story-Teller]]'', ''The Sovereign Magazine'', ''Hutchinson's Adventure-Story'' and ''Hutchinson's Mystery-Story''.<ref name="age">Ashley, Michael (2006). ''The Age of the Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines, 1880–1950''. British Library. {{ISBN|1-58456-170-X}}</ref> The German fantasy magazine ''[[Der Orchideengarten]]'' had a similar format to American pulp magazines, in that it was printed on rough pulp paper and heavily illustrated.<ref>"Orchideengarten, Der". in: M.B. Tymn and Mike Ashley, ''Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines''. Westport: Greenwood, 1985. pp. 866. {{ISBN|0-313-21221-X}}</ref>