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Inside these mags were stories of almost every genre possible depending on a particular magazine's focus. While the ActionAdventure series in the spirit of ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' or ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' and ProtoSuperhero (like ''Literature/TheShadow'' or ''Literature/DocSavage'') are the best remembered today, there were a vast variety -- crime & detective (such as ''Black Mask''), horror (Creator/HPLovecraft's stories), romance, fantasy (Such as ''Weird Tales'' which introduced Literature/ConanTheBarbarian) and many others. Notably, the ScienceFiction pulps (such as ''Magazine/AmazingStories''[[note]]which wasn't technically in pulp format when it first appeared but "went pulp" for some years from 1933 on[[/note]]) are both credited with establishing Science Fiction as a distinct genre [[note]]the term "science fiction" was coined by ''Amazing Stories'' editor Hugo Gernsback[[/note]] ''and'' blamed for establishing the idea that all science fiction is pulpy ScienceFiction and mostly SpaceOpera, leaving the new genre stuck in the ScifiGhetto to the chagrin of hard sci-fi devotees and others. This argument has mostly faded into history these days, but the underlying issues aren't dead yet.

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Inside these mags were stories of almost every genre possible depending on a particular magazine's focus. While the ActionAdventure series in the spirit of ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' or ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' and ProtoSuperhero (like ''Literature/TheShadow'' or ''Literature/DocSavage'') are the best remembered today, there were a vast variety -- crime & detective (such as ''Black Mask''), horror (Creator/HPLovecraft's stories), romance, fantasy (Such as ''Weird Tales'' ''Magazine/WeirdTales'' which introduced Literature/ConanTheBarbarian) and many others. Notably, the ScienceFiction pulps (such as ''Magazine/AmazingStories''[[note]]which wasn't technically in pulp format when it first appeared but "went pulp" for some years from 1933 on[[/note]]) are both credited with establishing Science Fiction as a distinct genre [[note]]the term "science fiction" was coined by ''Amazing Stories'' editor Hugo Gernsback[[/note]] ''and'' blamed for establishing the idea that all science fiction is pulpy ScienceFiction and mostly SpaceOpera, leaving the new genre stuck in the ScifiGhetto to the chagrin of hard sci-fi devotees and others. This argument has mostly faded into history these days, but the underlying issues aren't dead yet.




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