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Imagination Magazine, 63 Vintage Pulp Magazine, Science Fiction DVD

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Imagination was an American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in October 1950 by Raymond Palmer's Clark Publishing Company.  Each book is in high resolution PDF format.

 

 

Imagination Magazine
63 Vintage Magazine Issues
Covering the years from 1950 to 1958

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9 years of vintage pulp fiction magazines!

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A must have resource for any vintage pulp fiction magazine fan!

Neatly organized titles as shown, on one easy to use DVD.

(SAMPLE PAGE VIEWS)

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All books are PDF format, for easy reading and printing.  Please ensure you have the latest copy of Adobe Reader installed on your machine (it is free online).

Please note, this disk is only for use in your computer's drive!  It will NOT play in the DVD Player hooked up to your TV!


Before the epic movie Pulp Fiction, there was Pulp Magazines.  Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were  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 7 inches (18 cm) wide by 10 inches (25 cm) high, and 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges.

In their first decades, pulps were most often priced at ten cents per magazine, while competing slicks cost 25 cents a piece. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were best known for their lurid and exploitative stories and sensational cover art. Modern superhero comic books are sometimes considered descendants of "hero pulps"; pulp magazines often featured illustrated novel-length stories of heroic characters.

Imagination was an American fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in October 1950 by Raymond Palmer's Clark Publishing Company. The magazine was sold almost immediately to Greenleaf Publishing Company, owned by William Hamling, who published and edited it from the third issue, February 1951, for the rest of the magazine's life. Hamling launched a sister magazine, Imaginative Tales, in 1954; both ceased publication at the end of 1958 in the aftermath of major changes in US magazine distribution due to the liquidation of American News Company.

The magazine was more successful than most of the numerous science fiction titles launched in the late 1940s and early 1950s, lasting a total of 63 issues. Despite this success, the magazine had a reputation for low-quality space opera and adventure fiction, and modern literary historians refer to it in dismissive terms. Hamling consciously adopted an editorial policy oriented toward entertainment, asserting in an early issue that "science fiction was never meant to be an educational tour de force". Few of the stories from Imagination have received recognition, but it did publish Robert Sheckley's first professional sale, "Final Examination", in the May 1952 issue, and also printed fiction by Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein and John Wyndham.  This DVD contains the entire run of 63 issues, each issue is about 130-150 pages.

Please note that this collection contains scans of old magazines, some of which were in poor condition before being rescued and digitized for posterity.  This means that you may see some covers with creases and tears that show up in the scans.

Issues List:

Imagination v01n01 (1950-10) Imagination v04n08 (1953-09) Imagination v06n06 (1955-06)
Imagination v01n02 (1950-12) Imagination v04n09 (1953-10) Imagination v06n07 (1955-07)
Imagination v02n01 (1951-02) Imagination v04n10 (1953-11) Imagination v06n08 (1955-10)
Imagination v02n02 (1951-04) Imagination v04n11 (1953-12) Imagination v06n09 (1955-12)
Imagination v02n03 (1951-06) Imagination v05n01 (1954-01) Imagination v07n01 (1956-02)
Imagination v02n04 (1951-09) Imagination v05n02 (1954-02) Imagination v07n02 (1956-04)
Imagination v02n05 (1951-11) Imagination v05n03 (1954-03) Imagination v07n03 (1956-06)
Imagination v03n01 (1952-01) Imagination v05n04 (1954-04) Imagination v07n04 (1956-08)
Imagination v03n02 (1952-03) Imagination v05n05 (1954-05) Imagination v07n05 (1956-10)
Imagination v03n03 (1952-05) Imagination v05n06 (1954-06) Imagination v07n06 (1956-12)
Imagination v03n04 (1952-07) Imagination v05n07 (1954-07) Imagination v08n01 (1957-02)
Imagination v03n05 (1952-09) Imagination v05n08 (1954-08) Imagination v08n02 (1957-04)
Imagination v03n06 (1952-10) Imagination v05n09 (1954-09) Imagination v08n03 (1957-06)
Imagination v03n07 (1952-12) Imagination v05n10 (1954-10) Imagination v08n04 (1957-08)
Imagination v04n01 (1953-01) Imagination v05n11 (1954-11) Imagination v08n05 (1957-10)
Imagination v04n02 (1953-02) Imagination v05n12 (1954-12) Imagination v08n06 (1957-12)
Imagination v04n03 (1953-04) Imagination v06n01 (1955-01) Imagination v09n01 (1958-02)
Imagination v04n04 (1953-05) Imagination v06n02 (1955-02) Imagination v09n02 (1958-04)
Imagination v04n05 (1953-06) Imagination v06n03 (1955-03) Imagination v09n03 (1958-06)
Imagination v04n06 (1953-07) Imagination v06n04 (1955-04) Imagination v09n04 (1958-08)
Imagination v04n07 (1953-08) Imagination v06n05 (1955-05) Imagination v09n05 (1958-10)

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