"It takes a very open mind indeed to look beyond the unnecessarily gaudy covers, trashy titles and barley acceptable advertisements of the pulps to... recognize the authentic power of a kind of writing that, even at its most mannered and artificial, made most of the fiction of the time taste like a cup of lukewarm consomme at a spinsterish tearoom." -Raymond Chandler
<Tab/>Said to have been proscribed by parents, condoned by educators, and ignored by critics Pulp magazines became the gateway to modern fiction. However, the Pulps had no problems selling and soon became one of…
