Pulp magazines were a medium that flourished in the first half of the 20th century. They took their name from the fact that they were printed on cheap, wood pulp paper. The first true pulp magazine is generally considered Argosy, founded by Frank Munsey in 1888 as The Golden Argosy and becoming simply The Argosy in 1894. With the success of Argosy, other publishers entered the market in droves. The pulps covered an amazing array of genres, from detective fiction (such as Detective Story), Westerns (Western Story), confessionals (True Story), science fiction (Astounding), and the spicy pulps (such as Spicy Detective--as close to smut as the Thirties and Forties could get). Perhaps the best known are the hero pulps, such as The Shadow, Doc Savage, and The Spider. The pulps declined slowly in the Forties, and the end of the Pulp Era should perhaps be considered as having ended in 1949, when Street and Smith cancelled its remaining pulps (including The Shadow and Doc Savage) in one foul swoop. Despite this, pulps persisted late into the 20th century. Today Analog (formerly Astounding), Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and True Story are remnants of the pulp era. This group is dedicated to pulp magazines and pulp fiction from all eras, from Nick Carter to Mike Hammer.