Octopus Pulp

Pulp magazines (or pulp fiction; often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines. They were widely published from the 1920s through the 1950s. The term pulp fiction can also refer to mass market paperbacks since the 1950s. But did you know that many of these fictional stories were about or featured octopuses?

Here are some images of my favorite octopus pulp covers: