New Publications, Inc. (1936–60), Recreational Reading (1936–60), and Post Periodicals, Inc. (1936–60). In 1972, the company was sold to Brookside Publications, a company owned by advertising magnate David Geller. At the time it was still publishing Argosy, Railroad, recently ending Adventure and True Adventure. In c. 1977, Geller sold Popular to French publisher Hachette. In 1981, they sold the rights to Joel Frieman who established Blazing Publications, which in 1988 renamed itself Argosy Communications, Inc. Under those names, it published a few comic-book versions of characters, as well as allowed the reprinting of several of their properties. In 2014 most of its titles–including all copyrights and associated intellectual property–were acquired by Steeger Properties, LLC, with Argosy Communications retaining only a few pulp heroes such as The Spider, G-8, and Operator #5. Character magazines Captain Combat Captain Satan Captain V Captain Zero (considered the last hero pulp) Dr. Yen Sin (a Fu Manchu clone) Dusty Ayres and his Battle Birds G-8 Wu Fang (a Fu Manchu clone) The Octopus/The Scorpion (one-shot villain pulps) Operator No. 5 Secret 6 The Spider Other titles Ace-High Detective Magazine Ace-High Magazine Ace-High Novels Monthly Ace-High Western Magazine Ace-High Western Stories Magazine Adventure All Aces Magazine All-American Fiction All-Star Love Magazine All-Story Detective All-Story All-Story Love All-Story Love Stories All-Story Love Tales All-Story Western A. Merritt’s Fantasy Magazine Argosy Argosy All-Story Weekly Astonishing Stories Battle Aces Battle Birds Big-Book Detective Magazine Big-Book Western Magazine Big Chief Western Black Mask Blue Steel Magazine Bulls-Eye Western Stories Candid Confessions Cavalier Classics Complete Mystery Novelettes Confession Novel of the Month Cowboy Movie Thrillers Crack-Shot Western Dare-Devil Aces Daring Confessions Detective Action Stories Detective Dime Novels Detective Fiction Detective Fiction Weekly Detective Story Magazine Detective Tales Dime Adventure Magazine Dime Detective Magazine Dime Mystery Magazine Dime Mystery Book Magazine Dime Sports Magazine Dime Western Magazine Dr. Yen Sin Double Detective Magazine Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds Everybody’s Famous Fantastic Mysteries Famous Spy Stories Fantastic Novels Magazine Fantasy Fiction Fantasy Stories F.B.I. Detective Stories Fifteen Detective Stories Fifteen Love Stories 15 Mystery Stories Fifteen Range Romances Fifteen Sports Stories 15 Story Detective Fifteen Western Tales Fifth Column Stories Fighting Aces Flynn’s Flynn’s Detective Flynn’s Detective Fiction Flynn’s Weekly Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Focus Magazine Foreign Legion Adventures .44 Western Magazine Four Star Love Magazine Fun for All Fun for One Gang World G-8 and His Battle Aces Glamorous Love Stories