Through copyright deposit the Library of Congress has acquired issues of approximately three hundred pulp fiction magazines. The 15,000 issues in the collection date from the 1920s to the 1950s and represent the full range of pulp fiction genres. Most items retain their original colored covers.
Many series are incomplete, particularly for the early years.
The Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room of the Serial and Government Publications Division services the majority of the collection and maintains a record of Library holdings by title.