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magazine founded by Frank A. Munsey
Frank Munsey
Frank Andrew Munsey was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and author. He was born in Mercer, Maine but spent most of his life in New York City...
in 1889. Munsey aimed at "a magazine of the people and for the people, with pictures and art and good cheer and human interest throughout". John Kendrick Bangs
John Kendrick Bangs
John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, editor and satirist.-Biography:He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father was a lawyer in New York City....
was the editor. The magazine was soon selling 40,000 copies a week. In 1891 Munsey moved to monthly publication and it was re-named Munsey's Magazine. It is credited with being the first mass-market magazine.
In October 1893 Munsey reduced the price of the magazine to ten cents, which was greatly successful. By 1895 the magazine had a circulation of 500,000 a month. It included numerous illustrations (including many by the illustrator Charles Howard Johnson
Charles Howard Johnson
Charles Howard Johnson was a nineteenth century American illustrator and newspaper artist. He is best known for his sparse illustrations of the 1890 U.S. edition of The princess by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson....
) and was attacked for its "half-dressed women and undressed statuary". Some outlets refused to stock the magazine as a result, but circulation continued to grow and by 1897 had reached 700,000 per month.
The circulation of the magazine began to fall in 1906 and by the 1920s was down to 60,000. In October 1929, it was merged with Argosy
Argosy (magazine)
Argosy was an American pulp magazine, published by Frank Munsey. It is generally considered to be the first American pulp magazine. The magazine began as a general information periodical entitled The Golden Argosy, targeted at the boys adventure market.-Launch of Argosy:In late September 1882,...
and immediately demerged with Argosy All-Story to form All-Story, which continued on a monthly schedule under a variety of similar titles until May 1955.
Contributors
Mazo de la RocheMazo de la Roche
Mazo de la Roche , born Mazo Louise Roche in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.-Early life:...
, the author of the popular Jalna
Jalna (novel)
Jalna is a novel by the Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche.It is the first of a 16-novel family saga about the Whiteoak family. First published in 1927, Jalna won the Atlantic Monthly Press's first $10,000 Atlantic Prize Novel award. De la Roche went on to write about the Whiteoak family for the...
series, had her first story published in 1902 in Munsey's Magazine.
Tod Robbins
Tod Robbins
Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins was an American author of horror and mystery fiction. Robbins attended Washington and Lee University and—along with Mark W...
had his short story "Spurs
Spurs (short story)
"Spurs" is a short story by Tod Robbins. The story was published in February 1923 in Munsey's Magazine and included in Robbins' 1926 anthology Who Wants a Green Bottle? and Other Uneasy Tales...
" published in 1923. It was loosely adapted into the film Freaks
Freaks
Freaks is a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' 1923 short story "Spurs"...
.
Editors
- John Kendrick BangsJohn Kendrick BangsJohn Kendrick Bangs was an American author, editor and satirist.-Biography:He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father was a lawyer in New York City....
(January–June, 1889) - Richard H. Titherton (Jul 1889 – ?)
- Robert H. Davis (fiction editor 1904–1905)
- Isaac Frederick MarcossonIsaac Frederick MarcossonIsaac Frederick Marcosson was an American editor, born at Louisville, Kentucky, and educated in the schools of Louisville.In 1903, he became associate editor of The World's Work, and in 1907, he became a member of and financial editor of The Saturday Evening Post...
(1910–1913)
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- Vol VII: April 1892 to September 1892
- Vol VIII: October 1892 to March 1893
- Vol IX: April 1893 to September 1893 (not found)
- Vol X: October 1893 to March 1894
- Vol XI: April 1894 to September 1894
- Vol XII: October 1894 to March 1895
- Vol XIII: April 1895 to September 1895
- Vol XIV: October 1895 to March 1896
- Vol XV: April 1896 to September 1896
- Vol XVI: October 1896 to March 1897
- Vol XVII: April 1896 to September 1896 (not found)
- Vol XVIII: October 1897 to March 1898
- Vol XIX: April 1898 to September 1898
- Vol XX: October 1898 to March 1899
- Vol XXI: April 1899 to September 1899
- Vol XXII: October 1899 to March 1900
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- Vol XXIII: October 1900 to March 1901 (not found)
- Vol XXIV: April 1901 to September 1901 (not found)
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- Vol XXVI: October 1901 to March 1902
- Vol XXVII: April 1902 to September 1902
- Vol XXXVII: October 1902 to March 1903
- Vol XXIX: April 1903 to September 1903
- Vol XXX: October 1903 to March 1904
- Vol XXXI: April 1904 to September 1904
- Vol XXXII: October 1904 to March 1905
- Vol XXXIII: April 1905 to September 1905
- Vol XXXIV: October 1905 to March 1906
- Vol XXXV: April 1906 to September 1906 (not found)
- Vol XXXVI: October 1906 to March 1907
- Vol XXXVII: April 1907 to September 1907
- Vol XXXVIII: October 1907 to March 1908
- Vol XXXIX: April 1908 to September 1908
- Vol XL: October 1908 to March 1909 (not found)
- Vol XLI: April 1909 to September 1909
- Vol XLII: October 1909 to March 1910
- Vol XLIII: April 1910 to September 1910
- Vol XLIV: October 1910 to March 1911 (not found)
- Vol XLV: April 1911 to September 1911
- Vol XLVI: October 1911 to March 1912
- Vol XLVII: April 1912 to September 1912
- Vol XLVIII: October 1912 to March 1913 (not found)
- Vol XLIX: April 1913 to September 1913 (not found)
- Vol L: October 1913 to January 1914
- Vol LI: February 1914 to May 1914
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- Vol LIII: October 1914 to January 1915
- Vol LVI: February 1915 to May 1915
- Vol LV: June 1915 to September 1915
- Vol LVI: October 1915 to January 1916
- Vol LVII: February 1916 to May 1916
- Vol LVIII: June 1916 to September 1916
- Vol LIX: October 1916 to January 1917 (not found)
- Vol LX: February 1917 to May 1917
- Vol LXI: June 1917 to September 1917
- Vol LXII: October 1917 to January 1918
- Vol LXIII: February 1918 to May 1918
- Vol LXIV: June 1918 to September 1918
- Vol LXV: October 1918 to January 1919
- Vol LXVI: February 1919 to May 1919
- Vol LXVII: June 1919 to September 1919
- Vol LXVIII: October 1919 to January 1920
- Vol LXIX: February 1920 to May 1920
- Vol LXX: June 1920 to September 1920
- Vol LXXI: October 1920 to January 1921
- Vol LXXII: February 1921 to May 1921
- Vol LXXIII: June 1921 to September 1921
- Vol LXXIV: October 1921 to January 1922
- Vol LXXV: February 1922 to May 1922
- Vol LXXVI: June 1922 to September 1922
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