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Munsey's Weekly, later known as Munsey's Magazine was a thirty-six page quarto magazine founded by Frank A. Munsey in 1889.[1] 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 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) 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 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.[2]
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Contributors
Mazo de la Roche, the author of the popular Jalna series, had her first story published in 1902 in Munsey's Magazine. Tod Robbins had his short story "Spurs" published in 1923. It was loosely adapted into the film Freaks.
Editors
- John Kendrick Bangs (January-June, 1889)
- Richard H. Titherton (Jul 1889 – ?)
- Robert H. Davis (fiction editor 1904-1905)
- Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1910 to 1913)
Back issues
Full-text on-line versions available via Google Books (last accessed 2009-08-03):
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Also see
- The Bookman
- Harper's Magazine
- McClure's Magazine
- The Outlook
- The Review of Reviews
- World's Work Magazine
References
- ^ Tassin, Algernon (December 1915). "The Magazine In America, Part X: The End Of The Century". The Bookman: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature and Life XLII (4): 396-412. http://books.google.com/books?id=d04DAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA396. Retrieved on 2008-08-03.
- ^ The Argosy & related magazines
- Munsey, Frank A. (December 1907). The Founding of the Munsey Publishing-House. De Vinne Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=_m4I9JEy5P0C. Subtitles: Quarter of a Century Old : The Story of The Argosy, Our First Publication, and Incidentally the Story of Munsey's Magazine
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