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{{Short description|American magazine (1889–1929)}}
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'''Munsey's Magazine''' was an American magazine founded by [[Frank Munsey]]. Originally launched in 1889 as '''''Munsey's Weekly''''', a humorous magazine, edited by [[John Kendrick Bangs]], it was not successful, and by late 1891 had lost $100,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|100000|1891|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}). Munsey converted it to a general illustrated monthly in October of that year, retitled ''Munsey's Magazine'' and priced at twenty-five cents (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|0.25|1891|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}). [[Richard Titherington]] became the editor, and remained in that role for the rest of the magazine's existence. In 1893 Munsey reduced the price to ten cents (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|.1|1893|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}): this brought him into conflict with the [[American News Company]], which had a near-monopoly on magazine distribution, as they were unwilling to handle the magazine at the cost Munsey asked for. Munsey started his own distribution company and was quickly successful: the first issue at ten cents began with a print run of 20,000 copies but eventually sold 60,000, and within a year circulation had risen to over a quarter of a million issues.▼
▲'''''Munsey's Magazine''''' was an American [[magazine]] founded by [[Frank Munsey]]
''Munsey's Magazine'' included both fiction and non-fiction departments on topics such as art, music, and the theatre, and about famous people. In 1893 Munsey became one of the first publishers to regularly put a picture of a pretty girl on the cover, and circulation was also helped by the liberal use of illustrations. During the mid-1890s ''Munsey's'' often included images of nude and semi-nude women, though this became less common later in the decade. Circulation reached a peak of about 700,000 in 1897, and fluctuated thereafter until the 1910s, when it began to decline. It became a fiction-only magazine in 1921. Many well-known writers appeared in its pages, including [[O. Henry]], [[H. Rider Haggard]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Bret Harte]], [[Max Brand]], [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], [[P. G. Wodehouse]], [[Joseph Conrad]], and [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]]. By 1924 circulation was only 64,000. In 1929 it was merged with ''[[Argosy (magazine)|Argosy]]'', another of Munsey's magazines.▼
▲''Munsey's Magazine'' included both fiction and non-fiction
The
== Publication history ==
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=== ''Munsey's Weekly'' ===
[[File:Frank A Munsey 001.jpg|alt=A seated man in a suit|thumb|Frank Munsey]]
The first issue of ''Munsey's Weekly'' was dated February 2, 1889. It was 36 pages long, in [[Quarto#Quarto as size|quarto]] format,{{#tag:ref|"Quarto" magazines were [[Bookbinding#Stitched_or_sewn_binding|saddle-stapled]] and {{convert|8.5|x|11|in|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephenson-Payne |first=Phil |title=FictionMags Index Family: Notes |url=http://www.philsp.com/docs/fm_user4.html |access-date=February 19, 2024 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref>|group=note}} and priced at ten cents (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|.1|1889|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref name=":11" /> The contents were satire and comedy: it was aimed at the same market as ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]].'' Munsey hired [[John Kendrick Bangs]] as the founding editor;<ref name=":11">Mott (1957b), pp. 608–609.</ref> at the time Bangs was working for ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]]'', but only for two afternoons a week, leaving him time to take on other responsibilities. At ''Harper's'' he was responsible for "The Editor's Drawer", a long-established humorous column. Bangs found Munsey to be difficult to work for; Bangs was used to a relaxed relationship with his previous publisher, but Munsey was constantly asking him about his work. By this time Munsey had written several novels for ''The Golden Argosy'', and he submitted one, titled ''A Tragedy of Errors'', to Bangs, who rejected it. Munsey insisted on running the story, and Bangs [[serial (literature)|serialized]] it, but offered his resignation from the editorship. His last issue was in June. Bangs and Munsey remained on good terms, and Bangs subsequently sold work to Munsey, both for ''Munsey's Magazine'' (as the ''Weekly'' was later retitled) and for the ''[[New York Star (1800s newspaper)|Daily Continent]]'',<ref>Bangs (1941), pp. 101–104.</ref> a short-lived tabloid version of the daily paper the [[New York Star (1800s newspaper)|''New York Star'']], which Munsey acquired for a few months in 1891.<ref>Lee (1917), p. 373.</ref>
The magazine continued without a named editor for two more years, managed by the same team that was running ''The Argosy''.<ref name=":1" /> In February 1890 Munsey bought another humorous weekly, ''Time'' (launched in 1884 as ''Tid-bits'') and merged the subscription list with ''Munsey's Weekly''.<ref>Mott (1957a), p. 268.</ref><ref>Anonymous (February 22, 1890), p. 2.</ref> Munsey claimed that the acquisition would increase the ''Weekly''
=== ''Munsey's Magazine'' ===
[[File:Cover of Munsey's Magazine for November 1893.jpg|alt=Head and shoulders of a woman|left|thumb|Cover of ''Munsey's Magazine'' for November 1893]]
In October 1891 Munsey changed the ''Weekly'' to a monthly, titled ''Munsey's Magazine'', and
The change to a monthly schedule did not help the circulation of ''Munsey's''.<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":3" /> The financial pressure on Munsey intensified, but he was able to obtain a loan for $8,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|8000|1893|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) through an old friend, John Fogler, who was at that time working for the First National Bank of Leavenworth in Kansas. In the [[Panic of 1893]] the bank called in the loan, and Munsey offered Fogler half-ownership in his publishing company if he would take on the loan. Fogler declined and Munsey was forced to borrow the money elsewhere, at 18% interest.<ref name=":9" />
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At the suggestion of [[Charles Anderson Dana|Charles Dana]] of the New York ''[[The Sun (New York City)|Sun]]'', Munsey had already set up a distribution company, named Red Star News, and Dana now gave Munsey credit to run advertisements in the ''Sun'' for the magazine. Munsey wrote again to ANC and told them he was raising his price to seven cents. He did not know that ANC were now receiving thousands of orders for ''Munsey's'' from dealers: ANC sent someone to his office in response to his letter, asking for a price for 10,000 copies. They offered to pay five and three-quarter cents, but Munsey stuck to his seven-cents price. Munsey continued to advertise: the advertisements said "On all news stands", though at first this was far from the truth.<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":23" /><ref name=":24" /> A few orders began to come in, and within ten days all 20,000 copies had been sold. Two more printings brought the total to 60,000.<ref>Britt (1972), pp. 84–85.</ref>
The advertisements and production costs brought Munsey's debts to $150,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|150000|1893|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}). Munsey was purchasing paper on four-month credit, and the planned increase in the print run of each issue, prompted by the success of the first ten-cent issue, meant Munsey's indebtedness to his paper supplier would increase very rapidly. The paper supplier visited Munsey to say that he had talked to others in the trade, and was convinced that it was impossible for Munsey to make a success of a ten-cent magazine. Munsey was able to persuade him to extend more credit, and was quickly proved right as circulation soared over the next couple of years.<ref name=":5" /> The print run for November 1893 was 60,000; for December it was 100,000; for February
[[Rotary printing press|Rotary presses]], developed in the 1860s and gradually improved over succeeding decades, began to be used for magazines in the 1880s, and in 1898 Munsey acquired one that could produce tens of thousands of
=== Later years ===
[[File:Making of Munsey's Magazine Dec 1899 328 2.png|alt=Three people working at a large machine|thumb|upright=2.5|Covering machines used in 1899, from an article in ''Munsey's'' about how the magazine was produced<ref>Munsey (December 1899), p. 328.</ref>]]
Circulation fell slowly from 1898 until 1905, but advertising revenue stayed strong. Munsey had built a modern printing plant which reduced costs, and most of the writers used, for both fiction and editorial material, were not expensive.<ref name=":7">Mott (1957b), p. 614.</ref> Art was typically printed as [[
A campaign to increase circulation began in 1905, but from 1906, when circulation was almost back to 700,000, it fell steadily, down to 400,000 in 1912. By this time Munsey's businesses included a grocery store chain, newspapers, and many other magazines, and he was no longer closely involved in the day-to-day management of ''Munsey's''.<ref name=":0">Mott (1957b), p. 617.</ref> The price was raised from ten to fifteen cents in 1912. It was dropped again to ten cents in 1916 in an unsuccessful attempt to improve sales, and then raised to twenty cents in 1918. The page count, always higher than in the competing magazines, was increased again, sometimes to as many as 265 pages of non-advertising matter.<ref>Mott (1957b), pp. 617–619.</ref>
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=== 19th century ===
''Munsey's Weekly'' included humorous pieces, but also a gossip column about politics and the [[society reporting|society]] of [[Washington, D.C.]]
[[File:Horatio Alger, Jr. in 1852.jpg|alt=Head and shoulders of a man|left|thumb|Horatio Alger in 1852]]
When the schedule changed to monthly, the magazine expanded to 96 non-advertising pages, with a few halftone illustrations.<ref name=":14" /> Initially the contributors were not well-known writers, except for [[Horatio Alger]], whose novelette "A Fancy of Hers" appeared in the March 1892 issue.<ref name=":14" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 763 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00763.htm#TOP |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228045327/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00763.htm#TOP |archive-date=February 28, 2024 |access-date=February 28, 2024 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> This was part of a run of issues in 1892 which each ran "a complete novel in each number", typically about fifty pages. Non-fiction departments included a theater column, "The Stage", written by C. Stuart Johnson; "Literary Chat"; a humor section called "Etchings", and editorial columns.<ref name=":14" /> Munsey's own novel ''Derringforth'' was part way through serialization when the first ten-cent issue appeared.<ref name=":15" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 765 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00765.htm#A3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229224725/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00765.htm#A3 |archive-date=February 29, 2024 |access-date=February 29, 2024 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> In 1896 another well-known writer appeared: [[Hall Caine]]'s ''The Christian'', serialized from 1896 to 1897, was very popular. Other well-known authors followed, including [[F. Marion Crawford]], [[H. Rider Haggard]], [[Anthony Hope|Anthony Hope Hawkins]], [[Myrtle Reed]], and [[Grace MacGowan Cooke]]. [[Ella Wheeler Wilcox]] contributed poetry to the "Etchings" column.<ref name=":15" /> When
The magazine's covers were initially simply a table of contents, but in 1893 Munsey began putting a picture of a pretty girl on the cover of each magazine. He was the first publisher to do so regularly, and the policy probably gave the circulation another boost.<ref>Churchill (1958), pp. 292–293.</ref><ref name=":22" /> In the middle of the 1890s ''Munsey's'' became known for printing images of "half-dressed women and undressed statuary", in the words of an editorial in ''[[The Independent (New York City)|The Independent]]''.<ref name=":6" /><ref>Anonymous (June 27, 1895), p. (867) 11</ref> The magazine grew to 160 pages of reading matter, with an article on "Artists and Their Work", leading each issue, a natural vehicle for numerous halftones. Johnson's "The Stage" had its share of nudes, as did a department called "Types of Fair Women".<ref name=":6" /> "Literary Chat" and "Etchings" (now including poetry) were joined by "Impressions by the Way" (editorials).<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15">Mott (1957b), p. 612.</ref> By the second half of the decade the use of nudes began to decline, but the reputation remained: in 1898 the [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania|Wilkes-Barre]] Public Library cancelled its subscription to ''Munsey's'' "because of the many illustrations ... which are on the nude order".<ref name=":6" /> However, the halftones were still an important part of the magazine's appeal.<ref name=":15" /> After the [[Spanish–American War]] began in April 1898, the regular lead article became "In the Public Eye" rather than "Artists and Their Work", but photographs, now on military topics, were still frequent.<ref name=":16">Mott (1957b), p. 613.</ref>
Articles on famous people, both European aristocrats and American magnates and politicians, were common; these included a series on "Prominent American Families", and a series by [[Theodore Dreiser]] on American writers. New York Governor [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and U.S. House Speaker [[Thomas Brackett Reed|Thomas B. Reed]] each wrote articles for ''Munsey's'' in 1899, and a series called "My Favorite Novelist and His Best Book" brought contributions from [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Bret Harte]], and [[Frank R. Stockton]].<ref name=":15" /> Munsey argued that the short unsigned articles by his house staff, in departments such as "In the Public Eye", "The Stage", "In Vanity Fair" (society events and gossip), and "The World of Music", had "done more than anything else to individualize the magazine [and] to popularize it".<ref name=":16" /> Mott agrees, commenting that "Literary Chat" and "The Stage" were accurately reflective of dramatic and literary fashion, and occasionally included "acute and sensible criticism".<ref name=":16" />
=== 20th century ===
[[File:Robert Hobart Davis from 1930 Time.png|alt=Head of a man|thumb|Bob Davis]]
In the 1900s, when the [[Muckraker|muckraking]] movement was at its height, Munsey refused to join the trend, saying later that he was "keenly interested in a constructive policy, not a destructive policy. ''Munsey's Magazine'' has never been committed to the muck-raking theory, and never will be."<ref name=":17">Mott (1957b), p. 615.</ref> Munsey's political bent was always [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], but his admiration for Theodore Roosevelt led him to support the [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912–1920)|Progressive Party]] in 1912, and ''Munsey's'', along with Munsey's other publications, was strongly for Roosevelt during the [[1912 Republican National Convention|Republican convention]].<ref name=":17" />
In 1904, Munsey hired [[Robert Hobart Davis|Bob Davis]] to edit the ''[[New York Sunday News]]'', and when that was closed down soon afterwards, Davis was made fiction editor of ''Munsey's Magazine'', leaving the editor, Richard Titherington, in overall charge.<ref>Moskowitz (1970), pp. 316–318.</ref> Davis made an arrangement with [[O. Henry]] in January 1905 that for five years he would have the right of first refusal on all Henry's work. In return Davis agreed to pay ten cents a word for everything he bought from Henry.<ref>Long (1949), p. 109.</ref> The result was that a dozen stories by Henry appeared in ''Munsey's'' over the next five years.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Index by Date: Page 3261 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/i03/i03261.htm#BOT |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302223054/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/i03/i03261.htm#BOT |archive-date=March 2, 2024 |access-date=March 2, 2024 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Index by Date: Page 3262 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/i03/i03262.htm#TOP |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302223212/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/i03/i03262.htm#TOP |archive-date=March 2, 2024 |access-date=March 2, 2024 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> Once they had become profitable, all of Munsey's magazines paid on acceptance or soon after, rather than on publication, unlike most of the competing magazines. This made them more attractive to writers.<ref>Moskowitz (1970), p. 294.</ref>
[[World War I]] brought more articles on military topics, often written by members of the government, including [[Robert Lansing]], [[William C. Redfield]], and [[Franklin Knight Lane]].<ref name=":0" />{{#tag:ref|Lansing was Secretary of State from June 1915 to February 1920;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Robert Lansing (1864–1928) |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/lansing-robert |access-date=March 29, 2024 |website=Office of the Historian}}</ref> Redfield was Secretary of Commerce from March 1913 to November 1919;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Redfield, William Cox: 1858–1932 |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000105 |access-date=March 29, 2024 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress}}</ref> and Lane was Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to March 1920.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tourangeau |first=R. Dixie |date=March 27, 2017 |title=Franklin Knight Lane: 1864–1921 |url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/sontag/lane.htm |access-date=March 29, 2024 |website=National Park Service}}</ref>|group=note}} War pictures and images of members of the government were common, and there were two editorial sections, covering the war but also other topics. Mott describes the nonfiction in the period 1916 to the end of the decade as "unusually interesting and varied", citing work by [[Richard Le Gallienne]], [[Brander Matthews]], and [[Anne O'Hagan Shinn|Ann O'Hagan]], among others, but adds that the magazine was "on a lethal toboggan", with circulation declining. The "complete novel in each issue" policy, tried in 1892, was revisited in the mid-1910s, with contributions from [[P. G. Wodehouse]], [[Joseph Conrad]], [[Arnold Bennett]], and others: serialization of longer works was tried again, along with variations in the length of the fiction. From 1921 the magazine was switched to fiction only, including poetry. The authors printed came from both the [[
Although Munsey's two sister magazines, ''Argosy'' and ''All-Story'', regularly carried [[science fiction]], ''Munsey's'' rarely did so for its first thirty years. Starting in 1921, with the change to an all-fiction format, some science fiction began to appear, including in the November 1923 issue
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| colspan="13" style="font-size: 8pt; text-align:left" |Issues of ''Munsey's Magazine'', showing volume/issue number.<ref name=":22" />
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John Kendrick Bangs was the editor from January to June 1889,<ref name=":11" /> and from then until the magazine became a monthly the editorial tasks were managed by Munsey's staff, with no named editor.<ref name=":1" /> Richard H. Titherington was made editor of the monthly ''Munsey's Magazine'' from its first issue in 1891,<ref name=":3" /> and stayed in that role until 1929.<ref name=":12">D'Orsay (February 1929), p. 28.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Titherington was still listed as editor in September 1928, and his managing editor, W. M. MacMahon, was still listed as managing editor rather than editor in February 1929, only eight months before the final issue.<ref name=":12" /><ref>Anonymous (September 1928), p. 16.</ref> A managing editor is typically responsible for the daily operations of a publication.<ref>Sumner & Rhoades (2006), p. 19.</ref>|group=note}}
Many issues of ''Munsey's Weekly'' may no longer exist; David Reed, in his history of popular magazines, reports that "it would appear that the first five volumes, that contain the weekly issues, are lost".<ref>Reed (1997), p. 69.</ref> Almost no academic institutions and libraries have any copies of the weekly issues.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Munsey's weekly
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==External links==
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000535494 ''Munsey's Magazine''] at
* [https://archive.org/search?query=Munsey%27s+magazine Internet Archive full text copies]
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