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{{Short description|American magazine}} {{About||the British magazines with this title|Argosy (UK magazine)}} {{Redirect|The Golden Argosy|the book|The Golden Argosy (book)}} {{Featured article}} {{Use American English|date=April 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Argosy | image_file = Argosy 1906 04.jpg | image_caption = Cover of the April 1906 issue | founder = [[Frank Munsey]] | founded = 1882 | finaldate = 2016 | company = }} '''''Argosy''''' was an American magazine, founded in 1882 as '''''The Golden Argosy''''', a children's weekly, edited by [[Frank Munsey]] and published by [[E. G. Rideout]]. Munsey took over as publisher when Rideout went bankrupt in 1883, and after many struggles made the magazine profitable. He shortened the title to '''''The Argosy''''' in 1888 and targeted an audience of men and boys with adventure stories. In 1894 he switched it to a monthly schedule and in 1896 he eliminated all non-fiction and started using cheap pulp paper, making it the first [[pulp magazine]]. Circulation had reached half a million by 1907, and remained strong until the 1930s. The name was changed to '''''Argosy All-Story Weekly''''' in 1920 after the magazine merged with ''[[All-Story Magazine|All-Story Weekly]]'', another Munsey pulp, and from 1929 it became just ''Argosy''. In 1925 Munsey died, and the publisher, the Frank A. Munsey Company, was purchased by [[William Thompson Dewart|William Dewart]], who had worked for Munsey. By 1942 circulation had fallen to no more than 50,000, and after a failed effort to revive the magazine by including sensational non-fiction, it was sold that year to [[Popular Publications]], another pulp magazine publisher. Popular converted it from pulp to [[Slick (magazine format)|slick format]], and initially attempted to make it a fiction-only magazine, but gave up on this within a year. Instead it became a [[Men's adventure|men's magazine]], carrying fiction and feature articles aimed at men. Circulation soared and by the early 1950s was well over one million. Early contributors included [[Horatio Alger]], [[Oliver Optic]], and [[G. A. Henty]]. During the pulp era, many famous writers appeared in ''Argosy'', including [[O. Henry]], [[James Branch Cabell]], [[Albert Payson Terhune]], [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], [[Erle Stanley Gardner]], [[Zane Grey]], [[Robert E. Howard]], and [[Max Brand]]. ''Argosy'' was regarded as one of the most prestigious publications in the pulp market, along with ''[[Blue Book (magazine)|Blue Book]]'', ''[[Adventure (magazine)|Adventure]]'' and ''[[Short Stories (magazine)|Short Stories]]''. After the transition to slick format it continued to publish fiction, including science fiction by [[Robert Heinlein]], [[Arthur Clarke]], and [[Ray Bradbury]]. From 1948 to 1958 it published a series by Gardner called "The Court of Last Resort" which examined the cases of dozens of convicts who maintained their innocence, and succeeding in overturning many of the convictions. NBC [[The Court of Last Resort|adapted the series for television]] in 1957. Popular sold ''Argosy'' to David Geller in 1972, and in 1978 Geller sold it to the [[Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.|Filipacchi Group]], which closed it at the end of the year. The magazine has been revived several times, most recently in 2016. ==Publication history== === ''The Golden Argosy'' === In the late 1870s, [[Frank Munsey]] was working in [[Augusta, Maine]], as the manager of the local [[Western Union]] office. He helped a friend get a job at a publisher in Augusta, and after a couple of years his friend moved to New York City to work for another publishing company. Munsey was becoming more familiar with the publishing industry during this time, and decided he wanted to launch a magazine of his own. He had some difficulty in getting anyone to agree to invest, but eventually persuaded a stockbroker he knew to put in $2,500 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|2500|1882|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}), of which $500 was a loan to Munsey. Munsey invested $500 of his own, and his friend in New York City added another $1,000, making a total of $4,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|4000|1882|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) in capital.<ref>Munsey (1907), pp. 9β16.</ref><ref>Anonymous (1882), p. 3.</ref> Munsey resigned from Western Union, and moved to New York on September 23, 1882, bringing with him manuscripts he had bought for the magazine before leaving Augusta.<ref>Britt (1972), p. 58.</ref> [[File:Frank Munsey.jpg|alt=Upper body of a man in formal wear|left|thumb|Frank Munsey]] Once in New York, Munsey quickly realized that the cost estimates he had made, based on what he had been able to learn while in Maine, were unrealistically low.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> His original plan for the magazine had been to make it a close copy of ''[[Golden Days (magazine)|Golden Days]]'', a weekly paper for children published in Philadelphia by [[James Elverson]],<ref>Britt (1972), p. 61.</ref> and to include lithographed covers and internal illustrations.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> He abandoned these ideas and came up with a simplified approach, still based on ''Golden Days'', that he believed could be made profitable. He wrote to the stockbroker who had promised $2,500 to get the funds sent to him, but received no reply, and since this made it impossible to start the magazine as planned, Munsey released his New York friend from his promise of investment. This left Munsey with only about $40 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|40|1882|r=-1}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}), along with the manuscripts he had in hand, which had cost over $500 to acquire. He began looking for a publisher who would back the new magazine, and eventually persuaded [[E. G. Rideout]] to take it on. The first issue, titled ''The Golden Argosy'', with Munsey as editor and manager, was dated December 9, 1882;<ref name=":2">Britt (1972), pp. 64β66.</ref><ref name=":3">Munsey (1907), pp. 14β17.</ref> it was eight pages long and cost five cents (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|0.05|1882|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 182 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/k00182.htm#A15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728155024/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/k00182.htm |archive-date=July 28, 2023 |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> Subscribers were offered a set of colored [[Chromolithography|chromolithographs]] along with their subscription.<ref name=":2" /> Five months later Rideout went bankrupt. Munsey had not drawn all his salary, and Rideout had borrowed money from him as well, so he was owed about $1,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|1000|1883|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) by the bankrupt company. He claimed the magazine's title and subscription list in return for his debt, succeeding over a competing claim from a publisher who would have merged the magazine's subscriptions into those of his own publication.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>Munsey (May 1898), p. 219.</ref> The first issue with Munsey as publisher was dated September 8, 1883.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 186 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/k00186.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728181135/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/k00186.htm |archive-date=July 28, 2023 |access-date=July 28, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> Munsey again was reduced to a few dollars, but he was able to borrow $300 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|300|1883|r=-2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) from Oscar Holway, a banker in Augusta who was a friend.<ref name=":0">Britt (1972), pp. 66β67.</ref><ref name=":1">Munsey (1907), pp. 17β19.</ref> At about this time he bought some stories from Malcolm Douglas, but when Douglas came to collect his payment Munsey offered him the job of editor, at $10 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|10|1883|r=-2}}|0}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) per week, in lieu of payment for the stories. Douglas accepted.<ref name=":0" /> {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapsible" style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 8pt; margin-left: 2em; text-align: center; float: right" |+ class="nowrap" |Issue data for ''The Golden Argosy'' and ''The Argosy'' up to 1894<ref name=":12" /> ! ! !January !February !March !April !May !June !July !August !September !October !November !December |- ! rowspan="3" |1882 |'''Dates:''' | | | | | | | | | | | | bgcolor="#ffff99" |9,16,23,30 |- |'''Volume:''' | | | | | | | | | | | | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/1 to 1/4 |- |'''Issue:''' | | | | | | | | | | | | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1 to 4 |- style="border-top: 2px solid" ! rowspan="3" |1883 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1,8,15,22,29 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/5 to 1/8 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/9 to 1/12 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/13 to 1/17 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/18 to 1/21 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/22 to 1/25 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/26 to 1/30 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/31 to 1/34 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1/35 to 1/38 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1/39 to 1/43 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1/44 to 1/47 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1/48 to 1/51 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1/52, 2/1 to 2/4 |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |5 to 8 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |9 to 12 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |13 to 17 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |18 to 21 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |22 to 25 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |26 to 30 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |31 to 34 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |35 to 38 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |39 to 43 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |44 to 47 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |48 to 51 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |52 to 56 |- |- style="border-top: 2px solid" ! rowspan="3" |1884 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2,9,26,23 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1,8,25,22,29 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3,10,17,23,31 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1,9,26,23,30 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |6,13,20,27 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/5 to 2/8 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/9 to 2/12 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/13 to 2/17 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/18 to 2/21 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/22 to 2/26 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/29 to 2/30 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/31 to 2/34 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/35 to 2/39 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/40 to 2/43 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/44 to 2/47 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2/48 to 2/52 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/1 to 3/4 |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |57 to 60 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |61 to 64 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |65 to 69 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |70 to 73 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |74 to 78 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |79 to 82 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |83 to 86 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |87 to 91 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |92 to 95 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |96 to 99 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |100 to 104 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |105 to 108 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="3" |1885 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |5,12,19,26 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/5 to 3/9 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/10 to 3/13 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/14 to 3/17 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/18 to 3/21 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/22 to 3/26 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/27 to 3/30 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/31 to 3/34 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/35 to 3/39 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/40 to 3/43 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/44 to 3/48 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3/49 to 3/52 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/1 to 4/4 |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |109 to 113 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |114 to 117 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |118 to 121 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |122 to 125 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |126 to 130 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |131 to 134 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |135 to 138 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |139 to 143 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |144 to 147 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |148 to 152 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |153 to 156 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |157 to 160 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="3" |1886 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/5 to 4/9 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/10 to 4/13 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/14 to 4/17 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/18 to 4/21 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/22 to 4/26 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/27 to 4/30 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/31 to 4/35 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/36 to 4/39 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/40 to 4/43 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/44 to 4/48 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |4/49 to 4/52 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/1 to 5/4 |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |161 to 165 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |166 to 169 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |170 to 173 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |174 to 177 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |178 to 182 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |183 to 186 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |187 to 191 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |192 to 195 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |196 to 199 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |200 to 204 | bgcolor="#ff6d6d" |205 to 208 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |209 to 212 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="3" |1887 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,212,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,23 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/5 to 5/9 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/10 to 5/13 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/14 to 5/17 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/18 to 5/22 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/23 to 5/26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/27 to 5/30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/31 to 5/35 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/36 to 5/39 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/40 to 5/43 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/44 to 5/48 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5/49 to 5/52 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/1 to 6/5 |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |213 to 217 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |218 to 221 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |222 to 225 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |226 to 230 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |231 to 234 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |235 to 238 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |239 to 243 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |244 to 247 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |248 to 251 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |252 to 256 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |257 to 260 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |261 to 265 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="3" |1888 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,.17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/6/ to 6/9 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/10 to 6/13 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/14 to 6/18 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/19 to 6/22 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/23 to 6/26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/27 to 6/31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/32 to 6/35 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/36 to 6/39 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/40 to 6/44 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/45 to 6/48 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6/49 to 6/52 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7/1 to 7/5 |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |266 6o 269 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |270 to 273 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |274 to 278 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |279 to 282 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |283 to 286 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |287 to 291 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |292 to 295 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |296 to 299 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |300 to 304 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |305 to 308 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |309 to 312 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |313 to 317 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="3" |1889 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7/6 to 7/9 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7/10 to 7/13 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7/14 to 7/18 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7/19 to 7/22 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7/23 to 7/26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |8/1 to 8/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |8/6 to 8/9 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |8/10 to 8/14 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |8/15 to 8/18 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |8/19 to 8/22 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |8/23 to 89/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |9/2 to 9/5 |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |318 to 321 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |322 to 325 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |326 to 330 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |331 to 334 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |335 to 338 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |339 to 343 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |344 to 347 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |348 to 352 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |353 to 356 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |357 to 360 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |361 to 365 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |366 to 369 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="3" |1890 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |9/6 to 9/9 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |9/10 to 9/13 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |9/14 to 9/18 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |9/19 to 9/22 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |9/23 to 10/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |10/2 to 10/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |10/6 to 10/9 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |10/10 to 10/14 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |10/15 to 10/18 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |10/19 to 10/22 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |10/23 to 11/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |11/2 to 11/5 |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |370 to 373 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |374 to 377 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |378 to 382 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |383 to 386 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |387 to 391 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |392 to 395 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |396 to 399 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |400 to 404 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |405 to 408 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |409 to 412 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |413 to 417 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |418 to 421 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! 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rowspan="3" |1894 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | | | | | | | | | |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |17/7 to 17/10 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |17/11 to 17/14 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |17/15 to 17/18 | | | | | | | | | |- |'''Issue:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |579 to 582 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |583 to 586 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |587 to 590 | | | | | | | | | |- | colspan="14" style="font-size: 9pt; text-align:left; line-height: 10pt;" |{{legend0|#ffff99|Frank A. Munsey}} {{legend0|#ff6d6d|Malcolm Douglas}} {{legend0|#ccffff|Matthew White}} <br />Not all bibliographic sources include Douglas, but Munsey's biographer, George Britt, gives details of Douglas's hire, and he is described in J. Randolph Cox's ''The Dime Novel Companion'' as "the real editor of ''Golden Argosy''".<ref name="Douglas" /><ref name=":0" /><ref>Cox (2000), p. 182.</ref> Douglas's first issue was dated September 8, 1883, and White took over with the December 4, 1886 issue.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last1=Ashley |first1=Mike |last2=Eggeling |first2=John |name-list-style=amp |date=January 9, 2023 |title=SFE: Argosy, The |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/argosy_the |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516194043/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/argosy_the |archive-date=May 16, 2023 |access-date=July 30, 2023 |website=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|[[Richard Titherington]] was hired by Munsey in September 1886, and recalls White being hired in December of that year, but adds that in his recollection he, Munsey and White worked together on the magazine without specific titles, and that it was not until 1889 that White could be said to have definitely taken over as editor.<ref name=":17" />|group=note}} |} A friend from Augusta, John Fogler, who had become cashier of Augusta's First National Bank, was able to arrange another loan for Munsey, of $1,000.<ref>Britt (1972), p. 69.</ref> Munsey managed to maintain the regular weekly schedule but the financial pressure on him was enormous.<ref name=":4">Britt (1972), pp. 68β69.</ref><ref name=":5">Munsey (1907), pp. 19β20.</ref> Rideout had set up Munsey in an office on Barclay Street in what is now known as [[Tribeca]], in Manhattan; Munsey moved to an office on Warren Street nearby to reduce the rent, and he and Douglas would eat in a German beer saloon where they could get a free lunch. Munsey and Douglas assembled free material by rewriting items from English boys' papers. One week, Douglas was unable to find enough material to fill an issue. Munsey wrote a short story that night: "Harry's Scheme, or Camping Among the Maples", about two boys in the Maine woods, and turned it in to Douglas the next morning.<ref name=":4" /><ref name="Douglas" />{{#tag:ref|This is how Munsey's biographer recounts the events, citing Douglas as his source, but "Harry's Scheme" appeared in the February 3, 1883 issue of ''The Golden Argosy'', before Rideout went bankrupt, so Douglas may not have been editor at the time, or he may have been hired before Munsey took control of the magazine.<ref name="Douglas">Britt (1972), p. 66.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 183 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/k00183.htm#A8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729173012/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/k00183.htm |archive-date=July 29, 2023 |access-date=September 3, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref>|group=note}} Douglas twice saw Munsey write a letter to Elverson, offering the subscription list of ''The Golden Argosy'' in return for a job at $50 per week, but Munsey did not mail either letter.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> In 1884 [[James G. Blaine|James Blaine]] was the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate for President. Blaine knew of Munsey from Augusta, and his campaign needed help with publicity: Munsey proposed a new magazine, ''Munsey's Illustrated Weekly'', to carry campaign news. It only lasted two months, from September 6 to November 8, 1884, but it helped Munsey by giving him an official-seeming presence in publishing that made it much easier for him to obtain credit for paper and other supplies.<ref>Britt (1972), pp. 70β71.</ref> Before the campaign he had been unable to get credit; after it he was $8,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|8000|1882|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) in debt to his suppliers. Ten years later Munsey recalled the change, and said "That debt made me. Before, I had no credit and had to live from hand to mouth. But when I owed $8,000 my creditors didn't dare drop me. They saw their only chance of getting anything was to keep me going."<ref>Britt (1972), p. 72.</ref> Munsey had a bank account in New York, but kept two more, in Maine and Chicago, moving funds between them constantly: "I kept thousands of dollars in the air between these three banks. It was a dizzy, dazzling, daring game, a game to live for, to die for, a royal glorious game".<ref name=":22" /> Munsey told a story of being unable to meet payroll because the New York bank would not give him credit. He went to the bank, upbraided the president for his "effrontery", and left without letting the man speak.<ref name=":22" /> When his employee went to the bank again that day, he was able to cash the payroll check.<ref name=":22">Britt (1972), pp. 74β75.</ref> The fact that ''The Golden Argosy'' never missed an issue also helped Munsey persuade the businesses he worked with to extend him credit, which in turn helped him invest in the business. In the winter of 1885/1886 he wrote a [[Serial (literature)|serial]], ''Afloat in a Great City'', with the intention of using it as the basis for an advertising campaign to increase subscriptions. Munsey owed $5,000 at this point, and went into debt by about another $10,000 to advertise the story, distributing 100,000 sample copies of the March 13, 1886 issue containing the first installment of the serial in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the surrounding areas. The campaign was a success, and from being a more-or-less breakeven concern, ''The Golden Argosy'' began to net Munsey about $100 a week in profit, not counting the cost of the campaign. This convinced Munsey to invest further in building circulation.<ref name=":7">Munsey (1907), pp. 22β24.</ref><ref name=":6" /> A new editor, [[Matthew White (editor)|Matthew White]], took over from Douglas at the end of the year; White had been the founder and editor of ''The Boys' World'', which Munsey bought in 1887,<ref name=":0" /> merging the subscriptions with ''The Golden Argosy''.<ref>Cox (2000), pp. 37, 280.</ref><ref>Moskowitz (1970), p. 315.</ref> At the same time Munsey doubled the page count and increased the price from five cents to six.<ref name=":7" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 200 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00200.htm#BOT |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729184242/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00200.htm |archive-date=July 29, 2023 |access-date=July 29, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 201 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00201.htm#TOP |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729184459/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00201.htm |archive-date=July 29, 2023 |access-date=July 29, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> In 1887 he began a national advertising campaign, with traveling representatives as far west as Nebraska, and a mail campaign for points further west.<ref name=":6">Britt (1972), pp. 76β77.</ref> He wrote another story, ''The Boy Broker'', for serialization, beginning in the February 5, 1887 issue,<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 677 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00677.htm#A41 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729081045/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00677.htm |archive-date=July 29, 2023 |access-date=July 29, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> and credited it with adding 20,000 to ''The Golden Argosy''<nowiki/>'s circulation.<ref name=":6" /><ref>Munsey (1907), p. 29.</ref> Over five months the campaign gave away 11,500,000 sample issues: his debt ballooned to $95,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|95000|1887|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}), but he was now clearing $1,500 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|1500|1887|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) a week in profit, and circulation reached 115,000 in May 1887.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":11">Munsey (1907), p. 30.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Britt quotes a circulation of 150,000, but this appears to be an error as Munsey twice cites a circulation peak of 115,000 in his own account of events.<ref name=":6" /><ref>Munsey (1907), p. 49.</ref><ref name=":11" />|group=note}} === ''The Argosy'' === {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapsible" style="max-width:400px; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 9pt; margin-left: 2em; text-align: center; float: right" |+ class=nowrap | Monthly issue data for ''The Argosy'' from 1894 to 1917<ref name=":12" /> |- ! !Jan !Feb !Mar !Apr !May !Jun !Jul !Aug !Sep !Oct !Nov !Dec |- !1894 | | | | bgcolor="#ccffff" |18/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |18/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |18/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |18/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |18/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |18/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |19/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |19/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |19/3 |- !1895 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |19/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |19/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |19/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |20/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |20/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |20/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |20/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |20/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |20/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |21/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |21/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |21/3 |- !1896 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |21/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |21/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |21/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |22/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |22/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |22/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |22/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |22/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |22/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |23/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |23/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |23/3 |- !1897 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |23/4 | 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bgcolor="#ccffff" |80/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |80/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |80/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |80/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |81/1 |- !1916 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |81/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |81/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |81/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |82/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |82/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |82/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |82/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |83/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |83/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |83/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |83/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |84/1 |- !1917 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |84/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |84/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |84/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |85/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |85/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |85/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |85/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |86/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |86/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |86/3 | | |- | colspan="13" style="font-size: 9pt; text-align:left; line-height: 10pt;" |{{legend0|#ccffff|Matthew White}}<br />Matthew White was editor throughout this period, though Mott reports that he spent a year or more in London working for Munsey during 1913β1914,<ref name=":17">Mott (1957b), pp. 417β423.</ref><ref name=":14" /><ref name=":13" /> and according to Moskowitz the editorial duties for ''The Argosy'' were handled by Bob Davis, the editor of ''All-Story Weekly'', during this time.<ref name=":17" /> |} The improvement in Munsey's finances in 1887 was temporary, though before Munsey realized it he had given up his cheap rooms and moved to the [[Windsor Hotel (Manhattan)|Windsor Hotel]] on Fifth Avenue.<ref name=":8">Britt (1972), pp. 78β79.</ref> Another advertising campaign was launched; it cost $20,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|20000|1887|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) but produced no results, and Munsey began to experiment with the magazine, trying to find a profitable approach. He shortened the title to just ''The Argosy'' with the December 1, 1888 issue to make it sound more like an adventure magazine and less like a children's paper.<ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Magazine Issue: Page 8 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/j00008.htm#TOP |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230129200931/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/j00008.htm |archive-date=January 29, 2023 |access-date=July 29, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref name=":17" /> He later commented that he had not realized the problems attendant on magazines for childrenβthey grew up quickly and dropped their subscriptions, so circulation was very difficult to maintain, and because they had little spending power it was hard to interest advertisers.<ref>Munsey (1907), pp. 21β22.</ref> He reduced the page size and increased the page count, and added illustrated covers, and cut the price, and then reversed all these changes, but nothing worked.<ref name=":8" /> In 1890 circulation dropped to the point where it no longer covered its own costs.<ref>Munsey (1907), p. 35.</ref> The expenses Munsey had taken on after the successful campaign in 1887 were now a drain, and when his friend Fogler visited, and was impressed that Munsey was living at the Windsor, he told Fogler, "I can't afford it ... but it is a means to an end. It gives me standing to have the acquaintance of the men I meet here."<ref name=":8" /> Fogler also discovered on that visit that Munsey had a personal pew in a popular church, which cost him $1,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|2500|1887|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}) a year.<ref name=":8" /> Munsey launched two more periodicals, hoping that they would establish themselves as profitable before ''The Argosy'' failed completely.<ref name=":9">Britt (1972), pp. 80β81.</ref> The first was ''[[Munsey's Magazine|Munsey's Weekly]]'', launched on February 2, 1889;<ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Magazine Issue: Page 30 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/j00030.htm#A102 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506045428/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/j00030.htm |archive-date=May 6, 2023 |access-date=July 29, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> the second was a newspaper, the [[Daily Continent|''Daily'' ''Continent'']], which he took over in February 1891 and gave up on four months later.<ref name=":9" /><ref>Ingham (1983), p. 994.</ref> The ''Weekly'' was not a success either, and in late 1891 Munsey converted it into a monthly, ''[[Munsey's Magazine]]'', priced at twenty-five cents (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|0.25|1891|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}). Fogler, now working for a bank in Kansas, arranged a loan for Munsey that grew to $8,000 (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|8000|1891|r=-3}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}), with half Munsey's stock as collateral. During the [[Panic of 1893]] the bank called in the loan, and Munsey offered Fogler the stock if he would take over the loan. Fogler declined, and Munsey had to arrange for another loan at 18% interest to cover the repayment.<ref name=":9" /> In October{{nbsp}}1893 Munsey cut the price of ''Munsey's Magazine'' to ten cents (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|0.1|1882|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}). He had to struggle to distribute it at this price, since the [[American News Company]] had a monopoly on magazine distribution and had little interest in a low-priced magazine. By the February issue Munsey was printing 200,000 copies, and it soon became successful enough to guarantee his financial security.<ref>Britt (1972), pp. 83β87.</ref> ''The Argosy'' did not share in the success of ''Munsey's Magazine''; circulation continued to decline, but Munsey kept it going, as he later said, "as a matter of sentiment", and to see what could be made of it. From a high of 115,000 the circulation fell to 9,000 for the March 24, 1894 issue, which was the last one as a weekly. Munsey switched it to monthly publication with the April issue, and circulation jumped to 40,000 immediately, but went no higher for over two years.<ref name=":10">Munsey (1907), pp. 48β51.</ref> With the October{{nbsp}}1896 issue Munsey changed it to carry fiction only, targeted at adults rather than children.<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":13" /><ref name=":12" /> Starting with the December issue he began printing it on cheap wood-pulp paper,<ref name=":10" /><ref name=":13">Ashley (1985), pp. 103β108.</ref> making ''The Argosy'' the first [[pulp magazine]].<ref name=":14">Moonan (1990), pp. 29β32.</ref> The all-fiction format brought about another jump in circulation to 80,000.<ref name=":10" /> In 1898, with circulation still at around 80,000, Munsey bought ''[[Peterson's Magazine]]'' and merged it into ''The Argosy''.<ref name=":10" /><ref>Mott (1957a), p. 311.</ref> A year or so later circulation began to climb again: Munsey spent nothing on advertising, but circulation reached 300,000 in 1902, and hit half a million in 1907, 25 years after it was launched.<ref name=":10" /> The magazine absorbed two other Munsey publications, ''[[The Puritan (magazine)|The Puritan]]'' and ''[[Junior Munsey]]'', in 1902, and Munsey credited some of the increase in circulation to the mergers.<ref>Munsey (1902), p. 155.</ref> {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed collapsible" style="max-width:400px; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 8pt; margin-left: 2em; text-align: center; float: right" |+ class="nowrap" |Weekly issue data for ''The Argosy'' from 1917 to 1942<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":32">Bradfield (March 1942), p. 29.</ref> ! ! !January !February !March !April !May !June !July !August !September !October !November !December |- ! rowspan="2" |1917 |'''Dates:''' | | | | | | | | | | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 |- |'''Volume:''' | | | | | | | | | | bgcolor="#ccffff" |87/1 to 87/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |88/1 to 88/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |89/1 to 90/1 |- style="border-top: 2px solid" ! rowspan="2" |1918 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |90/2 to 91/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |91/2 to 92/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |92/2 to 93/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |93/3 to 94/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |94/3 to 95/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |95/3 to 96/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |96/4 to 97/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |97/4 to 98/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |99/1 to 99/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |100/1 to 100/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |101/1 to 102/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |102/2 to 103/1 |- |- style="border-top: 2px solid" ! rowspan="2" |1919 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,25,22 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |103/2 to 104/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |104/2 to 105/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |105/2 to 106/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |106/3 to 107/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |107/3 to 108/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |108/4 to 109/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |109/4 to 110/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |110/4 to 111/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |112/1 to 112/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |113/1 to 113/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |114/1 to 115/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |115/2 to 116/1 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1920 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |116/2 to 117/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |117/3 to 118/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |118/3 to 199/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |119/3 to 120/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |120/3 to 121/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |121/4 to 122/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |122/4 to 123/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |124/1 to 124/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |125/1 to 125/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |126/1 to 127/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |127/2 to 128/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |128/2 to 129/1 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1921 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |129/2 to 130/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |130/3 to 131/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |131/3 to 132/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |132/3 to 133/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |133/4 to 134/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |134/4 to 135/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |135/2 to 135/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |136/1 to 136/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |136/4 to 137/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |137/3 to 138/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |138/2 to 138/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |138/6 to 139/4 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1922 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |139/5 to 140/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |140/3 to 140/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |141/1 to 141/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |141/5 to 142/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |142/4 to 143/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |143/2 to 143/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |143/6 to 144/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |144/5 to 145/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |145/3 to 146/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |146/2 to 146/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |146/6 to 147/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |147/4 to 148/2 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1923 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |148/3 to 148/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |149/1 to 149/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |149/5 to 150/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |150/4 to 151/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |151/2 to 151/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |151/6 to 152/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |152/5 to 153/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |153/3 to 153/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |153/6 to 154/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |154/6 to 155/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |155/4 to 156/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |156/2 to 156/6 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1924 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |157/1 to 157/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |157/5 to 158/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |158/3 to 159/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |159/2 to 159/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |159/6 to 160/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |160/5 to 161/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |161/3 to 161/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |162/1 to 162/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |162/6 to 163/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |163/4 to 164/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |164/2 to 164/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |165/1 to 165/4 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1925 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |165/5 to 166/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |166/4 to 167/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |167/2 to 167/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |167/6 to 168/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |168/4 to 169/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |169/3 to 169/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |170/1 to 170/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |170/5 to 171/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |171/4 to 172/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |172/2 to 172/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |173/1 to 173/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |173/5 to 174/2 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1926 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,.25 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |174/3 to 175/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |175/2 to 175/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |175/6 to 176/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |176/4 to 177/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |177/2 to 177/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |178/1 to 178/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |178/5 to 179/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |179/4 to 180/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |180/2 to 180/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |180/6 to 181/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |181/5 to 182/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |182/3 to 182/6 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1927 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |183/1 to 183/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |183/6 to 184/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |184/4 to 185/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |185/2 to 185/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |186/1 to 186/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |186/5 to 187/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |187/3 to 188/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |188/2 to 188/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |188/6 to 189/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |189/4 to 190/2 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |190/3 to 190/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |191/1 to 191/5 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1928 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |1,8,15,22,29 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ccffff" |191/6 to 192/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |192/4 to 193/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |193/2 to 193/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |194/1 to 194/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |194/5 to 195/2 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |195/3 to 196/1 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |196/2 to 196/5 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |196/6 to 197/3 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |197/4 to 198/2 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |198/3 to 198/6 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |199/1 to 199/4 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |199/5 to 200/3 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! 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rowspan="2" |1931 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |5,12,19,26 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |217/6 to 218/4 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |218/5 to 219/2 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |219/3 to 219/6 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |220/1 to 220/4 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |220/5 to 221/3 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |221/4 to 222/1 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |222/2 to 222/5 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |222/6 to 223/4 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |223/5 to 224/2 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |224/3 to 225/1 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |225/2 to 225/5 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |225/6 to 226/3 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1932 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |3,10,17,24,31 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |226/4 to 227/2 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |227/3 to 227/6 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |228/1 to 228/4 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |228/5 to 229/3 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |229/4 to 230/1 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |230/2 to 230/5 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |230/6 to 231/4 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |231/5 to 232/2 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |232/3 to 232/6 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |233/1 to 233/5 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |233/6 to 234/3 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |234/4 to 235/2 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1933 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |5,12,19 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |2,9,16,23,30 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |235/3 to 235/6 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |236/1 to 236/4 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |236/5 to 237/2 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |237/3 to 238/1 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |238/2 to 238/5 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |238/6 to 239/3 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |239/4 to 240/2 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |240/3 to 240/5 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |240/6 to 241/4 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |241/5 to 242/2 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |242/3 to 242/6 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |243/1 to 243/5 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1934 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#fac090" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#fac090" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#fac090" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#fac090" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#fac090" |1,8,15,22,29 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |243/6 to 244/3 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |244/4 to 245/1 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |245/2 to 245/6 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |246/1 to 246/4 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |246/5 to 247/2 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |247/3 to 248/1 | bgcolor="#c3f9bf" |248/2 to 248/5 | bgcolor="#fac090" |248/6 to 249/3 | bgcolor="#fac090" |249/4 to 250/2 | bgcolor="#fac090" |250/3 to 250/6 | bgcolor="#fac090" |251/1 to 251/4 | bgcolor="#fac090" |251/5 to 252/3 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1935 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#fac090" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#fac090" |2,9,16,23 | bgcolor="#fac090" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#fac090" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#fac090" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#fac090" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#fac090" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#fac090" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#fac090" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#fac090" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#fac090" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#fac090" |7,14,21,28 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#fac090" |252/4 to 253/1 | bgcolor="#fac090" |253/2 to 253/5 | bgcolor="#fac090" |253/6 to 254/4 | bgcolor="#fac090" |254/5 to 255/2 | bgcolor="#fac090" |255/3 to 255/6 | bgcolor="#fac090" |256/1 to 256/5 | bgcolor="#fac090" |256/6 to 257/3 | bgcolor="#fac090" |257/4 to 258/2 | bgcolor="#fac090" |258/3 to 258/6 | bgcolor="#fac090" |259/1 to 259/4 | bgcolor="#fac090" |259/5 to 260/3 | bgcolor="#fac090" |260/4 to 261/1 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1936 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#fac090" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#fac090" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#fac090" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#fac090" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |5,12,19,26 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#fac090" |261/2 to 261/5 | bgcolor="#fac090" |261/6 to 262/4 | bgcolor="#fac090" |262/5 to 263/2 | bgcolor="#fac090" |263/3 to 263/6 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |264/1 to 264/5 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |264/6 to 265/3 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |265/4 to 266/1 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |266/2 to 266/6 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |267/1 to 267/4 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |267/5 to 268/3 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |268/4 to 269/1 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |269/2 to 269/5 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! 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rowspan="2" |1939 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#92d050" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#92d050" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#92d050" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#92d050" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#92d050" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#92d050" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |2,9,16,23,30 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#92d050" |287/3 to 287/6 | bgcolor="#92d050" |288/1 to 288/4 | bgcolor="#92d050" |288/5 to 289/2 | bgcolor="#92d050" |289/3 to 290/1 | bgcolor="#92d050" |290/2 to 290/5 | bgcolor="#92d050" |290/6 to 291/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |291/4 to 292/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |292/3 to 292/6 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |293/1 to 293/5 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |293/6 to 294/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |294/4 to 295/1 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |295/2 to 295/6 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1940 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |3,10,17,24 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |7,14,21,28 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |296/1 to 296/4 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |296/5 to 297/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |297/3 to 298/1 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |298/2 to 298/5 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |298/6 to 299/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |299/4 to 300/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |300/3 to 300/6 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |301/1 to 301/5 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |301/6 to 302/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |302/4 to 303/1 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |303/2 to 303/6 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |304/1 to 304/4 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1941 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |4,11,18,25 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1,8,15,22 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1,8,15,22,29 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |3,10,17,24,31 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |7,14,21,28 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |5,12,19,26 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |2,9,16,23,30 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |6,13,20,27 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |4 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |1,15,29 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |13,27 |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |304/5 to 305/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |305/3 to 305/6 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |306/1 to 306/5 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |306/6 to 307/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |307/4 to 308/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |308/3 to 308/6 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |309/1 to 309/4 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |309/5 to 310/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |310/4 to 311/1 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |311/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |311/3 to 311/5 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |311/6 to 312/1 |- |- style="border-top: 2px black solid" ! rowspan="2" |1942 |'''Dates:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |10,24 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |7,21 | bgcolor="#d3d4d3" |7,15 | bgcolor="#d3d4d3" |1,15 | | | | | | | | |- |'''Volume:''' | bgcolor="#ffff99" |312/2 to 312/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |312/4 to 312/5 | bgcolor="#d3d4d3" |312/6 to 313/1 | bgcolor="#d3d4d3" |313/2 to 313/3 | | | | | | | | |- | colspan="14" style="font-size: 9pt; text-align:left; line-height: 10pt;" |{{legend0|#ccffff|Matthew White}} {{legend0|#e6b9b8|A. H. Bittner (June 1928 β June 1931}} {{legend0|#c3f9bf|Don Moore (July 1931 β July 1934)}} {{legend0|#fac090|Frederick Clayton (August 1934 β April 1936)}} {{legend0|#ccc0d0|Jack Byrne (May 1936 β June 1937)}} {{legend0|#92d050|Chandler H. Whipple (July 1937 β June 1939)}} {{legend0|#ffff99|George W. Post (July 1939 β February 1942}} {{legend0|#d3d4d3|Harry Gray (March 1942 β August 1942)}} |} ''The Argosy''<nowiki/>'s circulation fell from this peak, and it returned to a weekly schedule in 1917.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":17" /> In 1906 Munsey had started ''[[The Railroad Man's Magazine]]'', which carried both fiction and non-fiction; after the January 18, 1919 issue it was merged into ''The Argosy'', which was briefly retitled ''Argosy and Railroad Man's Magazine'', reverting to just ''Argosy'' with the May 31 issue.<ref name=":19" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Railroad Magazine |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/railroad.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808233143/http://www.philsp.com/mags/railroad.html |archive-date=August 8, 2022 |access-date=August 3, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref name=":24">{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines 2 |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_2.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918112524/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_2.html |archive-date=September 18, 2023 |access-date=August 3, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> Paper shortages caused by [[World War I]] forced a reduction in the page count of both ''The Argosy'' and ''[[All-Story Weekly]]'', another Munsey fiction magazine, and costs continued to go up after the war. Most of the other major fiction magazines of the day increased their price to twenty cents (${{formatprice|{{inflation|US|0.20|1914|r=2}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}). At fifteen cents, ''[[Top-Notch Magazine]]'' was an exception, but Munsey kept both ''Argosy'' and ''All-Story'' at only ten cents. In 1920 he merged ''All-Story Weekly'' into ''The Argosy'', explaining that this let him keep the price of the combined magazine at ten cents, while saving "all the cost of stories in one magazine, all the cost of the editorial force, all the cost of typesetting, all the cost of making electrotype plates, and many other minor costs".<ref name=":15">Moskowitz (1970), pp. 430β431.</ref> [[Sam Moskowitz]], a magazine historian, argues that the low price, sustained through most of the 1920s, must have been a strong benefit to circulation, which is reported to have reached half a million when the combined magazine, now titled ''Argosy All-Story Weekly'', debuted. Circulation stayed at about 400,000 during the following decade.<ref name=":15" /> The first issue of the new magazine added pages to allow it to carry continuations of the serials that had been running in each of the two magazines before the merger, and Moskowitz comments that this approach "was such that it is doubtful that a single nonduplicating reader was lost from either magazine".<ref name=":15" /> The page count gradually dropped again as the serials were completed, from 224 after the merger to 144 at the end of the year.<ref name=":15" /> === Dewart, Popular Publications, and later revivals === {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible collapsible mw-collapsed" style="max-width:400px; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 9pt; margin-left: 2em; text-align: center; float: right" |+ class=nowrap | Monthly issue data for ''The Argosy'' from 1942 to 1970<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":32" /> |- ! !Jan !Feb !Mar !Apr !May !Jun !Jul !Aug !Sep !Oct !Nov !Dec |- !1942 | | | | | bgcolor="#d3d4d3" 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Lewis (Jul 1953 β Sep 1954)}} {{legend0|#fac090|James B. O'Connell (Oct 1954)}} {{legend0|#ccc0d0|[[Ken W. Purdy]] (Nov 1954 β May 1955)}} {{legend0|#92d050|Hal Steeger (May 1970 β Dec 1970)}} |} In December 1925 Munsey had appendicitis, and never recovered; he died, aged 71, on December 22.<ref>Britt (1972), p. 296.</ref> The Frank A. Munsey Corporation, which continued as the publisher, was sold to [[William Thompson Dewart|William Dewart]], who had been working for Munsey.<ref>Moonan (1990), pp. 29β32; Anonymous (December 31, 1925), p. 5; Anonymous (September 28, 1942), p. 24; Mott (1957b), pp. 417β423.</ref> Matthew White, who had been editor since 1886, was finally replaced by [[A. H. Bittner]] in 1928. Bittner stayed as editor for three years; and his successors throughout the 1930s each lasted between one and three years.<ref name=":12" /> In October{{nbsp}}1929 ''Munsey's Magazine'' and ''Argosy All-Story Weekly'' were combined and immediately split again into two magazines: one was titled ''[[All-Story Combined with Munsey's]]'', and the other continued as ''Argosy''.<ref>Mott (1957b), p. 618.</ref><ref name=":19">{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210174332/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy.html |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |access-date=August 3, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> In 1932 [[Don Moore (editor)|Don Moore]], who had become editor in July{{nbsp}}1931,<ref>Anonymous (July 1931), p. 18.</ref><ref>Moore (July 1931), p. 5.</ref> bought two stories from Frank Morgan Mercer that turned out to have been copied from earlier stories by [[H. Bedford-Jones]] and [[James Francis Dwyer]]. Up to this point ''Argosy'' paid on acceptance; because of the [[plagiarism]] the policy was changed to pay new authors only after publication, to allow plagiarism to be detected.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 646 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/n00646.htm#A23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230913205843/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00646.htm#A23 |archive-date=September 13, 2023 |access-date=September 14, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref name="BJ35">Bedford-Jones (1932), pp. 35β36.</ref><ref>Moore (February 1933), p. 47.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Bedford-Jones tracked down Mercer's address and went to see him, taking a police officer with him in the hope of taking him to court. To his surprise he discovered that Mercer had been quite unaware that plagiarism was illegal, and had thought only that he had come up with a clever way of making money. The police officer commented to Bedford-Jones that Mercer "didn't belong in jail, but in the bughouse".<ref name="BJ35" />|group=note}} Moore left to work at ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' in mid-1934, and was replaced by Frederick Clayton, who had been associate editor.<ref>Anonymous (August 1934), p. 16.</ref> In 1936 Clayton was hired by ''[[Liberty (general interest magazine)|Liberty]]'', and Jack Byrne, who had been working at [[Fiction House]], took over as editor for a year before being replaced by Chandler Whipple.<ref>Bradfield (1936), p. 22.</ref><ref>Anonymous (July 1937), p. 36.</ref> Another Munsey magazine, ''[[All-American Fiction]]'', was merged into ''Argosy'' in 1938.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=All-American Fiction |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/all_american_fiction.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804220836/http://www.philsp.com/mags/all_american_fiction.html |archive-date=August 4, 2023 |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref name=":19" /> In 1939 Whipple resigned and George Post, who had been part of Whipple's editorial team, became editor.<ref>Whipple (1939), p. 2.</ref><ref>Bradfield (1939), p. 17.</ref> ''Argosy'' remained a weekly until the October 4, 1941 issue, then switched to an irregular schedule with two issues a month.<ref name=":29">{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines 4 |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_4.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928062836/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_4.html |archive-date=September 28, 2022 |access-date=August 3, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> Post left in early 1942, and was briefly replaced by Harry Gray and then for two issues by Burroughs Mitchell.<ref name=":32" /><ref>Bradfield (September 1942), p. 15.</ref><ref name=":12" /> In September{{nbsp}}1942 [[Popular Publications]], a pulp magazine publisher, bought all the Munsey pulp magazine titles from Dewart, including ''Argosy'',<ref name=":16">Anonymous (September 28, 1942), p. 24.</ref><ref>Ashley (2000), p. 222.</ref> which by this time had a circulation of only 40,000 to 50,000.<ref>Moonan (1990), pp. 29β32; Peterson (1972), p. 316; Anonymous (May 17, 1954), p. 62; Anonymous (June 14, 1948), p. 61.</ref>{{#tag:ref|Peterson gives a circulation of 11,500 at the time of the acquisition,<ref name=":26" /> and ''Newsweek'' gives it variously as 40,000 and 47,000.<ref name=":27" /><ref name=":28" /> Moonan gives a figure of 40,000.<ref name=":14" />|group=note}} The new editor was [[Rogers Terrill]]. ''Argosy'' ceased to use pulp paper from 1943, becoming a [[Slick (magazine format)|slick]] magazine.<ref name=":20">{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines 5 |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_5.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804222624/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_5.html |archive-date=August 4, 2023 |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref name=":25">Peterson (1972), pp. 314β315.</ref> In early 1944 [[Harry Steeger]], the owner of Popular, took over the editorship for five years,<ref name=":12" /> hiring Jerry Mason away from ''[[This Week (magazine)|This Week]]'' in 1949 to replace himself as editor.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":30" /> Mason stayed for four years; when he left in mid-1953 Howard Lewis was promoted to editor from executive editor.<ref>Lewis (1953), p. 1.</ref><ref>Anonymous (May 1953), p. 46.</ref> Lewis resigned in 1954,<ref name=":42" /> and was replaced for one issue (October 1954) by James O'Connell,<ref name=":12" /> who had been fiction editor of Argosy since 1948.<ref>Bradfield (1948), p. 41.</ref> [[Ken Purdy]], the editor of ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s main rival, ''[[True (magazine)|True]]'', was hired,<ref name=":26">Peterson (1972), p. 316.</ref><ref name=":27">Anonymous (May 17, 1954), p. 62.</ref><ref name=":42">Anonymous (June 1954), p. 13.</ref> but stayed less than a year.<ref name=":12" /> Steeger later said that hiring Purdy was the most expensive mistake he ever made; ''Argosy'' ran at a substantial loss under his editorship.<ref>Hardin (1977), p. 12.</ref> Steeger then took the editing chair again.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":30">Anonymous (September 19, 1949), p. 58.</ref> Circulation prospered under Popular, reaching 600,000 in June{{nbsp}}1948, and 1.25{{nbsp}}million by 1954.<ref name=":27" /><ref name=":28">Anonymous (June 14, 1948), p. 61.</ref> This growth was aided by some lucky publicity, broadcast to millions of radio listeners: after the acquisition by Popular, ''Argosy'' was the subject of a question on the popular [[Take It or Leave It (radio show)|''Take It or Leave It'']] radio show, which referred to it as a pulp magazine. Two weeks later the show's host apologized, and asked the studio audience to chant "''Argosy'' is a slick" on the air.<ref name=":28" /><ref>Anonymous (July 1943), p. 23.</ref> Argosy's circulation remained over a million until at least 1973,<ref name=":26" /><ref>Compaine (1982), p. 53.</ref> and the advertising revenue this provided made the magazine an attractive acquisition target.<ref name=":34">Deutsch (2010), pp. xviβxvii.</ref> Steeger sold Popular Publications to David Geller's Brookside Publications in 1972.<ref name=":34" /><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Popular Publications, Inc. records 1910β1977 |url=https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2456 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603010429/https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2456 |archive-date=June 3, 2023 |access-date=September 17, 2023 |website=The New York Public Library: Archives & Manuscripts}}</ref> In early January 1978 Geller sold the company to the [[Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.|Filipacchi Group]].<ref name=":34" /><ref>Dougherty (1977), p. 74.</ref><ref>Dougherty (1978), p. 74.</ref> The last issue from Popular was dated November/December{{nbsp}}1978.<ref name=":20" /> === Special issues, associated magazines, and revivals === {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible collapsible" style="max-width:400px; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 9pt; margin-left: 2em; text-align: center; float: right" |+ class="nowrap" | Monthly issue data for ''The Argosy'' from 1971 to 1979<ref name=":12" /> |- ! !Jan !Feb !Mar !Apr !May !Jun !Jul !Aug !Sep !Oct !Nov !Dec |- !1971 | bgcolor="#92d050" |372/1 | bgcolor="#92d050" |372/2 | bgcolor="#92d050" |372/3 | bgcolor="#92d050" |372/4 | bgcolor="#92d050" |372/5 | bgcolor="#92d050" |372/6 | bgcolor="#92d050" |373/1 | bgcolor="#92d050" |373/2 | bgcolor="#92d050" |373/3 | bgcolor="#92d050" |373/4 | bgcolor="#92d050" |373/5 | bgcolor="#92d050" |373/6 |- !1972 | bgcolor="#92d050" |374/1 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |374/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |374/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |374/4 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |374/5 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |374/6 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |375/1 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |375/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |375/3 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |375/4 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |375/5 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |375/6 |- !1973 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |376/1 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |376/2 | bgcolor="#ffff99" |376/3 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |376/4 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |376/5 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |376/6 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |377/7 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |377/8 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |377/9 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |377/10 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |377/11 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |377/12 |- !1974 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |379/1 | bgcolor="#ccffff" |379/2 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |379/3 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |379/4 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |379/5 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |379/6 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |380/1 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |380/2 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |380/3 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |280/4 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |280/5 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |280/6 |- !1975 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |281/1 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |281/2 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |281/3 | bgcolor="#e6b9b8" |281/4 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |281/5 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |281/6 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |282/1 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |282/2 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |282/3 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |282/4 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |282/5 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |382/6 |- !1976 | | bgcolor="#eaea57" |383/1 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |383/2 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |383/3 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |383/4 | bgcolor="#eaea57" |383/5 | bgcolor="#fac090" |384/1 | bgcolor="#fac090" |384/2 | bgcolor="#fac090" |384/3 | bgcolor="#fac090" |384/4 | bgcolor="#fac090" |384/5 | bgcolor="#fac090" |384/6 |- !1977 | | bgcolor="#fac090" |384/7 | bgcolor="#fac090" |384/8 | bgcolor="#fac090" |385/3 | bgcolor="#fac090" |385/4 | bgcolor="#fac090" |385/5 | bgcolor="#fac090" |385/6 | bgcolor="#fac090" |386/1 | bgcolor="#fac090" |386/2 | bgcolor="#fac090" |386/3 | bgcolor="#fac090" |386/4 | bgcolor="#fac090" |386/5 |- !1978 | | bgcolor="#fac090" |386/6 | bgcolor="#fac090" |387/1 | bgcolor="#fac090" |387/2 | bgcolor="#fac090" |387/3 | bgcolor="#fac090" |387/4 | bgcolor="#fac090" |387/5 | bgcolor="#fac090" |387/6 | bgcolor="#fac090" |388/1 | bgcolor="#fac090" |388/2 | colspan="2" bgcolor="#fac090" |338/3 |- !1979 | | | | | | | | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |339/1 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |339/2 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |339/3 | bgcolor="#ccc0d0" |339/4 | |- | colspan="13" style="font-size: 9pt; text-align:left; line-height: 10pt;" | {{legend0|#92d050|Hal Steeger (Jan 1971 β Jan 1972)}} {{legend0|#ffff99|[[Milt Machlin]] (Feb 1972 β Mar 1973)}} {{legend0|#ccffff|Gil Paust (Apr 1973 β Feb 1974)}} {{legend0|#e6b9b8|[[Bert Sugar|Randolph Sugar]] (Mar 1974 β Apr 1975)}} {{legend0|#eaea57|Ernest Baxter (May 1975 β Jun 1976)}} {{legend0|#fac090|Lou Sahadi (July 1976 β Nov/Dec 1978)}} {{legend0|#ccc0d0|Garrik Roen (Aug 1979 β Nov 1979)}} |} In addition to the monthly issues, between 1975 and 1978 ''Argosy'' published about fifty special issues on specific topics such as sharks, basketball, guns, or treasure hunting. There were also two associated magazines: ''Argosy UFO'' appeared in July 1976 and ceased publication with its eighth issue, dated Winter 1977/1978. ''Argosy Gun'' produced four issues dated from Fall 1977 and Summer 1978, and may have published more.<ref name=":19" /> ''Argosy'' has been revived four times. Four monthly issues appeared starting in August{{nbsp}}1979, published by Lifetime Wholesalers, Inc. The last issue was dated November{{nbsp}}1979.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":20" /> Between 1989 and 1994, six issues were produced by Richard Kyle, at irregular intervals.<ref name=":21">{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |title=The Argosy: Part 6 β Post 1979 and various related Issues |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_6.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928055957/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_6.html |archive-date=September 28, 2022 |access-date=August 6, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> Three more issues, dated in 2004 and 2005, appeared from [[Lou Anders]] and [[James A. Owen]], with the third issue edited by Owen alone, and retitled ''Argosy Quarterly''. One more issue, from Altus Press, appeared in 2016,<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":21" /> edited by Matthew Moring.<ref>Moring (2016), p. 2.</ref> ==Contents and reception== === Early years === [[File:Golden Argosy 1883 05 19.jpg|alt=A newspaper front page. An illustration in the middle of the page shows a man whipping another man outside a stables|thumb|Cover of ''The Golden Argosy'' for May 19, 1883, featuring the first installment of ''Hector's Inheritance'' by Horatio Alger]] The first issue of ''The Golden Argosy'' included the first installment of two novels: ''Do and Dare, or a Brave Boy's Fight for a Fortune'', by [[Horatio Alger, Jr.|Horatio Alger]], which took the cover page, and ''Nick and Nellie, or God Helps them that Helps Themselves'', by [[Edward S. Ellis]]. There were also short stories and some non-fiction. The target audience was both boys and girls, from ten to twenty years old.<ref>Britt (1972), pp. 62β63.</ref><ref name=":17" /> When Munsey began to write serialized novels for the magazine, starting with ''Afloat in a Great City'' in 1886, he used the same basic plot that Alger had been successful with: rags to riches stories of boys succeeding against the odds.<ref name=":4" /> Other early serials were boys' adventure tales, occasionally with [[science fiction]] ideas such as [[lost race]]s. Multiple serials often ran simultaneously.<ref name=":12" /> Early contributors included [[Harry Castlemon]], whose ''Don Gordon's Shooting-Box'' began serialization in the March 3, 1883 issue;<ref name=":17" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 130 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00130.htm#A26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904182724/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00130.htm |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[Frank H. Converse]], who in addition to an early serial (''A Voyage to the Gold Coast, or Jack Bond's Quest'', beginning in the March 24, 1883 issue) had several short stories in the first couple of years of the magazine;<ref name=":17" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 162 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00162.htm#A25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905053158/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00162.htm |archive-date=September 5, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[Oliver Optic]], (''Making a Man of Himself'', beginning in the October 20, 1883 issue);<ref name=":17" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 574 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00574.htm#A10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905052610/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00574.htm |archive-date=September 5, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> and [[G. A. Henty]] (''Facing Peril: A Tale of the Coal Mines'', from September 5, 1885).<ref name=":17" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 356 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00356.htm#A25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904182726/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00356.htm |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> The magazine's subtitle, ''Freighted with Treasures for Boys and Girls'', was dropped in 1886, though the contents were still aimed at the same youthful readers as before.<ref name=":17" /> [[P. T. Barnum]]'s ''Dick Broadhead: a Story of Wild Animals and the Circus'' was serialized from May to August 1887.<ref name=":17" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 50 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/n00050.htm#A137 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904184206/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/n00050.htm |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> There was little science fiction in the early years; one exception was ''The Conquest of the Moon'', by [[Andre Laurie]], which began serialization in ''The Argosy'' in 1889;<ref name=":13" /> another was William Murray Graydon's ''The River of Darkness; or, Under Africa'' (1890). "When the Redcoats Came to Bennington", an early story by [[Upton Sinclair]], appeared in the December 1895 issue.<ref name=":17" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 703 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00703.htm#A15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904201802/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00703.htm |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> === Pulp era === ==== Editorial policy ==== [[File:ArgosyAllStoryWeekly15Aug1925.jpg|alt=A man and woman sitting at a card table|left|thumb|Cover of the August 15, 1925 issue]] After the change to an all-fiction monthly format in 1896, ''The Argosy'' was a men's and boy's adventure magazine,<ref name=":17" /> though ''[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]'' describes many of the serials in the first decade or so after the change as "still only a little above juvenile adventure stories".<ref name=":12" /> In 1926, [[Albert William Stone]], a fairly prolific pulp author, visited [[Manhattan]] to meet with the editors of the various magazines he had been selling to, and find out more about what their requirements were for submissions.<ref>Stone (2007), pp. 15β16.</ref> Stone had sold several stories to [[Robert Hobart Davis|Bob Davis]], the editor of ''All-Story Weekly'', before its merger with ''The Argosy'', but had never sold to Matthew White, who had been editor of ''The Argosy'' since before the change to pulp format.<ref name=":37">Stone (2007), p. 50.</ref><ref name=":12" /> White had sent Stone an encouraging note in reply to an early submission of his: "Two things I like about this story are its Western atmosphere, and its brevityβtwo thousand five hundred words ... If those hints are of any value to you, try us again."<ref name=":37" /> In the interview with Stone, White expanded upon what he was looking for. "I require yarns ... that violate the traditions relative to 'logical development'. By this I mean that I do not want the story developed in what is commonly called the 'natural' way. I require ''unexpected'' developmentβsurprises at every turn it is possible to have them without destroying the convincingness of the story ... In other words, stories that are a constant challenge to the author's inventive ability, one situation after another, and that keep the writer perspiring freely."<ref>Stone (2007), pp. 36β37.</ref> Ed Hulse, a historian of pulp magazines, while generally praising the quality of the fiction in ''Argosy'' during the pulp era, comments that during the 1920s some "bland, conventional dramas" appeared in the magazine, by writers such as [[Edgar Franklin]], [[Isabel Ostrander]], and [[E. J. Rath]]. Hulse suggests that this editorial policy was aimed at attracting more women readers to the magazine.<ref>Hulse (2013), p. 49.</ref> After White's editorship, and for the next fifteen years, the requirements that ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s editors sent to writers' magazines such as ''[[Writer's Digest]]'' and ''[[The Author & Journalist|Author & Journalist]]'' emphasized that they were looking for stories focused on action, with a masculine point of view. Bittner's comments in 1928 asked for "any good clean story with sound plot, rapid-fire action and strong masculine appeal", and gave a long list of genres all of which were acceptableβeven romance so long as "the love element is not unduly stressed".<ref>Bittner (July 1928), pp. 39, 42.</ref> In 1931 Moore outlined the stories to be excluded: "love or domestic tales, sex stories, stories with a predominant woman interest or told from a womanβs viewpoint".<ref>Moore (July 1932), p. 54.</ref> In 1935 Clayton provided a list of hackneyed plots to be avoided, including escaping convicts, an underwater adventure in which the hero fights an octopus and a giant clam as well as the villain, and a legionnaire who "dies gloriously for Dear Old France".<ref>Thomas (October 1935), p. 35.</ref> The policy of action stories told from a male viewpoint continued through the rest of the decade.<ref>Bradfield (March 1937), p. 22; Byrne (March 1937), p. 60; Bradfield (June 1939), p. 35; Whipple (July 1939), p. 2; Bradfield (July 1939), p. 17.</ref> ==== New writers ==== [[File:Argosy 190510.jpg|alt=A man rowing a canoe|thumb|Cover of the October 1905 issue]] Many writers who later became well-known sold to ''The Argosy'' early in their careers. [[William MacLeod Raine]]'s first story, "The Luck of Eustace Blount", appeared in the March 1899 issue.<ref>Raine (1921), pp. 200β201.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 622 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00622.htm#A40 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904141529/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00622.htm |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[William Wallace Cook]] contributed numerous serials in the first decade of the 20th century, beginning with ''The Spur of Necessity'' in the September{{nbsp}}1900 issue after half-a-dozen sales to other markets.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 163 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00163.htm#A36 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904191923/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00163.htm |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=September 5, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 203 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00203.htm#A200 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905221221/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00203.htm |archive-date=September 5, 2023 |access-date=September 5, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> Cook wrote adventure fiction with elements of satire, an unusual combination for the pulps.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clute |first=John |date=March 27, 2023 |title=SFE: Cook, William Wallace |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cook_william_wallace |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723005601/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cook_william_wallace |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |access-date=September 5, 2023 |website=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]}}</ref> [[James Branch Cabell]]'s first sale was to ''The Argosy''; his "An Amateur Ghost" appeared in the February{{nbsp}}1902 issue.<ref>Freeman (2016), p. 103.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 113 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00113.htm#A24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904223618/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00113.htm |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[William Hamilton Osborne]]'s first sale was also to ''The Argosy'', but after paying for it White returned the story to Osborne as the plot was too similar to other stories that had appeared elsewhere. It did eventually appear in the New York ''[[New York Daily News (19th century)|Daily News]]'', but Osborne's first appearance in print was in ''The Argosy'' with "Turner's Luck with Rouge et Noir", in the September 1902 issue.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 576 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00576.htm#A20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605063127/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/i00576.htm |archive-date=June 5, 2023 |access-date=September 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>Osborne (1921), pp. 185β188.</ref> [[Louis Joseph Vance]], the creator of the character [[Lone Wolf (character)|The Lone Wolf]], published most of his fiction in ''[[The Popular Magazine]]'', but his first two sales were to Munsey, including ''The Coil of Circumstance'', a serial that began in the November 1903 ''Argosy''.<ref>Mayer (2012), p. 4.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 787 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00787.htm#A4 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905231440/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00787.htm |archive-date=September 5, 2023 |access-date=September 5, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[Albert Payson Terhune]], later the author of ''[[Lad, A Dog|Lad: A Dog]]'', frequently published in the Munsey magazines early in his career.<ref name=":23">{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 757 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00757.htm#A31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906005725/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00757.htm |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |access-date=September 6, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>Litvag (1977), p. 114.</ref> His first sale to ''The Argosy'' was "The Fugitive", a novella that began serialization in the August 1905 issue, and he sold a dozen more stories to the magazine over the next few years.<ref name=":23" /> An early story by [[Mary Roberts Rinehart]], "The Misadventures of a Pearl Necklace", appeared in February the following year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 639 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00639.htm#A35 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906215947/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00639.htm |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |access-date=September 6, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> ==== Science fiction and fantasy ==== [[Image:Metal monster sharp.jpg|thumb|Cover for the story "[[The Metal Monster]]" by [[A. Merritt]] (August 7, 1920)|left]]The first pulp issue, in December 1896, included a science fiction story, "Citizen 504", by C. H. Palmer, and science fiction featured regularly thereafter.<ref name=":13" /> Five science fiction adventure novels by William Wallace Cook appeared, starting in 1903 with ''A Round Trip to the Year 2000, or A Flight Through Time''. Lost race stories continued to appear, such as [[Frank Aubrey]]'s ''A Queen of Atlantis'' (1899), Frank Savile's ''Beyond the Great South Wall'' (1899β1900),<ref name=":12" /> and [[Perley Poore Sheehan]]'s ''[[The Abyss of Wonders]]'' (1915), described by Hulse as "arguably the finest lost race novel ever to appear in a Munsey magazine".<ref name=":39" /> [[Francis Stevens]] contributed another lost world novel, ''The Citadel of Fear'', in 1918.<ref name=":39" /> Humorous stories about scientific inventions were another theme.<ref name=":12" /> Howard Rogert Garis began selling to ''Argosy'' in 1904; his "Professor Jonkin" stories were lighthearted examples of the genre,<ref>Moskowitz (1976), pp. 167β168.</ref> and other examples came from H.D. Smiley, whose "Bagley's Coagulated Cyclone" and "Bagley's Rain-Machine" appeared in the September 1906 and February 1907 issues.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 871 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00871.htm#A189 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230910163114/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00871.htm |archive-date=September 10, 2023 |access-date=September 10, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>Moskowitz (1968), p. 35.</ref> Some more sophisticated science fiction also appeared, including "Finis", an end of the world story by [[Frank Lillie Pollock]], in June 1906.<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 754 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00754.htm#A106 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230910165135/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00754.htm |archive-date=September 10, 2023 |access-date=September 10, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[George Griffith]], an important early science fiction writer from the UK, published almost none of his work in the US in his lifetime. An exception was ''The Lake of Gold'', serialized in ''The Argosy'' from December 1902 to July 1903, in which a group of Britons and Americans use the riches from a lake of gold in [[Patagonia]] to enforce peace across Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Eggeling |first1=John |last2=Clute |first2=John |name-list-style=amp |date=September 12, 2022 |title=SFE: Griffith, George |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/griffith_george |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230814041147/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/griffith_george |archive-date=August 14, 2023 |access-date=September 9, 2023 |website=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]}}</ref><ref name=":41">Moskowitz (1976), p. 214.</ref>{{#tag:ref|The other work of Griffith's to appear in the US was ''[[Stories of Other Worlds]]'', in 1900, in the US edition of ''[[Pearson's Magazine]]'', which at the time carried the same material as the UK edition.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Ashley |first1=Mike |author-link=Mike Ashley (writer) |last2=Eggeling |first2=John |name-list-style=amp |date=August 7, 2023 |title=SFE: Pearson's Magazine |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pearsons_magazine |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811135246/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pearsons_magazine |archive-date=August 11, 2023 |access-date=September 25, 2023 |website=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]}}</ref> Thus, while two of Griffith's serials were published in the US, only ''The Lake of Gold'' was published in a magazine that was both edited and published in the US.<ref name=":41" /><ref>Moskowitz (1968), p. 34.</ref>|group=note}} ''The Argosy''<nowiki/>'s sister magazine, ''All-Story Weekly'', was the venue for most of the science fiction in the Munsey magazines, but ''Argosy'' printed [[Murray Leinster]]'s first science fiction story, "The Runaway Skyscraper", in 1919.<ref name=":12" />{{#tag:ref|The story had been written at White's request, after Leinster had mentioned in a letter he was working on a story that started "The whole thing began when the clock on the Metropolitan Tower began to run backwards". Once White asked to see it, Leinster "had to write it or admit I was lying".<ref>Moskowitz (1974), p. 47.</ref>|group=note}} Leinster's first sale, "The Atmosphere", had appeared in ''The Argosy'' the previous year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 453 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00453.htm#A47 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906224726/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00453.htm |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |access-date=September 6, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s [[Barsoom]] series had begun in ''All-Story Weekly'', as had his [[Tarzan (book series)|Tarzan]] novels; when the two magazines merged in 1920 later episodes of each series appeared in the combined magazine, ''Argosy All-Story Weekly''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 109 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00109.htm#A18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908174959/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00109.htm |archive-date=September 8, 2023 |access-date=September 8, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[Abraham Merritt]]'s ''[[The Metal Monster]]'' began serialization in the August 7 issue, the third one after the merger,<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 268 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00268.htm#A15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908181148/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00268.htm |archive-date=September 8, 2023 |access-date=September 8, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> and many more science fiction and fantasy stories followed in the next two decades by authors such as [[Ray Cummings]], [[Ralph Milne Farley]], [[Otis Adelbert Kline]], [[Victor Rousseau]], [[Eando Binder]], [[Donald Wandrei]], [[Manly Wade Wellman]], [[Jack Williamson]], [[Arthur Leo Zagat]], and [[Henry Kuttner]].<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" /> Merritt's ''[[The Ship of Ishtar]]'', which was serialized in 1924, was voted ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s most popular story in a reader poll in 1938.<ref name=":13" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 647 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00647.htm#A113 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909175749/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00647.htm |archive-date=September 9, 2023 |access-date=September 9, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> In 1940 and 1941 [[Frederick C. Painton]] published a series of stories in ''Argosy'' about Joel Quaite, a time detective who travels into the past to solve mysteries.<ref>Moskowitz (1976), pp. 155β156.</ref> [[Erle Stanley Gardner]], later famous for his [[Perry Mason]] detective stories, sold "Rain Magic", his first science fiction short story, to ''Argosy'' in 1928, and went on to write several more. Gardner combined science fiction with detective plots in some of these stories, and he was not the only writer to do so: [[Garret Smith]]'s "You've Killed Privacy!" in the July 7, 1928 ''Argosy'' was about using [[Closed-circuit television|CCTV]] to catch criminals, and Leinster's "Darkness on Fifth Avenue", in the November 30, 1929 ''Argosy'', about a device that can bring artificial darkness to an area, was originally intended for the detective pulps.<ref>Moskowitz (1976), pp. 146β147.</ref> ==== Other genres ==== [[File:Argosy 19171110.jpg|alt=A woman and two men in 18th century dress; one of the men is holding a sword out to the other|thumb|Cover of the November 10, 1917 issue]] ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s [[Western fiction]] included [[Zane Grey]]'s ''Last of the Duanes'', which appeared in the September 1914 ''Argosy'',<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 1030 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k01/k01030.htm#A9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920223208/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k01/k01030.htm |archive-date=September 20, 2023 |access-date=September 20, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> and [[Walt Coburn]]'s first story, "The Peace Treaty of the Seven Up", in the July 8, 1922 issue.<ref>Server (2002), pp. 65β66.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 1343 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/i01/i01343.htm#A30 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920223849/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/i01/i01343.htm |archive-date=September 20, 2023 |access-date=September 20, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[Max Brand]], a very prolific Western writer, sold his first pulp stories to ''All-Story'' in 1917, but by the end of the year had begun selling to ''Argosy'' too.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 2238 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/i02/i02238.htm#A36 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921000221/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/i02/i02238.htm |archive-date=September 21, 2023 |access-date=September 21, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref>Server (2002), pp. 35β38.</ref> [[Clarence Mulford]] was the creator of the character [[Hopalong Cassidy]]; the first few stories in the series appeared in other magazines, but many were published in ''Argosy'' in the early 1920s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Series/Imprint: Page 8 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/l00008.htm#A22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230507025704/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/l00008.htm |archive-date=May 7, 2023 |access-date=September 21, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref name=":39">Hulse (2013), pp. 45β49.</ref> [[Robert E. Howard]], best known for his stories about [[Conan the Barbarian]], also wrote Westerns, several of which were published in ''Argosy'' in the mid-1930s.<ref>Hulse (2013), p. 53.</ref> [[O. Henry]] appeared in the March 1904 ''Argosy'' with "Witches Loaves".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 611 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00611.htm#A41 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906215829/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00611.htm |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |access-date=September 6, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[H. Bedford-Jones]], a popular author with over 1,000 stories published in the pulps over his career, sold his first story, "Out of a Stormy Sky", to ''The Argosy'' in 1910, and appeared in its pages regularly for the next four decades.<ref name=":39" /><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Clute |first1=John |last2=Eggeling |first2=John |last3=Halasz |first3=Peter |last4=Hutchison |first4=Don |date=April 9, 2023 |title=SFE: Bedford-Jones, H |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bedford-jones_h |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502052032/https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bedford-jones_h |archive-date=May 2, 2023 |access-date=September 22, 2023 |website=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]}}</ref> Bedford-Jones's series about adventurer John Solomon began with ''The Gate of Farewell'', serialized in the January and February 1914 issues, and continued in ''The Argosy'' and elsewhere for over twenty years.<ref name=":39" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Series/Imprint: Page 41 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/l00041.htm#A26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506212543/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/l00041.htm |archive-date=May 6, 2023 |access-date=September 22, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[George Worts]] published the first of his "Peter the Brazen" series, about an "expert wireless operator and dauntless adventurer", in ''Argosy'' in the October 5, 1918 issue; it became one of the most popular series in the magazine, with all twenty stories appearing in ''Argosy'' into the mid-1930s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Series/Imprint: Page 34 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/l00034.htm#A23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906220205/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/l00034.htm |archive-date=September 6, 2023 |access-date=September 21, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref name=":35">Hulse (2013), pp. 47β48.</ref> Under his own name and a pseudonym, Loring Brent, Worts contributed scores of other stories to ''Argosy'' over the same period.<ref name=":35" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 1044 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n01044.htm#A27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921132441/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n01044.htm |archive-date=September 21, 2023 |access-date=September 21, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[Johnston McCulley]] had launched his [[Zorro]] series in ''All-Story'' in 1919 and more episodes appeared in ''Argosy'' after the two magazines merged.<ref>Hulse (2013), pp. 44, 51.</ref> [[Fred MacIsaac]], one of ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s most popular authors, first appeared in the November 1, 1924 issue with the first installment of his novel ''Nothing but Money''. Most of MacIsaac's work was not science fiction; an exception was ''The Hothouse World'', a serial that ran in ''Argosy'' from February 21 to March 28, 1931.<ref name=":38" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 492 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00492.htm#A4 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922141238/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00492.htm |archive-date=September 22, 2023 |access-date=September 22, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> [[Theodore Roscoe]] was a frequent contributor of adventure stories set in exotic locations such as [[Timbuktu]] and [[Saigon]]. He traveled the world once his writing began to pay him well enough to allow him to do so, and used the experience to add color to his stories.<ref>Server (2002), pp. 226β227.</ref> [[Borden Chase]] sold his first story, "Tunnel Men", to ''Argosy'' in 1934 while he was a laborer on the tunnel being built under the [[East River]] in New York. He became a regular contributor, and his "East River", which appeared in ''Argosy'' in December 1934, was filmed the following year as ''[[Under Pressure (1935 film)|Under Pressure]]''.<ref>Server (2002), pp. 58β59.</ref> ''[[A Ship of the Line|Ship of the Line]]'', an early novel in [[C. S. Forester]]'s stories about [[Horatio Hornblower]], was serialized in Argosy in early 1938.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Name: Page 330 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00330.htm#A191 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922130552/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/n00330.htm |archive-date=22 September 2023 |access-date=22 September 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref><ref name=":40">Hulse (2013), p. 54.</ref> Max Brand, though best known for his Westerns, wrote in many other genres as well, including historical fiction and mystery stories. He was the creator of [[Dr. Kildare]], and four novels in the series appeared in ''Argosy'' between 1938 and 1940.<ref name=":40" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Series/Imprint: Page 25 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/l00025.htm#A32 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506212612/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/l00025.htm |archive-date=May 6, 2023 |access-date=September 22, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> Mystery contributors included [[Cornell Woolrich]], beginning with "Hot Water" in the December 28, 1935 issue,<ref>Server (2002), pp. 278β280.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Index by Date: Page 846 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00846.htm#A8 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922155303/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/i00846.htm |archive-date=September 22, 2023 |access-date=September 22, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> and [[Norbert Davis]].<ref>Server (2002), pp. 77β79.</ref> ==== Art ==== In 1903 Street & Smith launched ''The Popular Magazine'', an early pulp rival to ''The Argosy'' with color art on the cover. Up to this point ''The Argosy'' had had text only on the cover, and no art, but in 1905, probably in response to ''The Popular Magazine'', it began to run limited color art on the cover, and in 1912 it began to use full-color cover art.<ref>Ellis (2017a), p. 8.</ref> At the start of the 1920s the most frequent cover artists for ''Argosy'' were [[Modest Stein]], [[Stockton Mulford]], and [[P. J Monahan]]; by the end of the decade [[Paul Stahr]] and [[Robert Graef]] had taken over most of the covers, and remained the main cover artists until the mid-1930s. Hulse considers the artwork of this era to have been "consistently good".<ref name=":38">Hulse (2013), pp. 50β51.</ref> Towards the end of the 1930s [[Rudolph Belarski]], [[Emmett Watson (illustrator)|Emmett Watson]], and [[George Rozen]] become regular cover artists.<ref name=":40" /> [[Virgil Finlay]] was a popular illustrator for the Munsey magazines at the end of the 1930s and start of the 1940s. When ''Argosy'' planned to reprint ''Seven Footprints to Satan'', one of A. Merritt's novels, in 1939, Merritt persuaded the editor, G. W. Post, to use Finlay as the interior illustrator.<ref>Moskowitz (1976), p. 259.</ref><ref>Weinberg (1988), p. 112.</ref> === Men's magazine era === ==== Transition from pulp format ==== [[File:Gypsy Rose Lee NYWTS 1 (cropped).jpg|alt=A woman smilling|thumb|Gypsy Rose Lee, the author of ''The G-String Murders'', which were part of ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s citation for obscenity in 1942]] In 1942, in an attempt to revive the magazine's fortunes, the all-fiction format was abandoned and articles about [[World War II]] and "sensationalized" news stories were added.<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":31">Anonymous (January 5, 1942), p. 50.</ref> The cover was redesigned starting with the March 7, 1942, issue, with the outline of a jet plane replacing the [[galleon]] behind the title, and a picture of the film star [[Dorothy Lamour]] on the cover instead of the usual adventure-themed cover art.<ref name=":31" /> The title was changed to ''The New Argosy'', though this change was reversed with the August issue.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":29" /> The publication frequency was changed to monthly starting in May.<ref name=":29" /> The new version of ''Argosy'' was almost immediately caught in a crackdown by [[Frank C. Walker|Frank Walker]], the [[United States Postmaster General|Postmaster General]]. The Post Office declared that publishers should consider "decency and good morals" in deciding what could be included in a mailed magazine, and promptly notified dozens of publishers that they had to attend a hearing in Washington or lose their permits. ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s citation from the Post Office listed stories considered to be obscene; the list included ''[[The G-String Murders]]'', a serial by Rose Louise Hovick (better known as the [[burlesque]] performer [[Gypsy Rose Lee]]) that began in May 1942, and "How Paris Apaches Terrorize Nazis in Girl Orgies" and "Sex Outrages by Jap Soldiers", articles in the July and August 1942 issues.<ref>Whitman (1970), p. 41; Barbas (2018), pp. 287β361; {{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 357 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/k00357.htm#A12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230911143502/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/GFI/k00357.htm |archive-date=September 11, 2023 |access-date=September 11, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}; {{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=Magazine Contents Lists: Page 358 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00358.htm#A2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230911143702/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/gfi/k00358.htm |archive-date=September 11, 2023 |access-date=September 11, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> The hearings were thought by most publishers to be pointless, and nobody from Munsey attended. ''Argosy'' briefly lost its permit as a result,<ref name=":18">Barbas (2018), pp. 287β361.</ref>{{#tag:ref|First-class mail was much more expensive than a second-class mailing permit, so the permanent loss of a permit meant the death of the magazine.<ref name=":18" />|group=note}} but did not miss any issues.<ref name=":29" /> When Popular Publications acquired ''Argosy'' at the end of 1942, they announced that it would immediately return to a fiction-only format.<ref>Terrill (December 1942), p. 6.</ref> Richard Abbott, the editor of ''Writer's Digest'', commented that Popular were "again making ''Argosy'' the fine old book it was", and that when they acquired ''Argosy'' it had "recently been degraded by wretched editing".<ref>Abbot (December 1942), p. 6.</ref> In September{{nbsp}}1943, the format changed from pulp to slick, but Popular still planned to print only fiction. Rogers Terrill, the editor, announced that "we have stepped out of the pulp field entirely ... We felt there was room in the country for an all-fiction slick, and we're it."<ref name=":25" /><ref>Anonymous (August 23, 1943), p. 91.</ref> ==== Slick men's magazine era ==== [[File:Henry Steeger and Jerry Mason 1949.png|alt=Two men sitting and talking|thumb|[[Harry Steeger]], the founder of Popular Publications, and Jerry Mason, from 1949 to 1953 the editor of Argosy]] By the end of 1943, the policy had changed back to include feature articles again as well as fiction.<ref>Anonymous (September 1943), p. 7.</ref><ref>Bradfield (December 1943), p. 20.</ref> This made ''Argosy'' a competitor with slick general [[Men's adventure|men's magazines]] such as ''[[True (magazine)|True]]''.<ref name=":25" /> The publisher, Harry Steeger, later explained the reason for the change of focus, arguing that women had been the primary target for advertisers before World War II, but afterwards "new buying pursuits were adopted by the male and it began to be recognized by the advertising agencies that the male was an individual to be reckoned with in the purchase of all types of products ...".<ref name=":25" /> The non-fiction material was mostly written in-house; in 1950 ''Argosy'' rejected over 99% of the unsolicited non-fiction manuscripts it received.<ref>Peterson (1972), p. 122.</ref> After ''Argosy'' was acquired by Popular Publications, less science fiction appeared for a couple of years. Exceptions included some of [[Walter R. Brooks]]' [[Mr. Ed]] stories. The late 1940s saw more science fiction again, with stories by [[Nelson Bond]], [[A. Bertram Chandler]], and [[Robert A. Heinlein]], whose "[[Gentlemen, Be Seated!]]" appeared in the May 1948 issue, and in the 1950s ''Argosy'' published work by [[Ray Bradbury]], [[Arthur C. Clarke]], and [[Philip JosΓ© Farmer]]. In 1977 one of ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s special issues was devoted to science fiction; the stories in it were all reprinted from Popular's ''[[Super Science Stories]]'', rather than from earlier issues of ''Argosy''.<ref name=":12" /> In September 1948 Erle Stanley Gardner began a true-crime column in ''Argosy'' called "The Court of Last Resort".<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Schulz |first=Kathryn |date=January 25, 2016 |title=Dead Certainty |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/dead-certainty |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623215037/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/dead-certainty |archive-date=June 23, 2023 |access-date=November 13, 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref> Gardner enlisted assistance from professional experts to examine the cases of dozens of convicts who maintained their innocence after their appeals were exhausted. The column ran for ten years, ending in October 1958, and was [[The Court of Last Resort|adapted for television as a 26-episode series]] by [[NBC]]. Many of the convictions were eventually overturned.<ref name="Schulz2016">Schulz (2016), p. 60.</ref><ref name=":30" /> == Assessment == [[John Clute]], discussing the American pulp magazines in the first two decades of the twentieth century, has described ''The Argosy'' and its companion ''The All-Story'' as "the most important pulps of their era."<ref name=":33">Clute (1995), p. 43.</ref> In the era before the Second World War, ''Argosy'' was regarded as one of the "Big Four" pulp magazines, along with ''[[Blue Book (magazine)|Blue Book]]'', ''[[Adventure (magazine)|Adventure]]'' and ''[[Short Stories (magazine)|Short Stories]].''<ref>Hulse (2013), p. 39.</ref><ref>Server (1993), p. 50.</ref> In the early 1960s Theodore Peterson, a magazine historian, considered the slick incarnation of ''Argosy'', along with ''True'', to be "the best magazines of their kind".<ref name=":26" /> Peterson suggests that it was the success of these two magazines that led to the expansion of the men's magazine market during the 1950s.<ref name=":26" /> == Additional bibliographic details == === Titles === ''Argosy''<nowiki/>'s title changed many times, either in an attempt to attract more readers, or because of mergers with other magazines.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210174332/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy.html |archive-date=February 10, 2023 |access-date=August 3, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}; {{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines 2 |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_2.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918112524/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_2.html |archive-date=September 18, 2023 |access-date=August 3, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}; {{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines 4 |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_4.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928062836/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_4.html |archive-date=September 28, 2022 |access-date=August 3, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}; {{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines 5 |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_5.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804222624/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_5.html |archive-date=August 4, 2023 |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |+ !Title !Issue dates !Notes |- |''The Golden Argosy'' |December 9, 1882 β November 24, 1888 | |- |''The Argosy'' |December 1, 1888 β January 18, 1919 |Shortened to avoid the implication that it was a children's magazine.<ref name=":17" /> |- |''The Argosy and Railroad Man's Magazine'' |January 25, 1919 β May 24, 1919 |Merged with ''The Railroad Man's Magazine.''<ref name=":24" /> |- |''Argosy'' |May 31, 1919 β July 17, 1920 | |- |''Argosy All-Story Weekly'' |July 24, 1920 β September 28, 1929 |Merged with ''All-Story Weekly.''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stephensen-Payne |first=Phil |date= |title=The Argosy & Related Magazines 3 |url=http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_3.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124102159/http://www.philsp.com/mags/argosy_3.html |archive-date=January 24, 2022 |access-date=September 11, 2023 |website=Galactic Central}}</ref> |- |''Argosy'' |October 5, 1929 β February 21, 1942 |Often ''Argosy Weekly'' on the cover, but just ''Argosy'' on the masthead.<ref name=":19" /> |- |''The New Argosy'' |March 7, 1942 β July 1942 |Part of an attempt to improve circulation.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":31" /> |- |''Argosy'' |August 1942 β March/April 2004 | |- |''Argosy Quarterly'' |Spring 2005 | |- |''Argosy'' |Fall 2016 | |} === Reprint magazines and anthologies === The long history of ''Argosy'' meant that by the 1930s there were many stories readers had heard of but could no longer obtain. In response to reader requests, Munsey launched ''[[Famous Fantastic Mysteries]]'' in 1939 to reprint old stories from both ''Argosy'' and ''All-Story Weekly''. The following year Munsey launched ''[[Fantastic Novels]]'', another reprint magazine, to make longer stories available without needing to serialize them in ''Famous Fantastic Mysteries''. ''Fantastic Novels'' lasted only five issues before being discontinued in 1941, but ''Famous Fantastic Mysteries'' lasted for 81 issues, ceasing publication with the June 1953 issue.<ref>Clareson (1985a), pp. 211β216.</ref><ref name=":36">Clareson (1985b), pp. 241β244.</ref> Popular brought back ''Fantastic Novels'' for another 20 issues between 1948 and 1951, and also produced five issues of ''[[A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine]]'', also as a reprint venue for stories from the old Munsey magazines, between 1949 and 1950.<ref name=":36" /><ref>Sanders (1985), pp. 3β6.</ref> In 1976 Popular published two anthology magazines of stories, mostly science fiction and fantasy, titled ''The Best of Argosy Annual'', though only some of the stories included had originally appeared in ''Argosy''.<ref name=":24" /> A collection of science fiction stories from the early years of ''The Argosy'' was edited by Gene Christie and published in 2010, titled ''The Space Annihilator and Other Early Science Fiction From the Argosy''.<ref name=":12" /> There was a Canadian reprint edition; the first and last known issues were dated April 21, 1924, and July 1960.<ref name=":24" /> == See also == * [[:Category:Works originally published in Argosy (magazine)|Works originally published in ''Argosy'']] ==Notes== {{Reflist|group=note}} ==References== {{Reflist}} == Sources == * {{Cite journal |last=Abbott |first=Richard |date=December 1942 |title=Editor's note |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_writers-digest_1942-12_22/page/6/mode/2up?q=terrill+argosy+wretched+editing |journal=[[Writer's Digest]] |volume=XXIII |issue=2 |pages=6 |ref=none}} * {{Cite news |last=Anonymous |date=November 29, 1882 |title=Home Personals: Here and There About Home Folks |pages=3 |work=[[Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)|Sun-Journal]] |location=Lewiston, Maine |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/sun-journal-home-personals-here-and-the/128960085/ |access-date= |ref=none}} * {{Cite news |last=Anonymous |date=December 31, 1925 |title=Museum Gets Bulk of Munsey Estate; Papers to be Sold |pages=1, 5 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://nyti.ms/45648Dy |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=July 1931 |title=The Author & Journalist's Literary Market Tips Gathered Monthly from Authoritative Sources |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_author-journalist_1931-07_14/page/18/mode/2up?q=bittner+argosy |journal=[[The Author & Journalist]] |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=18β24 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=August 1934 |title=The Author & Journalist's Literary Market Tips Gathered Monthly from Authoritative Sources |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_author-journalist_1934-08_19/page/n15/mode/2up?q=argosy+clayton |journal=[[The Author & Journalist]] |volume=19 |issue=8 |pages=16β20 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=July 1937 |title=Writer's Market |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_writers-digest_1937-07_17/page/56/mode/2up?q=whipple |journal=[[Writer's Digest]] |volume=XVII |issue=8 |pages=56β64 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=January 5, 1942 |title=A Recommissioned Argosy |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_newsweek-us_1942-01-05_19_1/page/50/mode/2up?q=argosy |journal=[[Newsweek]] |volume=XIX |issue=1 |pages=50 |ref=none}} * {{Cite news |last=Anonymous |date=September 28, 1942 |title=Advertising News |url=https://nyti.ms/3YjDKnI |access-date= |ref=none |work=[[The New York Times]]}} * {{cite magazine |last=Anonymous |date=July 1943 |title='You'll Be Sorry!': The 'Take It or Leave It' audience acclaims the sixty-four dollar question |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Tune-In/Tune-In-1943-07.pdf#page=25 |magazine=Tune In |pages=23β25 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=August 23, 1943 |title=All-Fiction Slick |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_newsweek-us_1943-08-23_22_8/page/90/mode/2up?q=argosy |journal=[[Newsweek]] |volume=XXII |issue=8 |pages=91 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=September 1943 |title=Writer's Market |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_writers-digest_1943-09_22/page/6/mode/2up |journal=[[Writer's Digest]] |volume=XXIII |issue=7 |pages=7 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=June 14, 1948 |title=The Golden Fleece |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_newsweek-us_1948-06-14_31_24/page/60/mode/2up?q=argosy |journal=[[Newsweek]] |volume=XXXI |issue=24 |pages=61 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=September 19, 1949 |title=For Men Only |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_newsweek-us_1949-09-19_34_12/page/58/mode/2up?q=argosy |journal=[[Newsweek]] |volume=XXXIV |issue=12 |pages=58 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=May 1953 |title=New York Market Letter |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_writers-digest_1953-05_33/page/50/mode/2up?q=Lewis |journal=[[Writer's Digest]] |volume=33 |issue=6 |pages=42β49 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=May 17, 1954 |title=New Argosy Crew |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_newsweek-us_1954-05-17_43_20/page/62/mode/2up |journal=[[Newsweek]] |volume=XLIII |issue=20 |pages=62 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Anonymous |date=June 1954 |title=NYC Markets Popping Hot and Cold Stop Big News at Both Ends! |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_writers-digest_1954-06_34/page/12/mode/2up?q=argosy+purdy 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|chapter=A History of the Scientific Romance in the Munsey Magazines, 1912β1920 |ref=none |author-link=Sam Moskowitz }} * {{Cite book |last=Moskowitz |first=Sam |url=https://archive.org/details/seekersoftomorro0000mosk |title=Seekers of Tomorrow |publisher=[[Hyperion Press|Hyperion]] |year=1974 |isbn=0-88355-158-6 |location=Westport, Connecticut |ref=none |author-link=Sam Moskowitz |url-access=registration |orig-year=1966}} * {{Cite book |last=Moskowitz |first=Sam |url= |title=Strange Horizons |publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]] |year=1976 |isbn=0-684-14774-2 |location=New York |ref=none |author-link=Sam Moskowitz |url-access= |orig-year=}} * {{Cite book |last=Mott |first=Frank Luther |title=A History of American Magazines: 1850β1865 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |year=1957a |isbn= |location=Cambridge Massachusetts |oclc=867369705 |ref=none |author-link=Frank Luther Mott}} * {{Cite book |last=Mott |first=Frank Luther |title=A History of American Magazines: 1885β1905 |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |year=1957b |isbn= |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |oclc=228067774 |ref=none |author-link=Frank Luther Mott}} * {{Cite journal |last=Munsey |first=Frank A. |date=May 1898 |title=Getting On In Journalism |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_munseys-magazine_1898-05_19_2/page/214/mode/2up |journal=Munsey's Magazine |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=214β224 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Munsey |first=Frank A. |author-link=Frank A. Munsey |date=October 1902 |title=Impressions by the Way |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V937L2OXevEC&q=%22junior%20munsey%22 |journal=[[Munsey's Magazine]] |volume=XXVIII |issue=1 |pages=153β155 |ref=none}} * {{Cite book |last=Munsey |first=Frank A. |url=https://archive.org/details/foundingmunseyp00munsgoog/mode/2up |title=The Story of the Founding and Development of the Munsey Publishing-House |publisher=[[The De Vinne Press]] |year=1907 |isbn= |location=New York |oclc=7003678 |ref=none |author-link=Frank A. Munsey}} * {{Cite book |last=Osborne |first=William Hamilton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzShvtdMfSMC |title=My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings |publisher=[[Doubleday, Page & Company]] |year=1921 |editor-last=Burgess |editor-first=Gelett |location=Garden City, New York |pages=185β188 |language=en |chapter=William Hamilton Osborne |oclc=407763 |ref=none |author-link=William Hamilton Osborne}} * {{Cite book |last=Peterson |first=Theodore |title=Magazines in the Twentieth Century |publisher=[[University of Illinois Press]] |year=1972 |isbn=0-252-72537-9 |edition=2nd |location=Urbana, Illinois |pages= |ref=none |orig-date=1964}} * {{Cite book |last=Raine |first=William MacLeod |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QzShvtdMfSMC |title=My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings |publisher=[[Doubleday, Page & Company]] |year=1921 |editor-last=Burgess |editor-first=Gelett |location=Garden City, New York |pages=200β201 |language=en |chapter=William MacLeod Raine |oclc=407763 |ref=none |author-link=William MacLeod Raine}} * {{cite book |last=Sanders |first=Joe |url= |title=Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] |year=1985 |isbn=0-313-21221-X |editor-last=Tymn |editor-first=Marshall B. |location=Westport, Connecticut |pages=3β6 |chapter=A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine |ref=none |editor2-last=Ashley |editor2-first=Mike |url-access= |name-list-style=amp}} * {{Cite book |last=Server |first=Lee |title=Danger is My Business |publisher=[[Chronicle Books]] |year=1993 |isbn=0-8118-0112-8 |location=San Francisco |ref=none |author-link=Lee Server}} * {{Cite book |last=Server |first=Lee |title=Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers |publisher=Checkmark Books |year=2002 |isbn=0-8160-4578-X |location=New York |ref=none |author-link=Lee Server}} * {{cite book |last=Stone |first=Albert William |title=Pulpwood Days Volume 1: Editors You Want to Know |publisher=Off-Trail Publications |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-9786836-2-7 |editor-last=Locke |editor-first=John |location=Elkhorn, California |pages=15β53 |chapter=Meeting the Editors in Person |ref=none }} * {{Cite journal |last=Terrill |first=Rogers |author-link=Rogers Terrill |date=December 1942 |title=Letter |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_writers-digest_1942-12_22/page/6/mode/2up?q=terrill+argosy+wretched+editing |journal=[[Writer's Digest]] |volume=XXIII |issue=2 |pages=6 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Thomas |first=Ward |date=October 1935 |title=Mice or Men? |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_writers-digest_1935-10_15/page/30/mode/2up |journal=[[Writer's Digest]] |volume=XV |issue=11 |pages=31β35 |ref=none}} * {{Cite book |last=Weinberg |first=Robert |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] |year=1988 |isbn=0-313-24349-2 |location=Westport, Connecticut |ref=none |author-link=Robert Weinberg (author)}} * {{Cite news |last=Whitman |first=Alden |date=April 28, 1970 |title=Gypsy Rose Lee Memorial Service Tomorrow |pages=41 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://nyti.ms/3ufj1q7 |access-date=November 13, 2023 |ref=none}} * {{Cite journal |last=Whipple |first=Chandler |date=July 1939 |title=Letter |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_writers-digest_1939-07_19/page/2/mode/2up?q=whipple |journal=[[Writer's Digest]] |volume=19 |issue=8 |pages=2 |ref=none}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Argosy (magazine)}} * [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009038173 ''The Golden Argosy'' (1882β1888)] at the [[HathiTrust]] * [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006062033 ''The Argosy'' (1888β1920)] at the [[HathiTrust]] * [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101712695 ''Argosy All-Story Weekly'' (1920β1929)] at the [[HathiTrust]] {{Authority control}} {{ref info}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Argosy (magazine)}} [[Category:1882 establishments in New York (state)]] [[Category:1978 disestablishments in New York (state)]] [[Category:Defunct children's magazines published in the United States]] [[Category:Defunct men's magazines published in the United States]] [[Category:Weekly magazines published in the United States]] [[Category:Defunct literary magazines published in the United States]] [[Category:Magazines established in 1882]] [[Category:Magazines disestablished in 1978]] [[Category:Defunct magazines published in New York City]] [[Category:Men's adventure magazines]] [[Category:Pulp magazines]]
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