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This a category of magazines which were first established in 1920. Pages in category "Magazines established in 1920" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total.
The contents of the magazine provided a unique look into popular culture, politics, and world events through the Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, World War II, and postwar America. It ceased publication in 1950 and was revived briefly in 1971.
With the widespread economic hardships brought on by the Great Depression of 1929, many Americans were more receptive to socialist and leftist ideas. As a result, New Masses grew in circulation and became highly influential in literary, artistic, and intellectual circles.
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At their peak of popularity in the 1920s–1940s, [10] the most successful pulps sold up to one million copies per issue. In 1934, Frank Gruber said there were some 150 pulp titles. The most successful pulp magazines were Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book and Short Stories, collectively described by some pulp historians as "The Big Four". [11]
When someone mentions the 1920s, you might picture one of two extremes. One is the classic "Roaring 20s" image, with flappers in bucket hats and the decadence of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great...
Fiction House was an American publisher of pulp magazines and comic books that existed from the 1920s to the 1950s. It was founded by John B. "Jack" Kelly and John W. Glenister. [ 2 ] By the late 1930s, the publisher was Thurman T. Scott.
The magazine was printed on pulp paper. The magazine can be considered a forerunner of the pulp fiction magazines that were prominent from the 1920s to 1950s, as it avoided more highbrow fare in favor of fiction "for the common man." Several issues of The Popular Magazine featured illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. [4]