THE POPULAR MAGAZINE, April 20, 1916

Throughout the 20th century’s early years (the Aughts and the Teens), Street & Smith’s The Popular was not only the principal competitor to Munsey’s The Argosy and The All-Story but also the company’s flagship pulp magazine. Popular attracted many of the day’s top fictioneers, including many big names that later achieved success in the slicks and/or hardcover books: Jack London, Damon Runyon, Zane Grey, Peter B. Kyne, E. Phillips Oppenheimer, etc. Each issue during this period carried 224 pages of family-oriented fiction. It’s a consistently underrated pulp magazine that was one of the era’s top sellers, boasting a readership of more than one million Americans. This is a fine representative issue with yarns by many of editor Charles Agnew MacLean’s favorite contributors. Condition: Good Plus to Very Good. Fundamentally sound, with complete covers and spine, but a plethora of creases and edgewear to covers. Text block is lightly yellowed but supple; no chipping, tearing, or flaking to pages.

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