The BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE

The BLUE BOOK MAGAZINE
   US PULP MAGAZINE published by the Story-Press Corporation; ed Donald Kennicott, Maxwell Hamilton and others. It first appeared May 1905 as The Monthly Story Magazine, became The Monthly Story Blue Book Magazine Sep 1906, The Blue Book Magazine May 1907, and Bluebook Feb 1952. Later issues had no sf content.This general-fiction pulp, a major competitor of the Frank A. MUNSEY group, had a long history of publishing sf and fantasy, with works by George Allan ENGLAND, William Hope HODGSON and others appearing in its opening years. Its heyday came in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when it published serializations of many novels by Edgar Rice BURROUGHS as well as others by Edwin BALMER and Philip WYLIE, James Francis DWYER and Edgar JEPSON, with additional short stories from Ray CUMMINGS. Later Nelson BOND came into prominence with his Squaredeal Sam (1943-51) and Pat Pending (1942-8) series.
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