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= The All-Story Magazine =
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Introduction
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'The All-Story Magazine' was a pulp magazine founded in 1905 and
published by Frank Munsey. The editor was Robert H. Davis; Thomas
Newell Metcalf also worked as a managing editor for the magazine. It
was published monthly until March 1914, and then switched to a weekly
schedule. Munsey merged it with 'The' 'Cavalier', another of his pulp
magazines, in May 1914, and the title changed to 'All-Story Cavalier
Weekly' for a year. In 1920, it was merged with Munsey's 'Argosy'; the
combined magazine was retitled 'Argosy All-Story Weekly'.
Many well-known writers appeared in 'All-Story', including the mystery
writer Mary Roberts Rinehart and the Western writer Max Brand. The
magazine's most famous contributor was Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose
first sale, 'Under the Moons of Mars', appeared in 'All-Story' in
1912. This was the start of his Barsoom science fiction series set on
Mars; the next three novels in the series also appeared in
'All-Story'. In 1912, 'All-Story' printed Burroughs's 'Tarzan of the
Apes', and more stories of Tarzan followed, along with two
installments of another of Burroughs's series, about Pellucidar, a
land inside the Earth. The first appearance of Zorro, the vigilante,
was in 'All-Story' in 1919, in Johnston McCulley's novel 'The Curse of
Capistrano'. Many other science fiction and fantasy stories appeared
over the life of the magazine. Starting in 1939, some of the stories
from 'All-Story' were included in 'Famous Fantastic Mysteries' and
'Fantastic Novels', both of which were created as vehicles for
reprints from the Munsey magazines.
Publication history
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In 1882, Frank Munsey launched 'The Golden Argosy', a children's
weekly magazine. The title changed to just 'The Argosy' in 1888, and
in 1896, Munsey switched to using coarse pulp paper, and printing
only fiction, thus launching the first pulp magazine. It was
immediately successful. Other publishers brought out competing
magazines, such as Street & Smith's 'The Popular Magazine' in
1903, and Story-Press's 'The Monthly Story Magazine' in 1905. As the
competition grew, Munsey decided to add another pulp title.
Munsey launched 'The All-Story Magazine' in January 1905 on a monthly
schedule with Robert H. Davis as the editor, and Davis hired Thomas
Newell Metcalf to work for him as managing editor. Munsey had hired
Davis early in 1904 to work on the 'New York Sunday News', but sold it
in April of that year, and Davis had been fiction editor of 'Munsey's
Magazine' since then.
In March 1914 'All-Story' schedule switched to weekly, and in May of
that year it was combined with another Munsey pulp, 'The Cavalier',
under the title 'All-Story Cavalier Weekly'. Davis and Metcalf had
each dealt with some 'All-Story' contributors up to that point, but
thereafter Davis took over working with the writers who had been
Metcalf's responsibility. The following year the "'Cavalier'" was
dropped, and it continued as 'All-Story Weekly' again until 1920, when
it was merged into 'The Argosy.' The combined magazine was retitled
'Argosy All-Story Weekly', and retained that name until 1929.
Contents and reception
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The first issue included the first instalments of five novels, one of
which was W. Bert Foster's 'When Time Slipped a Cog', about a man who
discovers a year of his life has passed that he cannot remember. Two
of the short stories were science fiction as well: Howard R. Garis's
"The Ghost at Box 13", and Margaret Prescott Montague's "The Great
Sleep Tanks". The May issue reprinted Garrett P. Serviss's short
novel 'The Moon Metal' (originally published in book form in 1900),
about a new fiscal standard that replaced gold with a metal from the
moon. Serviss also appeared in 1909 with 'A Columbus of Space',
serialized in the January to June issues, which science fiction
historian Sam Moskowitz commented "caused some to class Serviss as the
equal of Jules Verne".
Mary Roberts Rinehart's first story, "A Gasoline Road Agent", appeared
in the April 1905 issue. Davis encouraged her efforts, and her first
novel, 'The Circular Staircase', was serialized in 'All-Story' from
November 1906 to March 1907. In book form the novel later became the
first major success of her career. Max Brand, one of the most
prolific of all pulp writers, sold his first Western novel, 'The
Untamed', to 'All-Story'; it was serialized starting in the December
1918 issue. Ray Cummings, another prolific pulp author, began his
career with "The Girl in the Golden Atom" in the March 15, 1919, issue
of 'All-Story'; it was one of the most popular stories he ever wrote.
Other 'All-Story' writers included Rex Stout, later a well-known
mystery writer; Western writer Raymond S. Spears; science fiction
writer Murray Leinster; horror and fantasy writers Tod Robbins and
Perley Poore Sheehan, and W. Adolphe Roberts, a Jamaican writer who
later became a leader of Jamaica's independence movement. 'All-Story'
also published poetry, including work by Djuna Barnes, later known as
an important figure in modernist and lesbian literature. Eldred Kurtz
Means's "Tickfall" stories, about black Americans in Louisiana, began
in 'Cavalier' and moved to 'All-Story' when the two magazines merged.
Johnston McCulley's Zorro series began with the serialization of 'The
Curse of Capistrano' in August and September 1919, and continued in
'Argosy' after the magazines merged in 1920. Edwin Baird, later the
founding editor of 'Weird Tales', made his first sale to 'All-Story'
in 1906, and contributed several more over the life of the magazine.
The first issue's cover printed the words "Something New" in a script
font on a red background. A picture of two cowboys appeared on the
next issue. The third issue took over the cover for a declaration
that the magazine had reached a circulation of 200,000, but thereafter
artwork was used on every cover. Artists included Valentine Sandberg
and F. X. Chamberlain. The cover illustrations did not at first have
any relationship to the stories in the magazine.
John Clute, discussing the American pulp magazines in the first two
decades of the twentieth century, has described 'All-Story' and its
companion, 'Argosy', as "the most important pulps of their era."
Burroughs
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The most important author discovered by 'All-Story' was Edgar Rice
Burroughs. Burroughs was thirty-five years old in the summer of 1911,
and unsuccessful in business. He began writing a novel in July of
that year, "very surreptitiously" as he later recalled: "I was very
much ashamed of my new vocation ... It seemed a foolish thing for a
full grown man to be doing". By August he had completed enough of the
story to send it to 'All-Story' under the title "Dejah Thoris, Martian
Princess", adding in his covering letter that the completed story
would be three times the length of the 43,000 words he was submitting.
Metcalf replied with guarded enthusiasm, asking for some cuts, and a
total length of no more than 70,000 words. Metcalf bought the
rewritten story in November for $400 (equivalent to $ in ); given that
the manuscript had taken four months of work, Burroughs was
unimpressed at the pay rate. The story was serialized in 'All-Story'
from February to July 1912, titled 'Under the Moons of Mars'. This
was the first of Burroughs's Barsoom stories ("Barsoom" being the name
of the planet Mars in the series), an early and influential planetary
romance. 'Darkness and Dawn', by George Allan England, had been
serialized in another Munsey magazine, 'The Cavalier', starting in
January that year, and science fiction historian Sam Moskowitz regards
the appearance of these two stories as signalling the start of an era
of popular science fiction love stories. Burroughs had intended the
story to be printed under the pseudonym "Normal Bean", to indicate he
was an ordinary person despite the fantastic nature of the story. The
typesetter assumed it was an error and the story appeared as by
"Norman Bean", leading Burroughs to give up the pseudonym and publish
his subsequent work under his real name.
Burroughs's next submission to Metcalf was rejected, but in March 1912
Burroughs sent Metcalf a description of the novel he was working on,
titled 'Tarzan of the Apes'; Metcalf was enthusiastic about the idea
and promptly bought the manuscript when Burroughs submitted it in
June. It appeared in the October 1912 issue of 'All-Story.' The next
three Barsoom novels appeared in 'All-Story' over the next four years:
'The Gods of Mars' was serialized from January to May 1913; 'The
Warlord of Mars' ran from December 1913 to March 1914, and 'Thuvia,
Maid of Mars' appeared in 1916. The second Tarzan book, 'The Return
of Tarzan', appeared in 'New Story Magazine', but the series returned
to 'All-Story' for three of the later novels: 'The Beasts of Tarzan',
'The Son of Tarzan', and 'Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar', and for some
of the subsequent short stories in the series. Burroughs's Pellucidar
series, about adventures inside a hollow Earth, also began in
'All-Story', with 'At the Earth's Core' and 'Pellucidar'. The initial
rate of less than a cent per word that Burroughs received for his
first sale began to increase: Metcalf agreed to a rate of two and a
half cents per word (equivalent to $ in ), for everything he bought
from Burroughs in 1914.
By the time 'All-Story' merged with 'Argosy' in the summer of 1920,
almost two dozen stories and serialized novels by Burroughs had
appeared in the magazine. Burroughs's popularity led to a demand for
similar stories, and to imitations. Science fiction historian Mike
Ashley suggests that this was the reason for the increasing number of
science fiction stories that began to appear, from writers such as
Austin Hall, Homer Eon Flint, and Junius B. Smith. Hall's "Almost
Immortal" appeared in 1916, along with short science fiction tales by
John U. Giesy, J. B. Smith, Charles B. Stilson, and Victor Rousseau.
The following year 'All-Story' published Abraham Merritt's first
story, "Through the Dragon Glass". Merritt was one of the most
popular pulp writers, and in 1918 two more of his stories appeared:
'The People of the Pit', and "The Moon Pool". "The Conquest of the
Moon Pool", a sequel to the latter story, followed in 1919, and both
were well received. When Hugo Gernsback launched 'Amazing Stories',
the first science fiction magazine, in 1926, he soon discovered that
the technically oriented science fiction he preferred did not sell as
well as more fantastic stories, and he responded by reprinting "The
Moon Pool" in the May 1927 issue.
In 2006, a copy of the October 1912 issue of 'All-Story', featuring
the first appearance of the character Tarzan in any medium, sold for
$59,750 (equivalent to $ in ) in an auction held by Heritage Auctions
of Dallas.
Bibliographic details
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The magazine's title was originally 'The All-Story Magazine'. This
was shortened to 'The All-Story' in June 1911, and then changed to
'All-Story Weekly' when it switched from monthly to weekly publication
with the March 7, 1914, issue. From May 16, 1914, to May 8, 1915, it
was titled 'All-Story Cavalier Weekly' as a result of the merger with
'The' 'Cavalier', and for the rest of its run, until the July 17,
1920, issue, it was 'All-Story Weekly' again.
In 1929 Munsey's reorganized two of their magazines: 'Munsey's
Magazine' became part of a new love story magazine titled 'All-Story',
and 'Argosy All-Story Weekly' became simply 'Argosy'. The new
'All-Story' was soon retitled 'All-Story Love Stories' and continued
publication until 1955.
Reprint magazines and anthologies
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The long history of the Munsey magazines meant that by the 1930s there
were many stories readers had heard of but could no longer obtain. In
response to reader requests, Munsey's launched 'Famous Fantastic
Mysteries' in 1939 to reprint old stories from both 'Argosy' and
'All-Story Weekly'. The following year Munsey's launched 'Fantastic
Novels', another reprint magazine, to make longer stories available
without needing to serialize them in 'Famous Fantastic Mysteries'.
'Fantastic Novels' only lasted five issues before being discontinued
in 1941, but 'Famous Fantastic Mysteries' lasted for 81 issues,
ceasing publication with the June 1953 issue. Popular Publications,
which had acquired 'Famous Fantastic Mysteries' from Munsey's in 1942,
brought back 'Fantastic Novels' for another 20 issues between 1948 and
1951.
In 1970 Sam Moskowitz edited a collection of stories from the Munsey
magazines titled 'Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of
"The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920'. Seven
of the nine stories included had originally appeared in 'All-Story'.
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