Cover of the November 1914 edition, in which George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion began its seralization. |
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| First issue | 1899 |
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| Final issue | 1929 |
| Country | United States |
Everybody's Magazine was an American magazine from 1899 to 1929.
The magazine was founded by Philadelphia merchant John Wanamaker in 1899, though he had little role in its actual operations.[1]
Initially, the magazine published a combination of non-fiction articles and new fiction stories. By 1926, the magazine had become a pulp fiction magazine and in 1929 it merged with Romance magazine.
In 1903, it had a circulation of 150,000, and Wanamaker sold the magazine for $75,000 to a group headed by Erman Jesse Ridgeway. A series of muckraking articles called "Frenzied Finance" in 1904 boosted circulation to well over 500,000, and it stayed above the half million mark for many years. During America's involvement in World War I, circulation declined below 300,000. By the late 1920s, it had declined to about 50,000.[1]
Beginning in 1915, the magazine began referring to itself simply as Everybody's.