Circulating Physical Culture
by Catherine Keyser
Circulating Physical Culture by Catherine KeyserThe events of recent months have reminded us that the topics of health and wellness can tap into media consumers’ deeply held fears and mobilize their wildest political imaginations. Through social media...
A National Phenomenon: The Superhero Comic Revolution
by Julian Chambliss
A National Phenomenon: The Superhero Comic Revolution by Julian Chambliss“Superman may have arrived from a distant planet, but his real origins lay in Cleveland, Ohio.”[1]As this quote from Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture...
The Pulps at War: Militarized Masculinity in Men’s Adventure Magazines
by Gregory A. Daddis
The Pulps at War: Militarized Masculinity in Men's Adventure Magazines by Gregory A. Daddis During the Cold War, men’s adventure magazines could be found in magazine racks across the country and in the post exchanges on military bases around the globe....
Visualizing Comic Book Circulation Narratives
by Joshua Plencner
Visualizing Comic Book Circulation Narrativesby Joshua PlencnerHistories of the American comic book industry often carefully reconstruct insider interviews, mythologized anecdotes, and speculative fanlore to triangulate their claims about circulation...
Photoplay‘s Fan Nation
by Katherine Fusco
Photoplay’s Fan NationKatherine FuscoAre we all teen girls? Much foundational work on film fandom and the fan magazine in particular has focused on a young, female audience. And for good reason: in work on film audiences such as Shelley Stamp’s Movie...
What is a mass-circulation magazine?
by Faye Hammill
What is a mass-circulation magazine? by Faye Hammill What is a mass-circulation magazine? Some twentieth-century American titles reached peak circulations of seven, eight or nine million. This meant, as the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) data...
The New Yorker by the Numbers
By Daniel Worden
The New Yorker by the Numbersby Daniel WordenIn its first issue, published with a cover date of February 21, 1925, The New Yorker declares itself to be a serious magazine, with a distinctive humorous tone and a commitment to facts:The New Yorker starts...
Comparing Major Women’s Magazine Circulation Across the 20th Century
by Ed Timke and Wenyue (Lucy) Gu
Comparing Major Women’s Magazine Circulation Across the 20th CenturyBy Ed Timke and Wenyue (Lucy) GuFrom magazines’ earliest years, women have been a central target and subject of advertising and editorial content. As Kathleen L. Endres and Therese L....
“Life’s Circulation: Circumventing the ABC with ‘Pass-Along’ Stats”
by Erika Doss
“Life’s Circulation: Circumventing the ABC with ‘Pass-Along’ Stats”by Erika DossLaunched on November 23, 1936 and published as a weekly until December 29, 1972, Life was perhaps the most popular magazine of the mid-twentieth century, especially among...
The Smart Set of Data
by Craig J. Saper
The Smart Set of Databy Craig J. Saper Founded in 1900 by William d’Alton Mann, The Smart Set became important when H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan edited the magazine (1914 -1923) adding a new subtitle, A Magazine of Cleverness. They soon...