The All-Story Magazine

The All-Story (June 1912), containing part five of six of Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Under the Moons of Mars"

The All-Story Magazine was a Munsey pulp. Debuting in January 1905 (the word "Magazine" was dropped from the title in 1908), this pulp was published monthly until March 1914. Effective March 7, 1914, it changed to a weekly schedule and the title All-Story Weekly. In May 1914, All-Story Weekly was merged with another story pulp, The Cavalier, and used the title All-Story Cavalier Weekly for one year. Editors of All-Story included Newell Metcalf and Robert H. Davis.

The All-Story is the magazine that first published Edgar Rice Burroughs, beginning with "Under the Moons of Mars", a serialized novel eventually published in book form as A Princess of Mars, and later The Gods of Mars. Other All-Story writers included Rex Stout, later a famed mystery writer, and mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart, Western writers Max Brand and Raymond S. Spears, and horror and fantasy writers Tod Robbins, Abraham Merritt, Perley Poore Sheehan and Charles B. Stilson.[1] All-Story also published poetry. One notable writer who published poems in the All-Story was Djuna Barnes.[2]

The now largely forgotten Eldred Kurtz Means (March 11, 1878 - February 19, 1957) was a constant and prolific contributor to pulp magazines such as All-Story Weekly, Argosy and its predecessors, often featuring blackface minstrel show dialogue.[3]

In 2006, a copy of the October 1912 issue of The All-Story, featuring the first appearance of the character Tarzan in any medium, sold for $59,750 in an auction held by Heritage Auctions of Dallas.[4]

  1. ^ Hulse (2013), pp. 19-29.
  2. ^ "Djuna Barnes published poetry in All-Story, The Cavalier, and Pearson's next to pulp authors like Max Brand and Edgar Rice Burroughs...". David M. Earle, Re-Covering Modernism : Pulps, Paperbacks, and the Prejudice of Form. London; New York : Routledge, 2016. ISBN 9781315604077 (p.65)
  3. ^ Drew, Bernard A. (April 14, 2015). Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955: Jim Crow Era Authors and Their Characters. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. pp. 88–96. ISBN 978-0-7864-7410-3 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Rare Pulp Brings Record Price at Heritage! Price of $59,750 Triples Previous Auction Record for any Pulp Magazine". Heritage Auctions. September 2006. Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved September 20, 2006. The old record was set at Sotheby's in 1998," said Ed Jaster, Vice-President for Heritage, "when a different copy of this same pulp sold for the then-impressive price of $17,000. The $59,750 that this beautiful copy achieved sets a new high watermark for the world of pulp collectors.