Blue Book was a popular 20th-century American magazine which had a lengthy 70-year run under various titles from 1905 to 1975. Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Launched as The Monthly Story Magazine, it was published under that title from May 1905 to August 1906, with a change to The Monthly Story Blue Book Magazine for issues from September 1906 to April 1907. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year For the next 45 years (May 1907 to January 1952) it was known as The Blue Book Magazine, and that was shortened February 1952 to simply Bluebook, continuing until May 1956. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. With a more exploitative angle, the magazine was revived October 1960 as Bluebook for Men, and the title again became Bluebook for the final run from 1967 to 1975. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.
The early publishers were Story-Press Corporation and Consolidated Magazines, followed in 1929 by McCall. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. McCall Corporation was an American publishing company that produced some popular magazines After H. S. Publications took over the reins in October 1960, Hanro (Sterling) was the publisher from August 1964 until March 1966 and then the QMG Magazine Corporation, beginning April 1967. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.
The succession of editors included Karl Edward Harriman, Donald Kennicott (1929 to January 1952), Maxwell Hamilton (February 1952 through the mid-1950s) and Andre Fontaine in the mid-1950s, followed by Frederick A. Birmingham. Maxwell Hamilton returned for the 1960 revival, followed by B. R. Ampolsk in 1967.
Cover artists during the 1930s included Dean Cornwell, Joseph C. Chenoweth, Henry J. Soulen and Herbert Morton Stoops, who continued as the cover artist during the 1940s.
Writers during the 1940s included Nelson S. Bond, Max Brand, Gelett Burgess, Agatha Christie, Irvin S. Cobb, William Lindsay Gresham, Robert A. Heinlein, MacKinlay Kantor, Willy Ley, Theodore Pratt. Nelson Slade Bond ( November 23 1908, Scranton Pennsylvania - November 4 2006, Roanoke Virginia) was an American author Frederick Schiller Faust ( May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American Fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful Frank Gelett Burgess ( January 30, 1866 &ndash September 18, 1951) was an Artist, Art critic, Poet, Author Agatha Mary Clarissa Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 &ndash 12 January 1976 commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb ( June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author humorist and columnist who lived in New York and authored William Lindsay Gresham ( August 20, 1909 &ndash September 14, 1962) was an American Novelist and Non-fiction Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7 1907 – May 8 1988 was an American Novelist and Science fiction Writer. MacKinlay Kantor ( February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter who won the Pulitzer Prize for Willy Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in Germany and the United States. Theodore Pratt (1901 - 1969 was an American writer who is best known for his novels set in Florida. Ivan Sanderson, Luke Short (pseudonym of Frederick D. Ivan Terence Sanderson ( January 30, 1911 – February 19, 1973) was a naturalist and writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland Glidden,1908-1975), Booth Tarkington. Newton Booth Tarkington ( July 29, 1869, Indianapolis – May 19, 1946) was an American Novelist and Dramatist Albert Payson Terhune, and Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and Philip Wylie. Albert Payson Terhune ( December 21 1872 – February 18 1942) was an American Author, Dog breeder, and Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson (1890-1968 was an American Pulp magazine Writer and Entrepreneur who pioneered the American comic
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An Index to Blue Book Magazine, compiled by Mike Ashley, Victor A. Michael or Mike Ashley may refer to Mike Ashley (radio presenter, British radio presenter on Heart Berch and Peter Ruber, was completed in 2004 but has yet to be published.
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