Liberty_(1924-1950)

For other magazines named Liberty, see Liberty (magazine).

Interior spread of Liberty (December 7, 1946) shows the continuing comic strip The Thropp Family by Lawrence Lariar, Don Komisarow and Lou Fine.

Liberty was a general-interest weekly magazine, originally priced at five cents and subtitled, "A Weekly for Everybody." It was launched in 1924 by McCormick-Patterson, the publisher until 1931, when it was taken over by Bernarr Macfadden until 1942. At one time it was said to be "the second greatest magazine in America," ranking behind The Saturday Evening Post in circulation. It folded in 1950. The editors included Fulton Oursler and Darrell Huff.

Writers

Liberty carried work by many of the most important and influential writers of the period. Unusually for a magazine of the era, they bought the rights to many of the printed works outright, and these remain in the hands of the Liberty Library Corporation.

The magazine serialized many early novels by P. G. Wodehouse, and other contributors included Achmed Abdullah, H. Bedford-Jones, Robert Benchley, Walter R. Brooks, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert W. Chambers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert W. Chambers, James F. Dwyer, Paul Ernst, Floyd Gibbons, Murray Leinster and Sax Rohmer.

Reading time

A memorable feature was the "reading time," provided on the first page of each article so readers could know how long it should take to read an article.

External links

• Retro Galaxy

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