Blue Book was a popular 20th-century American magazine with a lengthy 70-year run under various titles from 1905 to 1975. It was a sibling magazine to The Red Book Magazine and The Green Book Magazine.
Covers of Blue Book magazine in the 1920s
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. In its early days, Blue Book also carried a supplement on theatre actors called “Stageland”. The magazine was aimed at both male and female readers.
In its 1920s heyday, Blue Book was regarded as one of the “Big Four” pulp magazines (the best-selling, highest-paying and most critically acclaimed pulps), along with Adventure, Argosy and Short Stories. The magazine was nicknamed “King of the Pulps” in the 1930s. Pulp historian Ed Hulse has stated that between the 1910s and the 1950s Blue Book “achieved and sustained a level of excellence reached by few other magazines”.
Here below is a set of vintage photos that shows covers of Blue Book magazine in the 1920s.
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