''Love Story Magazine'' was an American romantic fiction pulp magazine, published from 1921 to 1947.Doug Ellis, John Locke, and John Gunnison, ''The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps''.Silver Spring, MD : Adventure House, 2000. (pp. 153-4) It was one of the best selling magazines of

Street & Smith Street & Smith or Street & Smith Publications, Inc. was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as dime novels and pulp fiction. They also published comic books and sporting yearbooks. Among t ...

. The magazine's circulation was 100,000 in 1922, and 600,000 by 1932.Love Story Magazine
Newsstand: 1925, Retrieved 3 June 2015 The magazine's first issue was released in May 1921 as a quarterly. It became a semi-monthly by August, and a weekly in 1922. When '' Smith's Magazine'' folded in early 1922, its female audience was merged into the new publication.

Daisy Bacon Daisy Bacon (May 23, 1898 – March 1, 1986) was an American Pulp magazine, pulp fiction magazine editor and writer, best known as the editor of ''Love Story Magazine'' from 1928 to 1947. Early life Daisy Bacon was born in Union City, Pennsylvania ...

served as longtime editor of the magazine, from about 1928 through its end.Nolan, Michelle
Love Story Magazine
The Pulp Magazines Project, Retrieved 3 June 2015 Writers who contributed to the magazine included Peggy Dern (writing as Peggy Gaddis) and Maysie Greig. Science fiction writer

Murray Leinster Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie ...

also wrote for ''Love Story'' under the name Louisa Carter Lee. Stallings, Billee J., and Evans, Jo-an J., ''Murray Leinster: The Life and Works''. Jefferson, NC. McFarland, 2011. (pp. 46-7). Another publication called ''Love Story Magazine'' was published by

Popular Publications Popular Publications was one of the largest publishers of pulp magazines during its existence, at one point publishing 42 different titles per month. Company titles included detective fiction, detective, adventure novel, adventure, Romance nove ...

from 1952 to 1954.

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1935 issue at archive.org
additional issues may also be available.
love English poem "Love is still in the air"
, additional issues may also be available. Defunct literary magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1921 Magazines disestablished in 1947 Pulp magazines Street & Smith Weekly magazines published in the United States