Many a magazine lives a generation, few live two. Last week, having completed 28 years of usefulness, Popular Magazine appeared for the last time. Street & Smith, largest producers of pulp-paper thrillers, merged (and buried) Popular Magazine with another of their 15 periodicalsComplete Stories. The end of Popular, like the end of Everybody's, rang the knell of another semi-pretentious sheet which could not compete with the innumerable sporadic, cheap magazines which frankly pander yarns about gunmen, speakeasies, dope. Popular-Complete Stories, beginning with the December issue, will be smaller than Popular, will sell for 15¢ instead of 25¢.
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