Swank
There appear to be four distinct series of the magazine. The first was
subtitled "For the Man Who Knows" and looks somewhat like an Esquire
clone. It ran from August 1941 to March 1942, and possibly only lasted
for 7 issues. Later in the mid 1940s it reappeared as an all-reprint digest
subtitled "The Modern Digest for Men", with pieces by known
figures like Ambrose Bierce, Humphrey Bogart, Oscar Levant, Earl
Wilson.
There was then a brief run in the early 1950s as a girly magazine.
Finally, in the mid 1950s, it reappeared as a men's magazine and published
stories by Robert Bloch, Avram Davidson, Barry Malzberg, Norman Spinrad,
Henry Kuttner and a whole bunch of others.
The volume numbering was restarted for each of the series, except that the
final series started at Vol. 3 No. 1.
Issues & Index Sources
Publishers
Aug-1941: Elite Publications, Inc. (Victor Fox)
Sep-1941 – Mar-1942: Swank Magazine, Inc. (Victor Fox)
in 1946: Swank Magazine Pub. Co.
c. 1954: Medallion Publishing Corp (a Martin Goodman company)
in 1961: Royal Publications
in 1974: Magnum Communications
Mar-1993: Broadway Pub. Corp
Feb-1994: Swank Publications Inc.
Editors
in 1946: Arnold Shaw
Feb-1956 – ?: Bruce Jay Friedman
Formats
1941 – ?: large format
Aug-1944? – ?: digest
Feb-1956 – present: standard slick
Prices
1941 – ?: 25c
Aug-1944? – ?: 25c
Frequency
Aug-1944? – ?: quarterly?
Feb-1956 – 1959: roughly quarterly
1960 – 1965: roughly bi-monthly
1966 – 1989: monthly
1990 – present: 13 issues a year
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