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Snappy Stories ran for a total of 321 issues, each featuring roughly 128 pages of mildly provocative stories, serialized novels, bawdy jokes, racy pen and ink drawings, and letters from readers. Edited by Virginia O’Day, and later Alexander Samalman, it was marketed as ‘A Magazine of Entertaining Fiction.’ As one of the first ‘girlie pulps,’ Snappy Stories attracted attention on the newsstands with its raucously flirtatious covers.

Published for most of its lifespan by New Fiction Publishing, reaching a circulation of around 400,000 by 1924. A few years later, however, it fell into irregular publication and was re-titled Snappy Stories and Pictures. AFter being sold to Lowell Publications in 1930 it was onsold it to BT Publishing in 1933. The magazine folded shorlty afterwards.

[Source: The Pulp Magazine Project]