Munsey's Magazine, March 1911

Munsey's Magazine presents "The New Supreme Court," an article by Isaac F. Marcosson on President Taft's judicial appointments. The cover features a formal portrait photograph of Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter, recently promoted from circuit court to the Supreme Bench. This general-interest pulp magazine, which dominated American newsstands in the early twentieth century, mixed current events, fiction, and political commentary. Munsey's pioneered the affordable mass-market magazine format, selling adventure and information to millions at ten cents per issue—a model that would influence pulp magazines and eventually comic books.