ROMANCE specialized in romance and love stories set among exotic and distant lands, in historical settings, and in the face of danger and adventure. This was the second pulp magazine published by Ridgway, a company which had been successful first with EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, a mass-market title printed on quality paper and aimed at both men and women, and secondly with ADVENTURE, a purely pulp magazine aimed primarily at men.
It debuted in November 1919, and at first published mostly fiction in the swashbuckling mold of heroic "romance" as the term was used in the 19th Century. It came out with a dozen monthly issues and stopped; in November 1928 it was revived and ran monthly until the last issue in January of 1930. Throughout its life it emphasized remote and exotic locations and situations, but classic themes of love and romance were always important, and were often stated explicitly on the cover blurbs.
Beginning with the June 1929 issue it absorbed EVERYBODY'S, which by that time had become strictly a pulp magazine with lower-quality stories presented on cheap paper.

-
Romance 1920-08
2829 visits
-
Romance 1919-11
3618 visits
-
Romance 1919-12
3504 visits
-
Romance 1920-01
3064 visits
-
Romance 1920-02
2972 visits
-
Romance 1920-03
2979 visits
-
Romance 1920-04
3050 visits
-
Romance 1920-05
2735 visits
-
Romance 1920-06
2725 visits
-
Romance 1920-07
3103 visits
-
Romance 1920-09
2814 visits
-
Romance 1920-10
2900 visits
-
Romance 1928-11
3865 visits
-
Romance 1928-12
3304 visits
-
Romance 1929-01
3162 visits
-
Romance 1929-02
2909 visits
-
Romance 1929-03
2231 visits
-
Romance 1929-04
2156 visits
-
Romance 1929-05
2297 visits
-
Romance 1929-06
2287 visits
-
Romance 1929-07
2433 visits
-
Romance 1929-08
2594 visits
-
Romance 1929-09
2176 visits
-
Romance 1929-10
2385 visits
-
Romance 1929-11
2942 visits
-
Romance 1929-12
3211 visits