Founder · publisher
J. C. Henneberger
Jacob Clark Henneberger. He founded Weird Tales with J. M. Lansinger so there would be a market for stories no other magazine would print.
In 1922 Henneberger, publisher of College Humor and The Magazine of Fun, formed Rural Publishing Corporation of Chicago with his former fraternity brother J. M. Lansinger. Their first title was Detective Tales (October 1, 1922). To split costs he launched a second magazine devoted to horror and the unusual, and titled it Weird Tales.
The first issue is dated March 1923 and reached newsstands on 18 February 1923. He gave it the subtitle “The Unique Magazine.” Edwin Baird, already editing Detective Tales, was the first editor.
After the magazine’s first year ran at a loss, Henneberger sold his interest in Rural to Lansinger and refinanced Weird Tales through Popular Fiction Publishing. Farnsworth Wright was listed as editor beginning with the November 1924 issue. Henneberger gave Wright control of story selection.
Birth and death dates were not on the sources opened for this draft. They are omitted rather than guessed.