The Maul

The Maul tried going exclusively online in 1996. When it became clear that their main readership, bohemians living in Greenwich Village, weren't interested in buying Gateways en masse, the magazine played off the conversion as a publicity stunt for Brentano's.

In 1946, The Maul joined efforts to help horror magazines become more prominent overseas. Slight embarrassment and some lost per diems were the main casualties of the editors discovering that they were already extremely popular.

In 1979, The Maul was in hot water when it published a vignette criticizing the ERA. It was later revealed the slight was actually aimed at the Oakland A's, but readership never truly recovered to its Golden Age numbers.

Mid 19th-century, and the meds section of The Maul is all but obsolete. The copyrighted logo and writing team are bought by the Paltrow Family, in the hopes that someone will eventually run a hygiene wing. The trademark phrase "These meds don't work!" Is also purchased.

In 1862, President Lincoln condoned The Maul as "less pleasant than the cheapest tripe." The Maul ran the tagine "As Seen in the Oval Office!" for the next decade.

The Maul ran short fiction for the first time in 1922. James Joyce wrote a delightful romp that turned violent when some teenage girls tried to voice opinions about the Monarchy during their oratory, only to find out the nun running the class was the ghost of Sherwood Anderson.

In 1867, The Maul began running non-medical adverts. The first was for a barn-raising competition in Akron, which most will know as the infamous Splinter Fest (casualty count unknown).

The Maul was originally printed in limited numbers in Cincinnati, where the Canon Ball Kid was raised. Mauling initially handed out the issues for free, which local businesses loved, as toilet paper was prohibitively expensive back then.