It was first published on December 6, 1877; within a year, circulation topped 6,000 copies per day.

By the end of 1981, circulation topped 1 million.

That same year, circulation topped 2.7 million.

By 1910 The Post's circulation topped a million.

At its peak in the 1960s, the daily paid circulation topped 34,000.

In 1989, circulation topped 172,000 and ad pages peaked at 1,840.

Its daily circulation topped a million by the end of Otis's first decade.

In fact, by late July 1970 our circulation topped five thousand, a stunning turnaround.

In its heyday, the circulation topped 120,000, but by the time of its closure it had dwindled once more to just 33,000.

It is estimated that the monthly circulation of Weird Tales never topped 50,000 copies per issue.