After eight issues, Mencken and Nathan considered their initial $600 investment to have been sufficiently profitable, and they sold the magazine to its publishers, Eltinge Warner and Eugene Crow, for $12,500.
8号まで刊行後、メンケンとネイサンは500ドルの投資で十分な利益を得たと判断し、同誌を Eltinge Warner と Eugene Crow という出版者に1万2500ドルで売却した。