Magazine Data File

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Magazine Issues

Action for Men

Total Issues: 128?

Issues & Index Sources

1957? – Feb-1978?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

1957? – Jun-1959: Hillman Periodicals Inc.
1959 – 1977: Vista Publications, Inc.

Sources

It's a Man's World



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Action Illustrated

Total Issues: 4?

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1962 – Apr-1963

Publishers: Major Magazine Publishing

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Action Life

Total Issues: 6?

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1963 – Nov-1964:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Atlas Magazines Inc.
Sources: It's a Man's World



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Action Monthly

Issues & Index Sources: 1952 – 1953?:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: #1, #4, #9, any after #14)

Publishers:   Transport Publishing Company, Sydney, New South Wales
Prices:   8d
Pagecounts:   34pp

Action Novels

Total Issues: 25

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1928 – Dec-1932/Jan-1933:	Fictionmags Website	(Missing: Oct-1929)
	Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Oct-1929)

Fall 1937 – Spring 1939:	Fictionmags Website
	Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

Fiction House, NY

Editors

Malcolm Reiss

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

20c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

bi-monthly (1928-1933); quarterly (1937-1939)

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Action-Packed Western

Total Issues: 11?+22=33?

Began in 1937 (or earlier) then suspended and relaunched in 1954

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1937 – Dec-1939:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: any before Oct-1937; Jan-1938; Mar-1938; Dec-1938; Sep-1939; any after Dec-1939)

Jul-1954 – May-1958:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers

Columbia Publications, N.Y. (Double Action)

Editors

1954 – 1958: Robert A.W. Lowndes

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

Jun-1938 – Dec-1939: irregular
Jul-1954 – May-1958: bi-monthly

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Action Sports Fiction

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Sports Fiction Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Fiction Enterprises, Sydney
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   72pp

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Action Stories

Total Issues: 224

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1921 – Summer 1950:	Fictionmags Website
	Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

Fiction House, NY

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

  Sep-1921 – Dec-1932: monthly
  Nov-1933 – Mar-1934: irregular
  Jun-1934 – Jun-1936: bi-monthly
  Aug-1936 – Jan-1937: monthly
  Feb-1937 – Apr-1943: bi-monthly
  Summer 1943 – Fall 1950: quarterly

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western




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Action Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 58

British reprint edition of Action Stories.

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1923 – Jan-1928:	Fictionmags Website	(Missing: all issues)
	Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: all issues)

1949 – ?:	Fictionmags Website	(Missing: all except #5, 1950)
	Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: all except #5, 1950)

Publishers

Apr-1923 – Jan-1928: Hutchinson & Co., 34 Paternoster Row, London EC4
1949 – ?: Pemberton's (of Manchester) Ltd.

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

  Apr-1923 – Dec-1923: 9d
  Jan-1924 – Nov-1924: 7d
  Dec-1924 – Feb-1925: 9d

Pagecounts

120pp

Sources

The Age of the Storytellers


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Action Western Stories

see under New All-Action Stories

Active Life

Aimed at over-50s. General interest articles and features with occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1990 – present

Publishers:   Aspen Specialist Media, London
Editors:   Helene Hodge
Frequency:   bimonthly

Actual Crime Stories

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers: Super Publications

Actual Detective Cases

True crime. Merged with Official Detective on 1943.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s

Sources: Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

Actual Detective Stories of Women in Crime

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1937 – ?

Publishers: Detective Stories Publishing Co., 731 Plymouth Ct., Chicago, IL
Frequency: monthly

Acumen

Total Issues: 68 (as at Sep-2010)

A literary journal that places an emphasis on poetry.

Issues & Index Sources: 1985 – present

Publishers:   Brixham, Devon
Website:   www.acumen-poetry.co.uk
Editors:   Patricia Oxley (in 1998 - 2004)
Frequency:   thrice yearly

Adam

Total Issues: 8+471?=479?

Men's magazine which ran three or four stories per issue. Ran Harlan Ellison's "Dogfight on 101" and "Portrait of an Artist as a Zilch Writer" (both 1969).