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Ainslee's Smart Love Stories

Total Issues: 30+15=45

Arguably a revival of Ainslee's Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1934 – Mar-1935, as Ainslee's
  Apr-1935 – Sep-1936, as Ainslee's Smart Love Stories: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Oct-1936 – Aug-1938, as Smart Love Stories: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Street & Smith, N.Y.

Formats

  flat (bedsheet) format

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP
 

Ainsworth's Magazine

Total Issues: 155

Designed as a "family" magazine of "entertainment." Originally heavily illustrated by George Cruikshank, later by Phiz (though all artwork dropped by 1850). Mainly a vehicle for Ainsworth's own fiction (ran "Windsor Castle" 1842-3), but little other fiction of note. Circulation peaked at 7,000 in first year.

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1842 – Dec-1854: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 3

Publishers

  Feb-1842 – Jun-1842: Hugh Cunningham
  Jul-1842 – Oct-1843: Cunningham & Mortimer
  Nov-1843 – Oct-1845: John Mortimer
  Nov-1845 – Dec-1845: Henry Colburn
  Jan-1846 – Dec-1854: Chapman & Hall

Editors

  Feb-1842 – Jun-1845: William Harrison Ainsworth
  Jul-1845 – Nov-1845: Francis Mahoney & John Mortimer
  Dec-1845 – Dec-1854: William Harrison Ainsworth

Formats

  standard

Prices

  Feb-1842 – Jun-1842: 1/6d
  Jul-1842 – ?: 2/6d

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  BritLit3

Air Action

Total Issues: 3+3+2=8

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1938 – Apr-1939: Pulp Magazine Index 1 (possibly further issues)
  Aug-1939 – Apr-1940, as Sky Raiders: Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Apr-1940 – Sep-1940, as Air Action: Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Columbia Magazines, N.Y.

Editors

  Cliff Campbell

Formats

  standard pulp

Pagecounts

  132pp (later 16pp)

Frequency

  bi-monthly/quarterly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Air Adventures [1928]

Total Issues: 18

Ran Erle Stanley Gardner serial "A Bolt from the Blue" (Oct-1928 - Feb-1929). Other authors include T.T. Flynn, H. Bedford-Jones, Gilbert Patten;

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1928 – Aug-1929: Pulp Magazine Index 3
Fictionmags Website
  Sep-1929 – Mar-1930, as Flyers - Air Adventures: Pulp Magazine Index 3
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Air Adventures, Inc. (Clayton Magazines)

Editors

  'Casey Jones' until Aug-1929, then Allan K. Echols

Formats

  standard pulp

Pagecounts

  144pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Air Adventures [1939]

Total Issues: 2+1=3

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1939 – Feb-1940: Fictionmags Website
  Nov-1945

Publishers

  Ziff-Davis, Chicago

Formats

  pulp

Frequency

  Dec-1939 – Feb-1940: bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Airgedlámh

Total Issues: 1

Semi-professional magazine. Magazine was assembled by Dave McFerran, published after his death by David Sutton and Stephen Jones. All profits from the magazine go to the Cancer Research Campaign.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1980: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   David A. Sutton & Stephen Jones; London.
Editors:   Dave McFerran
Formats:   8¼" x 11¾"
Prices:   £1.50
Pagecounts:   34pp

Air Mail

The Royal Air Forces Association's Membership Magazine, published initially "to further the best interests of airmen and airwomen, particularly when they return home after World War II". Published occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1943? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The Royal Air Forces Association
Formats:   7" x 9" (in 1940s)
Prices:   6d (in 1940s)
Pagecounts:   24pp (in 1940s)

Airplane Stories

Total Issues: 24

Issues & Index Sources

  Mar-1929 – May-1931: Pulp Magazine Index 4 (Missing: Mar-1930, Nov-1930, Jan-1931)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Ramar Reviews

Editors

  William L. Mayer

Formats

  Mar-1929 – Aug-1929: large pulp/bedsheet
  Sep-1929 – May-1931: standard pulp

Pagecounts

  100pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Air Stories [1927]

Total Issues: 58

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug-1927 – Apr-1932: Pulp Magazine Index 3
  Spring 1937 – Winter 1937: Pulp Magazine Index 3
  Spring 1939 – Winter 1939: Pulp Magazine Index 3

Publishers

  Fiction House, N.Y.

Editors

  Aug-1927 – Apr-1932: J.B. Kelly
  Spring 1937 – Winter 1939: Malcolm Reiss

Formats

  standard pulp

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  Aug-1927 – Apr-1932: monthly
  Spring 1937 – Winter 1939: irregular

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Air Stories [1935]

Total Issues: 60

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1935 – Apr-1940: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags is incomplete)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  George Newnes

Editors

  T. Stanhope Sprigg

Formats

  standard pulp; illustrated

Prices

  May-1935 – Mar-1938: 7d
  Apr-1938 – Jul-1939: 9d
  Aug-1939 – Apr-1940: 7d

Pagecounts

  96pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory
Issue Checklist

Air Trails [1928]

Total Issues: 30+7+68=105

Magazine was mostly one lead novel, featuring Bill Barnes, by George L. Eaton, plus one or two short stories. When magazine went non-fiction the Barnes adventures continued in Doc Savage. After Mar-1939 became a hobbyist magazine and dropped all fiction after Sep-1939 issue. It was retitled Young Men in 1954.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1928 – Mar-1931: Fictionmags Website
  Apr-1931 – Oct-1931, as Street & Smith's Air Trails: Fictionmags Website
  Feb-1934 – Sep-1935, as Bill Barnes Air Adventurer: Cook/Miller
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Oct-1935 – Jan-1937, as Bill Barnes Air Trails: Cook/Miller
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Feb-1937 – Sep-1939, as Air Trails: Cook/Miller (MDE to Mar-1939 only; magazine continues without fiction)
Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Street & Smith, NY

Editors

  1928 – 1931: Paul Chadwick
  1931 – 1937: F. Orlin Tremaine
  1937 – 1954: William Winter

Formats

  Oct-1928 – Jan-1936: standard pulp
  Feb-1936 – Sep-1939: bedsheet

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
   
Issue Checklist

Air Trails [1976]

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1976 – Fall 1978: Pulp Magazine Index 1

Air War

Total Issues: 19

Had lead stories by 'Scott Morgan' featuring Captain Danger. Other authors include Robert Sidney Bowen and Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1940 – Winter 1945: Cook/Miller
Pulp Magazine Index 2
Publishers:   Better Publications, N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Air War (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Air War.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1943: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Formats:   pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11
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Air Wonder Stories

Total Issues: 11+66+111+2=200

Merged into Startling Stories after the last issue as Thrilling Wonder Stories. Numbering was resumed in 1957 by the anthology series Wonder Stories, which had two issues although they are really two printings of the same anthology with one story substitution. It is assumed that they were issued at intervals designed to preserve the trademark on the title.

A series of similar anthologies were issued annually, starting in 1964, under several different titles. See Treasury of Great Science Fiction Stories, Great Science Fiction, and Science Fiction Yearbook.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1929 – May-1930: Miller/Contento
  Jun-1930 – Mar/Apr-1936, as Wonder Stories: Miller/Contento
  Aug-1936 – Winter 1955, as Thrilling Wonder Stories: Miller/Contento
  1957 – 1963, as Wonder Stories: Miller/Contento
  Spring 2007 – Summer 2007, as Thrilling Wonder Stories: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Jul-1929 – Oct-1933: Stellar Publications, N.Y. (Hugo Gernsback)
  Nov-1933 – Mar/Apr-1936: Continental Publications (Hugo Gernsback)
  Aug-1936 – Winter 1955: Beacon/Better/Standard Magazines.
  Spring 2007 – Summer 2007: Thrilling Wonder LLC

Editors

  Jul-1929 – Oct-1933: David Lasser
  Nov-1933 – Mar/Apr-1936: Charles D. Hornig
  Aug-1936 – Jun-1941: Mort Weisinger
  Jul-1941 – Fall 1944: Oscar J. Friend
  Winter 1944 – Oct-1951: Sam Merwin, Jr.
  Nov-1951 – Summer 1954: Samuel Mines
  Fall 1954 – Winter 1955: Alexander Samalman.
  Spring 2007 – Summer 2007: Winston Engle

Formats

  Jul-1929 – Oct-1930: large pulp
  Nov-1930 – Oct-1931: standard pulp
  Nov-1931 – Oct-1933: large pulp
  Nov-1933 – Winter 1955: standard pulp
  Spring 2007 – Summer 2007: trade paperback

Prices

  Jul-1929 – May-1930: 25c
  Spring 2007 – Summer 2007: $14.95

Pagecounts

  Jul-1929 – Oct-1930: 96pp
  Nov-1930 – Oct-1931: 144pp
  Nov-1931 – Oct-1933: 96pp (pagination varied)

Frequency

  Jul-1929 – Oct-1935: mostly monthly
  Nov/Dec-1935 – Nov/Dec-1939: bi-monthly
  Jan-1940 – Apr-1941: monthly
  May/Jun-1941 – Jul/Aug-1943: bi-monthly
  Fall 1943 – Fall 1946: quarterly
  Dec-1946 – Aug-1953: bi monthly
  Fall 1953 – Winter 1955: quarterly.

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
   
Issue Checklist

Aklo

Total Issues: 3

Small press "journal of the fantastic" containing a blend of fiction and non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1989 – #3, 1992: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Caermaen Books; Oxford, England
Editors:   Mark Valentine & Roger Dobson
Formats:   octavo


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