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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


Issue Checklist

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	(Missing: Mar-1930, Nov-1930, Jan-1931)

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	(FicMags is incomplete)

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	(MDE to Mar-1939 only; magazine continues without fiction)

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

Issue Checklist

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