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Magazine Issues

Astounding Stories/Science-Fiction

Total Issues: 920 (to Jun-2007)

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1930 – Sep-1960:

Miller/Contento

Oct-1960 – present, as Analog:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Jan-1930 – Mar-1933: Clayton Magazines
  Oct-1933 – Jan-1961: Street & Smith Publications
  Feb-1961 – Aug-1980: Conde Nast
  Sep-1980 – Aug-1992: Davis Publications
  Sep-1992 – present: Dell Magazines

Website

analogsf.com/

Editors

  Jan-1930 – Mar-1933: Harry Bates
  Oct-1933 – Nov-1937: F. Orlin Tremaine
  Dec-1937 – Dec-1971: John W. Campbell, Jr.
  Jan-1972 – Nov-1978: Ben Bova
  Dec-1978 – present: Stanley Schmidt

Formats

  Jan-1930 – Dec-1941: standard pulp
  Jan-1942 – Apr-1943: bedsheet
  May-1943 – Oct-1943: pulp
  Nov-1943 – Jan-1963: digest
  Mar-1963 – Mar-1965: large format
  Apr-1965 – present: digest

Frequency

mostly monthly, though four-weekly 5-Jan-1981 - Feb-1996; now monthly with combined Jul/Aug issue

Title Changes

  Jan-1930 – Jan-1931: Astounding Stories of Super-Science
  Feb-1931 – Nov-1932: Astounding Stories
  Jan-1933 – Mar-1933: Astounding Stories of Super-Science
  Oct-1933 – Feb-1938: Astounding Stories
  Mar-1938 – Sep-1960: Astounding Science-Fiction
  Oct-1960 – Mar-1965: Analog Science Fact-Fiction
  Apr-1965 – present: Analog Science Fiction-Fact

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide




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Astounding Stories / Science Fiction (UK)

Total Issues: 222

British reprint edition of Astounding Science Fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1939 – Jan-1961:

Fictionmags Website

Feb-1961 – Aug-1963, as Analog (UK):

Fictionmags Website

Sources

AgeStory



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Astounding Stories Yearbook

Total Issues: 2

Despite the title all stories are reprinted from Amazing.

Issues & Index Sources

1970:

Miller/Contento

Fall 1970, as Astounding SF:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Ultimate Publishing Co.; Flushing, NY

Formats

digest

Prices

50c-60c

Pagecounts

132pp

Astral Dimensions

Total Issues: 6

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1975 – Fall 1977:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Chris Marler & Mark Jacobs; Staatsburg, NY
Editors:   Chris Marler & Mark Jacobs
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   70c-$1.50

Astro-Adventures

Total Issues: 8

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1987 – Jun-1989:	Miller/Contento
	Keys to Other Doors

Publishers:   Cryptic Publications
Editors:   Robert M. Price
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $4.50



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Atalanta

Total Issues: 132

Notable children's magazine; authors included Mrs Molesworth, Robert Louis Stevenson.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1887 – Sep-1898

Publishers

  1887 – 1890: Hatchards
  1890 – 1892: Trischler & Co.
  1892 – 1898: Marshall Bros., London

Editors

  1887 – 1892: L. T. Meade, with various co-eds
  1892 – 1896: A.B. Symington
  1896 – 1898: Edwin Oliver

Formats

standard

Prices

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AgeStory

The Athenaeum

One of the most widely circulated and influential weekly literary reviews of the Victorian era, it set the standard for nonpartisan, professional criticism of literature (both English and foreign), art, music, drama, and science.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1828 – Feb-1921:

Index to Periodical Literature

(1882 - 1906 only)

#merges with The Nation

Editors

  Jan-1828 – May-1830: James Silk Buckingham
  Jun-1830 – 1846: Charles Wentworth Dilke
  1846 – 1853: T.K. Hervey
  1853 – 1869: Hepworth Dixon
  1869 – 1871: John Doran
  1871 – 1900: Norman MacColl

Frequency

weekly

Sources

BritLit2

The Athenian Mercury

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1691 – 1697

Publishers: John Dunton

Athlete

Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1939 – Apr-1940:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt



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Athletes Story Book

Total Issues: 15

Incorporated into Great Fights (adult magazine).

Issues & Index Sources: 19-Oct-1909 – 25-Jan-1910

Publishers:   Health & Strength
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   weekly

At Home and Abroad

Total Issues: 44

Issues & Index Sources: 23-Feb-1870 – 21-Dec-1870

Publishers: H. Lea
Frequency: weekly

Atkinson's Casket

see under Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine

Atlan

see under Perry Rhodan

Atlanta Review

Emphasis is on poetry but also publishes short fiction and interviews with an international perspective. Does not pay for contributions. Circulation about 6,000 copies.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1994 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Daniel Veach, P.O. Box 8248, Atlanta, GA 31106 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.atlantareview.com/
Editors:   Daniel Veach (in 2000 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002); DirLit99

The Atlantic Monthly

Total Issues: 1707 (to 1-2000)

Although initially it relied heavily on New England, under Howell the magazine broadened its appeal. Circulation 100,000 in 1921 and about 260,000 in 1961. Authors include Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Sarah Orne Jewett, Booker T. Washington, Edward Everett Hale. Still a strong magazine of review and comment in 1999, publishing about one short story per issue; absorbed Galaxy in Feb 1878; twice retitled itself The Atlantic (Jul-1932 - Jun-1971; Apr-1981 - Oct-1993)

From 2005 stopped publishing fiction in each issue in favour of an annual all-fiction issue (in August).

Address in 1998 - 2002 was 77 N. Washington Street, Boston, MA 02114.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1857 – present:	Index to Periodical Literature	(Poole to 1906 only; Hannigan Jan-1900 - Dec-1914 only)
	The Standard Index of Short Stories	(Poole to 1906 only; Hannigan Jan-1900 - Dec-1914 only)

Publishers

  Nov-1857 – Oct-1859: Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston
  1859 – 1874: Ticknor & Fields, and successors, Boston
  1874 – 1908: H.O. Houghton
  Aug-1908 – present: Atlantic Monthly

Website

www.theatlantic.com

Editors

  Nov-1857 – Jun-1861: James Russell Lowell
  Jul-1861 – Jul-1871: James T. Fields
  Aug-1871 – Jan-1881: W. Dean Howells
  Feb-1881 – Mar-1890: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  Apr-1890 – Jul-1898: Horace E. Scudder
  Aug-1898 – Jul-1899: Walter Hines Page
  Aug-1899 – Jul-1909: Bliss Perry
  Aug-1909 – Jun-1938: Ellery Sedgwick
  Jul-1938 – 1966: Edward Weeks
  present: C. Michael Curtis

Formats

standard, moving to large slick format in Jul-1942

Frequency

monthly

Sources

OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)



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Atlantis

Issues & Index Sources

1858 – 1863:

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 3

1870:

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 3

Atom Mind

Focus on the original voices in modern US literature - Kerouac, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemingway. Runs poetry, short fiction and essays. Has published Charles Plymell, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski. Circulation about 1,000.

Issues & Index Sources

1968 – 1970

1993 – present

Publishers

Mother Road Publications, Albuquerque, NM

Editors

Gregory Smith

Formats

review

Frequency

quarterly

Atopos

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Spring/Summer 1991:

Miller/Contento

Publishers: Atopos, Wausau, WI.