Magazine Data Page 28

Magazine Issues  
Home Prev Next Magazine Index Magazine Glossary


The Avalonian

Total Issues: 1

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  1952: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Lilith Lorraine; New Orleans, LA
Editors:   Lilith Lorraine
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $1.50
Pagecounts:   56pp

Avant Garde

Total Issues: 14

Magazine (practically a book) issued by Ralph Ginzburg and sold only through the mail. Contains a small amount of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1968 – 1971?
Editors:   Ralph Ginzburg
Formats:   11" by 11"
Pagecounts:   78pp
Frequency:   initially bi-monthly; later quarterly

The Avenger

Total Issues: 24

One of the last new hero pulps. The Avenger lead novels were written by Paul Ernst under the Kenneth Robeson house name. After first few issues only 1 or 2 supporting short stories.

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1939 – Sep-1942: Miller/Contento
Cook/Miller

Publishers

  Street & Smith

Editors

  John L. Nanovic

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  Sep-1939 – Jul-1940: monthly
  Sep-1940 – Sep-1942: bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Aviation Stories

Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1929 – Jul-1930: Pulp Magazine Index 4 (Missing: Jul-1930)
Publishers:   Good Story Publishing Co. (Harold Hersey)
Editors:   Harold Hersey, probably with Douglas Dold
Formats:   standard pulp
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Avon Annual

Total Issues: 4

Contained literary reprints.

Issues & Index Sources:  1944 – 1947: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Avon Books, N.Y.
Formats:   digest
Frequency:   annual
Sources:   UltGuide

Avon Detective Mysteries

Total Issues: 3

Arguably a reprint anthology like Avon Fantasy Reader, though it carried a few new stories. Magazine folded when Herbert Williams left Avon.

Issues & Index Sources:  1947: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Avon Book Company, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, New York
Editors:   Herbert Williams
Formats:   digest
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Avon Fantasy Reader

Total Issues: 18

A series of digest-sized anthologies. Don Day indexed them as magazines and SF fans have traditionally considered them as such.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1947 – #18, 1952: Miller/Contento
Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Avon
Editors:   Donald A. Wollheim
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Sources:   UltGuide
More Images

Avon Modern Short Story Monthly

A halfway house between a magazine and paperback anthology series, this was a generic title for a series of single-author reprint collections which ran for a number of years; authors included John O'Hara, William Saroyan, Sinclair Lewis, Somerset Maugham, John Steinbeck, Louis Bromfield, Fannie Hurst.

Issues & Index Sources:  1943 – ?: Monthly Murders (sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Avon Books, N.Y.
Formats:   digest
Frequency:   monthly

Avon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader

Total Issues: 2

A merger in magazine form of two previous digest-format primarily reprint anthology series, Avon Fantasy Reader (1947 - 1952) and Avon Science Fiction Reader (1951 - 1952, 3 issues) both edited by Donald A. Wollheim. This magazine ran new stories of good quality. Authors include Jack Vance, Arthur C. Clarke, John Christopher, Alfred Coppel, Theodore Cogswell.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1953 – Apr-1953: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Jan-1953: Avon Novels Inc., New York
  Apr-1953: Stratford Novels Inc., New York

Editors

  Sol Cohen

Formats

  digest

Prices

  35c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  quarterly

Sources

  UltGuide

Avon Science Fiction Reader

Total Issues: 3

A series of digest-sized anthologies. Don Day indexed them as magazines and SF fans have traditionally considered them as such.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1951 – #3, 1952: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Avon
Editors:   Donald A. Wollheim
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Sources:   UltGuide

Avon Western Reader

Total Issues: 4 (at least)

A halfway house between a magazine and paperback anthology series, this reprinted western stories and lasted for a handful of issues in the later 1940's.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1947: Fictionmags Website (Missing: any after #4)
Publishers:   Avon Books, N.Y.
Editors:   Herbert Williams (initially)
Formats:   digest
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   UltGuide

The Babbler

Total Issues: 105?

Issues & Index Sources:  1948 – 1972?
Publishers:   in London
Editors:   A. Harrop
Frequency:   irregular

Baby Bunting Stories

Issues & Index Sources:  1920 – 1921
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Frequency:   issued in sets of 4

Baby: the Mother's Magazine

see under Lloyd's Story Magazine

Bachelor Magazine

Men's magazine that published some stories by Barry Malzberg. At least two different series, one in 1957/1958 (starting with Volume 2 #1) and a second one in the 1960s. Annual selections from the latter appeared from 1964 as Bachelor's Best.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1957 – Nov-1958?
  1961? – 1971?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Magtab Publications, 880 Third Avenue, N.Y. (in 1960s)

Editors

  Ted Gottfried (in 1960s)
More Images

Bachy

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1972 – Spring 1981
Publishers:   Papa Bach Bookstore, Los Angeles

Back Brain Recluse

Total Issues: 24

Small press magazine of high quality exploring more experimental fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1984 – #24, 2002: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   BBR, PO Box 625, Sheffield S1 3GY
Website:   www.bbr-online.com/backbrainrecluse
Editors:   Chris Reed
Formats:   octavo (#15) at outset; quarto from Spring 1990; #24 was trade paperback
Pagecounts:   40/56pp, 44pp from Spring 1990
Frequency:   irregular, #23 was Spring 1997 and #24 was October 2002
   
More Images


Home Prev Next Magazine Index Magazine Glossary