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Back Brain Recluse Collections

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1988: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Chris Reed, Smallfield, Surrey.
Editors:   Chris Reed

Background

A story from the May-1962 issue was reprinted in Short Stories International in 1964 which stated that it was a "quarterly that has ceased publication temporarily".

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s

Backwards City Review

Total Issues: 5 (to Aug-2007)

"A journal publishing authors and artists who often don't see their worlds in the same way people around them do."

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 2004 – present: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   PO Box 41317, Greensboro, NC 27404
Website:   homepage.mac.com/languageismycopilot/backwardscitydotnet/
Editors:   Gerry Canavan, Tom Christopher, Don Ezra Cruz, Patrick Egan & Jaimee Hills
Formats:   perfect-bound, 9"x6"
Prices:   $5.00
Frequency:   twice-yearly

Bad Boy's Paper

Total Issues: 21

Issues & Index Sources:  5-Oct-1889 – 1-Mar-1890
Publishers:   Guy Rayner
Frequency:   weekly

The Badminton Magazine

Total Issues: 330

Primarily a sports magazine, but it published a not inconsiderable amount of fiction, and initiated at least two significant series: the "Don Q" stories by Kate & Hesketh Prichard, and the "Experiences of an Irish R.M." stories by Edith Somerville & Martin Ross (both late 1890s).

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug-1895 – Jan-1923

Publishers

  1895 – 1900: Longmans, Green
  1900 – 1902: Heinemann
  Jan-1903 – Jun-1903: The 1900 Publishing Syndicate
  1903 – 1911: Sphere & Tatler
  1911 – 1916: Hulton
  Jul-1916 – Oct-1916: John E. Chandler
  1916 – 1921: H. Reiach for Badminton Magazine
  1921 – 1923: United Newspapers

Editors

  Alfred Edward Thomas Watson

Formats

  standard, illustrated

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory

The Baffler

Total Issues: 17 (to Aug-2007)

Calls itself the American Mercury of the 90s. Publishes writings challenging the mainstream political, cultural and social climate. Prefers essays to fiction and loves works on business culture. Circulation about 20,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1988 – Winter 2006
Publishers:   The Baffler, P.O. Box 378293, Chicago, IL 60637 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Thomas Frank (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   intended as quarterly but seldom more than one or two a year
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Baffling Detective Fact Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Baffling Mysteries, Inc., 404 N. Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, IL
Frequency:   bimonthly
Sources:   CookMDE

Baffling Detective Mysteries

Total Issues: 3

Short-lived sensationalist crime fiction magazine, superseded by the true crime magazine Baffling Detective Fact Cases.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1943 – Jul-1943: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Baffling Mysteries, Inc., N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Bairns Magazine

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1914 – ?

#incorporated into Books for the Bairns

Publishers

  Stead's Publishing House

Frequency

  monthly

Bakka Magazine

Total Issues: 7

A combination magazine/catalogue which contained articles on mystery, science fiction and fantasy, along with the occasional fiction. The 7th issue was described as a special "mystery and suspense" issue and was subtitled "Black Box", which has led some authorities to list it as a separate magazine called Black Box Mystery Magazine but this name was never used.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – Fall 1977: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Bakka Book Stores, Toronto
Editors:   Kathleen Kuklinski
Formats:   large format (11" x 8.5")
Prices:   $1.50 in Fall 1977
Pagecounts:   80pp in Fall 1977
Frequency:   planned as quarterly.
Sources:   CookMDE
 

Balik

Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1976 – Feb-1977: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Simba Reproductions; Hurst, TX
Editors:   Clifford W. Bird
Formats:   quarto

Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine

Total Issues: 462?

The first all-fiction monthly ever published in the US; circulation reached 100,000 by 1857.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1855 – May-1863: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Jun-1863 – Dec-1865, as The Dollar Monthly Magazine
  Jan-1866 – Jun-1893, as Ballou's Monthly Magazine: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Maturin Murray Ballou, Boston

Formats

  quarto

Prices

  10c (in 1855)

Pagecounts

  46pp (in 1855); 100pp (later)

Frequency

  monthly

Ballou's Monthly Magazine

see under Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine

Ballou's Pictorial

see under Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion

Ballyhoo Magazine

Total Issues: ? + 5 = 5+

A humor magazine published by Dell. The fourth issue of the second series, Fall 1953, was SF-oriented, but none of the text features are substantial enough to warrant indexing, although a couple were reprinted in Science Fiction Digest. An Australian edition of this issue is also known to exist.

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug-1931 – Feb-1939: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  1948
  1952
  Winter 1953 – Winter 1954

Publishers

  Dell Publishing

Editors

  in 1934: Norman Anthony
  1948 – Winter 1954: Bill Yates

Formats

  8.5" x 11.5"

Prices

  15c (in 1934)

Pagecounts

  32pp

Frequency

  Aug-1931 – Jul-1938: monthly
  Aug-1938 – Feb-1939: bimonthly/quarterly
  1948 – 1952: irregular
  Winter 1953 – Winter 1954: quarterly
 
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Ballyhoo (UK)

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  1950 – 1951?
Publishers:   Bernard Kaye
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1/6d
Pagecounts:   60pp

Balmy Bedtime Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Balthus

Total Issues: 4

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1971 – #4, 1972: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Jon M. Harvey; Cardiff, England
Editors:   Jon M. Harvey
Prices:   20p-25p
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