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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

Ballyhoo (UK)

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  1950 – 1951?
Publishers:   Bernard Kaye

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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The Baltimore Review

Published biannually, in the winter and the summer, The Baltimore Review is an eclectic collection of writing from Baltimore and beyond.

Issues & Index Sources:  1996 – present
Publishers:   P.O. Box 410, Riderwood, MD 21139 (in 2002); PO Box 36418, Towson, MD 21286 (in 2005)
Website:   www.baltimorereview.org
Editors:   Barbara Westwood Diehl (1996 - 2003); Susan Muaddi Darraj (2003 - present)
Frequency:   twice-yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (not in 2000; in 2002)

Baltimore Saturday Visiter

Notable for the story contest won by Edgar Allan Poe's "Ms Found in a Bottle" (19-Oct-1833).

Issues & Index Sources

  4-Feb-1832 – 26-Jan-1833, as Saturday Morning Visiter
  2-Feb-1833 – 1847, as Baltimore Saturday Visiter

#merges with The National Era

Publishers

  Charles F. Cloud

Frequency

  weekly

Bananas

Total Issues: 26

A literary journal of fiction, poetry and comment, featuring stories by Hilary Bailey, Ballard ("The Air Disaster," "Low-Flying Aircraft," "The Dead Time"), Beryl Bainbridge, Angela Carter ("The Company of Wolves"), Ruth Fainlight, Alan Sillitoe, John Sladek, Tennant, etc.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan/Feb-1975 – Apr-1981: Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Bananas Publishing, 2 Blenheim Crescent, London W11

Editors

  Jan/Feb-1975 – Summer 1978: Emma Tennant (associate editors included J.G. Ballard)
  Autumn 1978 – Apr-1981: Abigail Mozley

Formats

  tabloid

Prices

  30p - 50p

Pagecounts

  28pp - 40pp

Frequency

  intended bimonthly, but soon became quarterly, then irregular
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Banba

Part printed in Gaelic script.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1920s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   The Gael Printing, Publishing & Trading Society, Dublin
Prices:   1/-
Frequency:   monthly

The Band of Hope Review [1904]

"The leading Temperance Periodical for the Young, containing serial and short stories, concerted recitations, prize competitions, etc."

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1904
Publishers:   S.W. Partridge & Co., 8 & 9 Paternoster Row, London E.C.
Prices:   ½d
Frequency:   monthly

Band of Hope Review and Sunday Scholar's Friend

Total Issues: 132

Religious paper. aka Band of Hope Review and Children's Friend.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1851 – Dec-1861
Publishers:   Partridge & Oakey
Pagecounts:   4pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Banshee

SF/fantasy/horror fanzine, mainly publishing vignettes.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1993: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   The Banshee, 16 Rigby Close, Croydon, CR0 4JU, Surrey
Editors:   Rachel Fones
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £1.25
Pagecounts:   52pp

Bare Bone

Total Issues: 8 (to Dec-2005)

Perfect-bound and containing 30,000 words of text, Bare Bone features dark fiction and poetry in various styles and permutations from new and well-established authors.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 2001 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   c/o Kevin L. Donihe, 1742 Madison Street, Kingsport, TN 37665
Website:   users.chartertn.net/mbs/kldwriter/
Editors:   Kevin L. Donihe
Email Address:   kldonihe@yahoo.com
Formats:   Perfect bound, glossy
Pagecounts:   90pp
Frequency:   Triannual

The Bark

Total Issues: 36 (to Jun-2006)

"A literate and entertaining approach to canine culture through essays, stories, poetry, reviews, interviews and artwork."

Issues & Index Sources:  1999 – present
Publishers:   The Bark, 2810-8th St., Berkeley, CA 94710
Website:   www.thebark.com
Editors:   Claudia Kawczynska
Frequency:   bi-monthly (in 2006)

The Barker

Store catalogue for Dark Carnival Books that published some original fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1994 – ?: Fictionmags Website (incomplete)
Publishers:   Dark Carnival Books
Website:   darkcarnival.com/DCOLarchive/
Frequency:   quarterly

Barnabe Mountain Review

Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  1995 – 1999
Publishers:   P.O. Box 529, Lagunitas, CA 94938
Editors:   Gerald Fleming
Frequency:   annual
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (not in 2002)

Bar X Western Magazine

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1947: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Atlas Publishing & Distributing


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