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Best Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 95+24+26=145

As Best Detective Magazine it was predominantly reprint, but when relaunched as Crime Busters it featured "all new stories" mainly with series characters such as "The Gadget Man" and "The Death Angel".

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1929 – Sep-1937: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Nov-1937 – Oct-1939, as Crime Busters: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Nov-1939 – May-1943, as Street & Smith's Mystery Magazine: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Street & Smith, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY

Editors

  Nov-1929 – Sep-1937: Frank E. Blackwell
  Nov-1937 – May-1943: John L. Nanovic

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  Nov-1929 – Aug-1935: 25c
  Sep-1935 – May-1943: 10c (rose to 15c in 1940)

Pagecounts

  Nov-1929 – Aug-1935: 160pp
  Sep-1935 – May-1943: 128pp

Frequency

  monthly to Jul-1940; then bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Best Detective Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Best Detective Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1935: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: All issues)
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11
Issue Checklist

Best Football Novels

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1942: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Standard Magazines, N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   UltGuide

Best for Boys

Total Issues: 27

Issues & Index Sources

  29-Mar-1890 – 20-Sep-1890

#becomes Best for Boys Ching-Ching's Own

Publishers

  Lucas

Frequency

  weekly

Best for Boys Ching-Ching's Own

Total Issues: 83

Issues & Index Sources

  27-Sep-1890 – 23-Apr-1892

#becomes Best for Merry Boys

Publishers

  Best for Boys Co.

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

Best for Boys Library

Issues & Index Sources:  1890 – 1892
Publishers:   Best for Boys Co.

Best for Men

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s

Best for Merry Boys

Total Issues: 59

Issues & Index Sources

  30-Apr-1892 – 17-Jun-1893

#becomes Bits for Boys

Publishers

  Best for Boys Co.

Formats

  tabloid

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

Best Love Magazine

AHGTTP lists one issue in Dec-1936; three in 1943; and four in 1949/1950. Mike Ashley states "Goodman later used this title for a comic-book magazine which succeeded Sub-Mariner in 1949".

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1936 – ?

Publishers

  1943 – 1949: Western Fiction Publishing
  1949 – ?: Manvis Publications 'Red Circle'

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide

Best Love Stories

see under Cupid's Diary

The Best of Argosy Annual

Total Issues: 2

A retrospective anthology in magazine format, issued to celebrate Argosy's one hundredth anniversary. Approximately one third of the contents are SF or fantasy, most of them reprinted from related magazines rather than from Argosy itself.

Issues & Index Sources:  1976: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Popular Publications, Inc.; New York
Editors:   Andrew Sugar
Formats:   large
Prices:   $1.95
Pagecounts:   132pp

The Best of Back Brain Recluse

Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1987: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Chris Reed; Smallfield, Surrey
Editors:   Chris Reed
Prices:   £1.50
Pagecounts:   60pp

The Best of Ghosts & Scholars

Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  1986: Miller/Contento

The Best of Omni Science Fiction

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1980 – #6, 1983: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   6

The Best of the Mage

see under The Mage

The Best Science Fiction

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1964 – #2, 1964: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Galaxy Publishing Co., New York.

Bestseller Mystery Magazine

Total Issues: 17

Conversion of the digest novel series 'Bestseller Mystery' to a magazine. Issues numbered #210-#226.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1958 – Apr-1961: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Mercury Press, N.Y.
Editors:   Joseph W. Ferman
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Bestsellers (UK)

Bestsellers usually reprinted a novel in each issue, but Vol 3 No 9 (1983), titled "Best of Aldiss", contains ten Brian Aldiss short stories, including two originals.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1983: Miller/Contento (sample issue only)


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