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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

  The Age of the Storytellers

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:   O. Henry Awards Website (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:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

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Short-lived sensationalist crime fiction magazine, superseded by the true crime magazine Baffling Detective Fact Cases.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: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Baffling Mysteries, Inc., N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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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: 6

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:  Spring 1975 – Fall 1977: Fictionmags Website
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:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
 

Balik (fnz)

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

Total Issues: 86+6+2? = 94?

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
  Summer 1953 – Winter 1954
  Feb-1962 – Jun-1962?

Publishers

  1931 – 1954: Dell Publishing
  1962: Laurie Publications

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
  Summer 1953 – Winter 1954: quarterly
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Ballyhoo (UK)

Total Issues: 7

Featured "stories, joke and cartoons".

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 (fnz)

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:   O. Henry Awards Website (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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