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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

Best of Flying Aces

Total Issues: 1?

Selection of stories from Flying Aces.

Issues & Index Sources:  1970
Formats:   pulp
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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
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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)

Bestsellers (US)

Contains 2 or 3 book condensations in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1945 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Mercury Press


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