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Magazine Issues

Bestsellers (US)

Contains 2 or 3 book condensations in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1945 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Mercury Press

Best Sports (Magazine)

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1937 – Dec-1939:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Oct-1947 – Sep-1948

Feb-1950 – Dec-1951

Publishers

1937 – 1948: Manvis Publications 'Red Circle'
Feb-1950 – Dec-1951: Atlas News

Editors

Robert O. Erisman

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

Quarterly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt



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Best Stories

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1946 – ?

Publishers:   B.E.C. Publishing, 1745 Broadway, NY 19
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   WorldCat

Best Stories for Girls and Boys

First issue contained "19 stories for children including Pluto and the Puppy by Walt Disney Studios from the Mickey Mouse Magazine".

Issues & Index Sources: 1938 – ?

Publishers:   The Parents Institute Inc.
Formats:   7½" x 5½"
Pagecounts:   128pp

Best Stories (of All Time)

Total Issues: 4+25+6=35

Originally a reprint magazine modelled on Golden Book; always remained chiefly reprint, but shifted to westerns and sf/fantasy in 1928. See "A Rose by any Other Name" by Darrell C. Richardson (Pulp vault #11)

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1925 – Sep-1925, as Clever Truths

Oct-1925 – Nov-1927, as Best Stories:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Feb-1928 – Jul-1928, as Pioneer Tales:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: Jul-1928)

Aug-1928, as American Pioneer Tales:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers

Jun-1925 – Nov-1927: Clever Truths, Chicago
Feb-1928 – Aug-1928: Metropolitan Publications, Chicago

Editors

Samuel Bierman (at least for Pioneer Tales)

Formats

standard book paper; converted to full pulp in 1927; large pulp between Aug-1926 - Apr-1927

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide

Best-Story Magazine

Total Issues: 33

Mostly reprint but some new stories. Absorbed The Smart Set and Standard Stories from Oct-1926. Mostly ran adventure/mystery stories with reprints by Eden Phillpotts, Beatrice Grimshaw, Oliver Onions, Thomas Burke, H.G. Wells, Sax Rohmer, E.F. Benson, Rafael Sabatini.

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1926 – Apr-1929:

Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

#merges with Hutchinson's Story Magazine

Publishers

Hutchinson

Editors

Evelyn Hornibrook

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

1/-

Pagecounts

  Aug-1926: 224pp
  Sep-1926 – Apr-1928: 192pp
  May-1928 – Apr-1929: 144pp

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AgeStory

Best True Fact Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Sources: CookMDE



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Best Western (Magazine)

AHGTTP has issues from 1935 to 1938, 1940 to 1942, 1948 to 1949 and 1951 to 1957.

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1935 – Mar-1957:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  1935 – 1942: Western Fiction Publishing [Red Circle]
  1948 – 1949: Interstate Publishing
  1951 – 1957: Stadium Publishing

Editors

Robert O. Erisman

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

bi-monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest



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Best Western Novels (Magazine)

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1940 – Jan-1944?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Nov-1947 – Mar-1949?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Interstate Pub. Co., NY

Formats

standard pulp

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest



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Better Little Books

Unnumbered series of book released in batches of 12; total unknown, but over 100.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers: Rafael Tuck

Betty's Paper

Total Issues: 991

Young women's story paper. "Uses strong, very emotional love stories making a special appeal to girls and women. Children's stories are not wanted. Serials about 60,000 words, complete stories of 12,000 and 3,000 words."

Issues & Index Sources: 11-Nov-1922 – 15-Nov-1941

Publishers:   Allied Newspapers Ltd., 44 Shoe Lane, London E.C.4
Editors:   Miss Lassells.
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   weekly

Betty's Weekly

Total Issues: 7

Young women's story paper.

Issues & Index Sources

12-Feb-1916 – 25-Mar-1916

#merges with Woman's Weekly

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Frequency

weekly

Beyond [1981]

Total Issues: 3?

SF magazine containing stories by Harlan Ellison & Robert Silverberg apparently issued only as free supplements in (some) college newspapers.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1981 – Spring 1982?:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: Winter 1982)

Publishers:   Alan Weston Publishing, 1680 N. Vine, Suite 900, Hollywood, CA 90025
Editors:   Judith Sims
Formats:   small newsprint tabloid, 11.5" wide and 14" tall
Prices:   free
Pagecounts:   32pp

Beyond [1985]

Total Issues: 21

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1985 – #21, 1991:

Miller/Contento

Beyond Centauri

Total Issues: 15 (to Jan-2007)

Beyond Centauri is a magazine of fantasy, science fiction, and ewww-gross for younger readers for readers of all ages, published quarterly on the 1st day of January, April, July, and October. Beyond Centauri publishes short stories, poems, illustrations, puzzles, articles, and movie reviews.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-2003 – present:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Sam's Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, IA
Website:   www.samsdotpublishing.com
Editors:   Tyree Campbell
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $5.00
Pagecounts:   36pp

Beyond Fantasy Fiction

Total Issues: 10

Retitled Beyond Fiction for last two issues.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1953 – #10, 1955:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Galaxy Publishing, N.Y.
Editors:   Horace L. Gold
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   160pp (dropped to 128pp last two issues)
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide



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