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Big-Book Western Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Big-Book Western Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Popular Publications Canada
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11

Big-Book Western Magazine (UK)

Total Issues: 16?

British reprint edition of Big-Book Western Magazine. Issues #15 and #16 (at least) are subtitled "Combined with Walt Coburn's Western Magazine".

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Publishers:   Hermitage Publications, Leicester
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-

Big Budget

Total Issues: 614

At various times a boys' comic or story paper, later merged with The Comet. Incorporates: Boys' Leader.

Issues & Index Sources

  19-Jun-1897 – 20-Mar-1909

Publishers

  C. Arthur Pearson, Henrietta St., W.C.

Editors

  1897: William H. Maas
  1897 – 1909: Arthur Brooke [Arthur C. Marshall]
  c. 1897: Herbert Wentworth James (assistant editor)
  1903 – ?: C. Malcolm Hincks [assistant]

Formats

  tabloid, published in sections

Pagecounts

  24pp

Frequency

  weekly (every Wednesday)

Big Budget Library

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1904: Story Paper Index (both issues dated January)
Publishers:   C. Arthur Pearson
Formats:   8½ x 5½"
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   96pp

Big Chief Western

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1940 – Feb-1941: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Frank A. Munsey Company, N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   112pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Big Detective

Total Issues: 1?

Although most of the issues were titled Big Detective Cases and contained true crime, the first issue (at least) contained fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1941: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: all issues)
Publishers:   Super Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
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Big Double Feature Magazine

Total Issues: 1

One-shot consisting of a copy of Ranch Romances and a copy of Black Mask (September 1939) bundled together with a new two-color cover. No date listed, could be 1939.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1940: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Pro-Distributors Publishing
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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The Big Issue

Weekly news magazine distributed by the homeless who keep a portion of the profits. Occasionally publishes fiction by authors like Jeff Noon. Has a number of regional variations such as The Big Issue in the North.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1994? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The Big Issue
Formats:   A4
Prices:   £1.00
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Big Magazine

Total Issues: 1

"The Big Magazine was published in order to absorb some of the stories we had inherited with Adventure." Steeger in Xenophile #33 (Jul-1977) p.6

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1935: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Popular Publications, N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   224pp
Frequency:   planned as monthly
Sources:   UltGuide

BIGnews

Monthly news magazine distributed by the homeless who keep a portion of the profits. Most issues have at least one piece of fiction, often by Robert Sheckley.

Issues & Index Sources

  ? – Mar-2005: Fictionmags Website (Missing: all issues before Nov-2001)
  Fall 2005: Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Mainchance, A Program of Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services Corporation

Formats

  quarto

Prices

  $1.00
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Big Sports Magazine

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1948 – Nov-1948: Fictionmags Website (Missing: May 1948)
Publishers:   Standard Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt

Big Story Magazine (1925)

Total Issues: 1+9+3=13

Jan-1925 issue is a rebound copy of Ace-High Magazine.

There was also a non-fiction digest magazine of the same title based on radio and TV shows, and edited by Walter B. Gibson, in 1951.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1925
  Jan-1929 – Oct-1929: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Nov-1929 – Jan-1930, as Western Novel Magazine

Publishers

  Western Stories Publishing (Clayton Magazines, N.Y.)

Formats

  standard pulp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide

Big Story Magazine (1951)

A non-fiction digest magazine based on radio and TV shows.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1951
Editors:   Walter B. Gibson
Formats:   digests

Bill Barnes, Air Adventurer

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Bill Barnes Air Trails

see under Air Trails

Bill Barnes, Air Trails (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Bill Barnes, Air Trails.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11

Bill Wayne's Western Magazine

Total Issues: 3?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1942 – May-1942?: Fictionmags Website (Missing: Jan-1942; any after May-1942)
Publishers:   Adam Publishing Co., Toronto
Sources:   Pulpster11

Bitch Magazine

"Humorous magazine for women... fiction... maximum 1500 words".

Issues & Index Sources:  1992 – ?
Publishers:   Hove, East Sussex
Editors:   Anne Harrison


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