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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.