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Magazine Issues

Bits for Boys

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources

24-Jun-1893 – 9-Sep-1893

#becomes The Prince (UK)

Publishers

Best for Boys Co.

Frequency

weekly

Bits For Our Boys

Total Issues: 144

Issues & Index Sources: 23-Jan-1902 – 1909

Publishers: Barbour
Frequency: monthly

Bizarre [1948]

Total Issues: 1

This extremely rare Canadian magazine contains no publication data whatsoever, not surprising since it appears to have pirated the stories. According to Forrest J Ackerman it was published in Canada sometime in the late Forties.

Issues & Index Sources: 1948:

Miller/Contento

Bizarre [1941]

Bizarre Bazaar

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1992 – #3, 1994:

Miller/Contento

Publishers: Tal Publications, Leesburg, VA.

Bizarre Fantasy Tales

Total Issues: 2

Mostly reprint with emphasis on longer stories.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1970 – Mar-1971:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Health Knowledge, Inc., N.Y.
Editors:   Robert A.W. Lowndes
Formats:   small digest
Prices:   60c (75c)
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   planned as quarterly

Bizarre! Mystery Magazine

Total Issues: 3

Despite the title and the editorial promise of "the supernatural, the weird, the wild, the fantastic", the magazine mainly contained stories of murder mystery and suspense.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1965 – Jan-1966:	Miller/Contento
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Pamar Enterprises, Concord, NH
Editors:   John Poe
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   144pp
Frequency:   planned as monthly
Sources:   CookMDE


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Black Aces

Total Issues: 7

Subtitled "Lone Wolf Stories of Action", Black Aces was a short-lived Black Mask imitation that never quite hit the hard-boiled mark.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1932 – Jul-1932:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Fiction House, 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY.
Editors:   J.F. Byrne (in Jul-1932)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Black American Literature Forum

see under African American Review

Black and White

Total Issues: 1093

Published much fiction; authors include Henry James, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Robert Barr, A. E. W. Mason, Jerome K. Jerome and E. Nesbit.

Issues & Index Sources

6-Feb-1891 – 13-Jan-1912

#merges with The Sphere

Publishers

Black and White

Editors

  1891 – 1892?: Charles N. Williamson
  1892? – 1895: Oswald Crawfurd
  1895 – 1897: James Nicol Dunn
  1897 – 1900: W.D. Ross
  1901 – 1903: Arthur Mee
  1903 – 1905: J.M. Gibbon
  1906 – 1912: Spencer Arnold

Formats

slick

Frequency

weekly

Sources

AgeStory

Black Bat Detective Mysteries

Total Issues: 6

Murray Leinster wrote these 'Black Bat' stories, though not the same crime-fighter as in Black Book Detective. Other authors include Arthur J. Burks, Norman A. Daniels, Laurence Donovan, Paul Ernst.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1933 – Apr-1934:	Pulp Magazine Index 4	(Missing: Jan-1934)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Jan-1934)

Publishers:   The Berryman Press, 103 Park Avenue, New York, NY.
Editors:   Perry Waxman (possibly Percy Waxman)
Formats:   standard pulp
Pagecounts:   20c
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Black Belt Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1983:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Black Bess Library

Total Issues: 16+38+?=54+

"First few issues of second series were reprints from Viles Black Bess and the remainder reprints from the Aldine Dick Turpin Library" (W.O.G. Lofts)

Issues & Index Sources

29-Jan-1921 – 1921

15-Oct-1921 – 22-Jul-1922

Oct-1922 – ?

Publishers

Newnes

Pagecounts

36pp

Frequency

weekly; monthly

Black Book Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 95

A fairly average pulp until it introduced the character of The Black Bat crimefighter in Jul-1939 issue. Stories credited to house name G. Wayman Jones.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1933 – Jan-1941:	Pulp Magazine Index 1
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Mar-1941 – Winter 1953, as Black Book Detective:	Pulp Magazine Index 1
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Jun-1933 – Jun-1934: Newsstand Publications
  Aug-1934 – Apr-1935: Lincoln Hoffman
  Jan-1936 – Jun-1937: Ranger Publications
  Mar-1938 – Winter 1953: Better Publications [Standard Magazines]

Editors

Jun-1933 – Jun-1937: Ward Marshall
Mar-1938 – ?: Harvey Burns

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

  Jun-1933 – Jun-1937: monthly, but irregular
  May-1938 – May-1943: bi-monthly
  Summer 1943 – Fall 1946: quarterly
  Feb-1947 – May-1949: bi-monthly
  Summer 1949 – Winter 1953: quarterly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Black Book Detective Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Black Book Detective Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: All issues)

Formats: standard pulp
Sources: Pulpster11


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Black Book Detective (UK)

Total Issues: 4?

British reprint edition of Black Book Detective Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: 1946 – 1947?:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Pemberton's (of Manchester) Ltd.
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp
Sources:   CookMDE


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Black Box Mystery Magazine

This title is listed by Mike Cook in MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, AND ESPIONAGE MAGAZINES as a retitling of {Bakka Magazine}, but closer examination shows that the magazine was still called {Bakka Magazine} and simply used {Black Box} as a subtitle on the seventh issue.

The Black Cat (US)

Total Issues: 299+6+5?=310

A very off-trail magazine which liked to publish unusual stories and featured a large amount of fantasy in its early years. Authors include Jack London, Octavus Roy Cohen, Ellis Parker Butler, Cleveland Moffett, Harry Stephen Keeler, Frank Lillie Pollock.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1895 – Dec-1922?:	Miller/Contento	(Missing: v26 #1, v26 #3, Aug-1922, Dec-1922)
	Fictionmags Website	(Missing: v26 #1, v26 #3, Aug-1922, Dec-1922)

Publishers

  1895 – 1919: Short Story
  1920: Black Cat
  1922: William Kane

Editors

  1895 – 1912: Herman D. Umbstaetter
  1912: Theresa Dyer
  1914: T.H. Kelly
  1915 – 1919: Harold E. Bessom
  1922: William R. Kane

Formats

1895 – 1914: 6" x 9"
1915 – 1922: standard

Prices

Pagecounts

64pp

Frequency

monthly; last few issues irregular

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide



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The Black Cat (UK)

Total Issues: 25

Subtitled "A monthly magazine of Short Stories and Bright Literature by the Best Writers," this was not a British edition of the American original. Published mostly mystery stories and some ghost stories. Material by Fergus Hume, J. Colne Dacre, Percy J. Barrow, E.M. Critchley and Erskine M. Hamilton.

Styled itself The Black Cat Penny Stories on the cover of the final two issues.

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1898 – Feb-1900:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Feb-1898 – Dec-1898: John Davis & Co., Granville House, Arundel St., The Strand, London
  Jan-1899 – Jun-1899: Davis & Company, Granville House, Arundel St., The Strand, London
  Jul-1899 – Feb-1900: New Century Press, London

Editors

George C. Dusart

Formats

large booklet (roughly 9" x 6")

Prices

Pagecounts

Varied considerably. First issue 32pp of text, 24pp advertising. Thereafter settled chiefly at 48pp but April 1898, 64pp; January 1899, 96pp; February 1899, 64pp; July and August 1899, 36pp; September to November 1899, 40pp; final three issues, 32pp.

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AgeStory