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Bitch Magazine

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

Issues & Index Sources: 1992 – ?

Publishers: Hove, East Sussex
Editors: Anne Harrison

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]

see also under Scienti-Snaps

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: Australian Dark Culture

Total Issues: 3 (as at Nov-2008)

A slick Australian magazine concentrating on horror in film and other popular culture outlets, but with one or two stories apiece as well.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-2008 – present:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Brimstone Press
Website:   www.blackmag.com.au
Editors:   Angela Challis
Formats:   A4
Prices:   $7.95
Pagecounts:   56pp

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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