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The Blood Review

Total Issues: 4

Semi-professional magazine. This was subtitled "The Journal of Horror Criticism", but it began to run fiction and by issue #4 had a substantial portion of fiction and poetry.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1989 – Oct-1990:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Villegas, Denver
Editors:   Ruben Sosa Villegas
Formats:   quasi-slick (paginations varied)
Prices:   $7
Pagecounts:   72pp
Frequency:   roughly quarterly

Blood Samples

Total Issues: 5?

"A magazine of vampire flash fiction and artwork. It focuses on non-traditional, humorous, and romantic vampire tales."

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-2001 – 2003?:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: all except #1 & #2)

Publishers: Anxiety Publications, PMB 314, 101 Middlesex Tpke Ste 6, Burlington, MA 01803
Editors: Kate Hill

Bloodsongs

Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1994 – 1997:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

1994 – 1996: Bambada Press, Melbourne, Australia
1997: Implosion Publishing, 1921 E. Colonial Drive, 2nd Floor, Orlando, FL 32803

Website

www.bloodsongs.com

Editors

David G. Barnett

Blue Band Magazine

Total Issues: 1

This magazine must have been retitled from something as it began Vol.1 No.2. The Cover says November-December 1931 while the contents page says October-November.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct/Nov-1931:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Blue Band (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Bluebird

Total Issues: 100

Girls' paper. Incorporated into My Weekly (adult)

Issues & Index Sources: 28-Oct-1922 – 20-Sep-1924

Publishers:   D.C. Thomson
Pagecounts:   28pp
Frequency:   weekly

(The) Blue Book (Magazine)

Total Issues: 613 (Vol 1. No. 1 to Vol 103. No. 1)

One of the great general pulps. Later relaunched as a "rather tawdry sex/adventure mag" under the title Bluebook for Men.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1905 – Aug-1906,	as The Monthly Story Magazine
	Index on the Weird & Fantastica in Magazines	(partial data only)
	Fictionmags Website	(partial data only)

Sep-1906 – Apr-1907,	as The Monthly Story Blue Book Magazine
	Index on the Weird & Fantastica in Magazines	(partial data only)
	Index to Blue Book Magazine (in progress)	(partial data only)

May-1907 – Jan-1952,	as The Blue Book Magazine
	Index on the Weird & Fantastica in Magazines	(partial data only)
	Index to Blue Book Magazine (in progress)	(partial data only)

Feb-1952 – May-1956,	as Bluebook
	Index on the Weird & Fantastica in Magazines	(partial data only)

Publishers

  ?: Story-Press Corporation
  ?: Consolidated Magazines
  1929 – ?: McCall

Editors

  ?: Karl Edward Harriman
  1929 – Jan-1952: Donald Kennicott
  Feb-1952 – ?: Maxwell Hamilton
  mid 1950s: Andre Fontaine
  in 1956: Maxwell Hamilton
  ?: Frederick A. Birmingham

Formats

pulp

Prices

10c (rising to 15c)

Pagecounts

192pp (rising to 224pp, later 240pp)

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide




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Bluebook (for Men)

A rather tawdry successor to the classic Blue Book Magazine. By 1967 is called just Bluebook. Issues numbered Vol. 100 No. 1 to Vol. 114 No. 1.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1960 – Jan-1975?

(possibly further issues)

Publishers

  Oct-1960 – ?: H.S. Publications
  Aug-1964 – Mar-1966: Hanro (Sterling)
  Apr-1967 – ?: QMG Magazine Corporation

Editors

Oct-1960 – ?: Maxwell Hamilton
in 1967: B.R. Ampolsk

Formats

slick

Frequency

monthly (some issues bi-monthly)



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The Blue Magazine

Total Issues: 121

Concentrated mostly on adventure, mystery and light romance. Authors include Oliver Sandys, P.C. Wren, William Hope Hodgson, L.A.G. Strong, W.L. George, Ethel Mannin, A.M. Burrage. By late 20s had become a women's romance magazine with a society slant. By final issues had grown to 128pp, 1/- and included illustrations.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1919 – Aug-1929:

Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

(Missing: Oct-1928)

Publishers

  Jul-1919 – Jun-1926: Walbrook & Co., London
  Jul-1926 – Dec-1926: William Southern
  Jan-1927 – Jul/Aug-1928: F.J. Parsons for The Blue Magazine Company
  Sep-1928 – Aug-1929: Link House

Editors

Robert Sievier?; possibly Frank Sellicks to 1926?

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

  Jul-1919 – Jan-1920: 7d
  Feb-1920 – Aug-1920: 9d
  Sep-1920 – Aug-1929: 1/-

Pagecounts

  Jul-1919 – Jan-1928: 96pp
  Feb-1928 – Aug-1928: 104pp
  Sep-1928 – Aug-1929: 128pp

Frequency

monthly (but combined Jul/Aug-1928 issue)

Sources

AgeStory

The Blue Moon

Total Issues: 7?

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1920 – Jun-1921:

Fictionmags Website

(incomplete)

Publishers:   Clayton Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

The Blue Mule

Total Issues: 26

Called 'a western magazine of stories'. Some of the authors included Herman Whitaker, Adriana Spadoni, Peter B. Kyne.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1906 – Apr-1908:	An Index to The Blue Mule
	Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Blue Mule Publishing Co., San Francisco
Editors:   Feb-1906 – Feb-1908: Henry Anderson Lafler
Formats:   standard
Prices:   5c

Blue Peter

Total Issues: 206

A combination of fiction and fact articles about travel, yachting and Motor-boating, with the sub-title "Dramatic Stories of the Seven Seas". Ran from Vol. 1 no. 1 July 1921 to Vol. 19 no. 206 May 1939.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1921 – May-1939:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

#becomes The Trident

Publishers

Blue Peter Publications, 123 Queen Victoria Street, London

Prices

1/- (in 1937)

Blue Ribbon Sports

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1937 – Apr-1940:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Blue Ribbon Magazines (Columbia Publications)
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt



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Blue Ribbon Western

Total Issues: 70?

Usually ran a full-length novel and one or two stories and features.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1936? – Apr/May-1950:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Blue Ribbon Magazines (Columbia Publications)
Editors:   Robert W. Lowndes
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest



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Blue Ribbon Western (UK)

British reprint edition of Blue Ribbon Western.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1939

Blue Star Adventures

Total Issues: 2?

Blue Star #1 was "Ace of the Speedway" by F.G. Rayer, a non-sf adventure story. It would appear that #2 was the only sf title published. Other imprints from this publisher were Green Star Western and Red Star Detective.

Issues & Index Sources: 194?:

Miller/Contento

(sample issue only)

Blue Steel Magazine

Total Issues: 2

Something of a puzzle since this magazine began with Vol.1 No.2 and the second issue is Vol.1 No.4. Steeger says it was an experiment to supplant Gang World though that magazine picked up sales and continued regardless. Authors include Erle Stanley Gardner, Robert Sidney Bowen, T.T. Flynn, Frederick C. Painton. The two issues are the same as the Feb-1932 and Apr-1932 issues of Gang World.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1932 – Jun-1932:	Pulp Magazine Index 2
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Popular Publications, N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly but quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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