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Black Mask (Canada)

Initially a Canadian reprint edition of Black Mask; later reprinted stories from other US detective pulps.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s – in 1940s: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Popular Publications Canada
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11
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Black Mask (Detective) (UK)

Total Issues: 204+120=324

British reprint edition of Black Mask. There were two distinct series. The first series ran for 204 issues from Jun-1923 to Oct-1939. This series was printed in the US for UK distribution; had the same covers as the US editions apart for UK price (sometimes); and reprinted the entire contents of the US edition, plus frequently an additional story or two. Initially the additional stories were reprinted from US issues that had not appeared in the UK but in later issues no prior appearance can be traced (in Black Mask or anywhere else) so they might be original stories that ONLY appeared in the UK issues. The numbering system on these issues was specific to the UK issues and ran from v1 #1 to v17 #12.

The second series ran for 120 issues from Nov-1939 to Nov-1953 (at least). This series was printed in the UK; had different covers to the US issues; typically was a partial reprint of assorted US issues, initially of Black Mask but in later years of other magazines such as Dime Detective. Atlas used a strange numbering system on these (consistent with all the other US pulps they distributed during this period) - initially they used the volume/issue number of the corresponding US issue, then they had no volume/issue numbers at all, and then they settled into a UK-specific numbering that was implicitly backdated to the first Atlas issue.

Issues & Index Sources

  15-Jun-1923? – Oct-1939: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (incomplete)
  Nov-1939 – Nov-1953: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (incomplete)

Publishers

  Atlas Publishing and Distributing Ltd.

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  AgeStory
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Black Mask [1974]

Total Issues: 1

Reprint issue; see also New Black Mask. Note that Keith Alan Deutsch negotiated the purchase of the "Title" Black Mask Magazine from Fred Dannay, while Adrian Lopez "bankrolled" the enterprise. A second issue was finished, but never went to press because Lopez bought TRUE magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1974: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Lopez Publications, 21 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
Editors:   Keith Alan Deutsch
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   $1.00
Pagecounts:   96pp
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Black October Magazine

Total Issues: 7

The magazine of gothic and psychological horror, including fiction, poetry, artwork, reviews, essays, and more.

Issues & Index Sources:  v1 #1, 1996 – Oct-2005?: Miller/Contento
 

Black Oracle (fnz)

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1970s
Editors:   John DiPrete

Black Orpheus

Total Issues: 22+1+2=25

A journal of African and Afro-American literature.

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1957 – 1967: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  1968
  Jan/Jun-1974 – 1975

Publishers

  Ministry of Education/Mbari Club, Ibadan, Nigeria

Editors

  Ezekiel Mphahlele; Ulli Beier

Pagecounts

  64pp/72pp

Black Petals

Total Issues: 41

Went online in 2008 starting with #42.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1997? – Autumn 2007: Miller/Contento (Missing: any in v1, any in v2, Spring 2001, Winter 2002)

Publishers

  Dec-1997? – 1999: D.M. Yorton, 1319 Marshall St., Manitowoc, WI 54220
  Autumn 1999 – Autumn 2007: Fossil Publications, 11627 Taft, Witchita, KS 67209

Website

  blackpetalsks.tripod.com

Editors

  Dec-1997? – 1999: D.M. Yorton
  Autumn 1999 – Autumn 2007: Kenneth James Crist & John Gollihar

Email Address

  blkptls@yahoo.com (or blkptls@cox.net)

Formats

  octavo

Prices

  $5.00

Pagecounts

  88+

Frequency

  quarterly
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Black Rose

Total Issues: 6

Small press supernatural/ghost, horror and dark fantasy magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1998 – Jan-2001: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Black Rose Publications
Editors:   David P. Dunning
Formats:   A4
Prices:   £2.50
Pagecounts:   60
Frequency:   twice-yearly

Black Satellite

Total Issues: 7 (to Dec-2006)

"A magazine of weird horror and startling science fiction, showcasing the talents of new authors and veterans of the small press".

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 2001 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Darktree Press, PO Box 748, Boylston, MA 01505
Website:   www.darktreepress.com
Editors:   Brian Lingard
Email Address:   editor@darktreepress.com
Prices:   $4.00
Frequency:   Triannual

Black Static

see under The Third Alternative

Black Tears

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1994 – #10, 1995: Miller/Contento

Black Tulip Thriller Romances

Not a magazine but a series of romantic novellas published by Fleetway Publications in 1959.

Black Warrior Review

Total Issues: 56 (to Dec-2002)

Publishes new writings from both established and emerging writers. Has published Billy Collins, Barry Hannah, Dev Hathaway. Payment for contributions. Circulation 3,000.

Issues & Index Sources

  Fall 1974 – present

Publishers

  University of Alabama, P.O. Box 862936, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-0027 (in 1998 - 2002)

Website

  webdelsol.com/bwr/ (or www.sa.ua.edu/osm/bwr)

Editors

  in 1994: Mark S. Drew
  in 1998: Mindy Wilson
  in 2000: Laura Didyk

Formats

  review

Pagecounts

  200pp

Frequency

  twice yearly

Sources

  OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Blackwood's (Edinburgh) Magazine

Total Issues: 1982

Arguably the most influential magazine of the Victorian period and called, by Sutherland "the outstanding magazine vehicle for fiction in the nineteenth century." Set the standard and format imitated by many. Authors include John Galt, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg, Samuel Warren, Bulwer Lytton, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan ("The 39 Steps" 1915) and many more. entitled Edinburgh Monthly Magazine for first six issues.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1817 – Dec-1900: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 1
Index to Periodical Literature
  Jan-1901 – Dec-1980: An Index to Blackwood's Magazine

Publishers

  William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh

Editors

  Apr-1817 – Sep-1817: James Cleghorn & Thomas Pringle
  Oct-1817 – Sep-1834: William Blackwood
  Sep-1834 – Apr-1845: Alexander Blackwood
  May-1845 – Oct-1879: John Blackwood
  Nov-1879 – 1912: William Blackwood
  1912 – 1942: George William Blackwood
  1942 – 1948: James Hugh Blackwood
  1948 – 1976: George Douglas Blackwood
  1976 – 1979: David Fletcher
  1980: Michael Blackwood

Formats

  standard (unillustrated)

Frequency

  monthly (quarterly for last few issues)

Related Sites

  www.qmu.ac.uk/mcs/mcc/Blackwoods/

Sources

  BritLit2, BritLit4, AgeStory

The Blade

Issues & Index Sources:  1847 – 1924
Publishers:   Toledo, Ohio
Editors:   "Petroleum V. Nasby"
Frequency:   weekly

Blade and Ledger

Formed from the merger of The Saturday Blade and The Chicago Ledger.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1925 – 1937: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   W.D. Boyce Publishing Company, Chicago
Formats:   tabloid
Frequency:   monthly

Blast..Review of the Great English Vortex

Total Issues: 2

A little magazine, short-lived but a world-shaker; published fiction by Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1914 – Jul-1915: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
Publishers:   John Lane, The Bodley Head, London
Editors:   Wyndham Lewis
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   BritLit4

Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories

Total Issues: 5

A short-lived little magazine that included stories by Ed Lacy and Walter Carlos Williams.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep/Oct-1933 – Oct/Nov-1934
Publishers:   New York
Frequency:   bimonthly


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