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Magazine Issues

Blazing Western

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1947:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Trojan Publishing, NY
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Blighty (Parade)

see under Parade

Blimey

Small, thin, story-paper. The issue examined (Feb-1944) contained two stories, assorted cartoons (mainly saucy) and a very bad limerick.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1939 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Press Services Syndicate, 802 Africa House, Rissik, Johannesburg, South Africa
Editors:   Hank Margolies
Formats:   4.8" x 7.2"
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   24pp

Blonde on Blonde

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1988:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Jeff Troiano
Editors:   Jeff Troiano
Formats:   11.5" x 17"
Pagecounts:   20pp

Blood & Aphorisms

Innovative literary magazine of stories, poetry, reviews etc., and an annual fiction contest. See anthology Stories from Blood & Aphorisms by Timothy Paleczny (Gutter Press, 1993).

Issues & Index Sources: ? – present

Publishers:   Blood & Aphorisms, P.O. Box 702, Station P, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2Y4, Canada (in 2002)
Editors:   Dennis Block & Michelle Alfano
Formats:   large digest
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (not in 2000; in 2002)

Blood, Blade, and Thruster Magazine

Total Issues: 3

A print magazine that blends speculative fiction & satire. The third issues was only distributed (free) as a PDF file on the website.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-2006 – 2007

Website: www.bbtmagazine.com

Bloodhound Detective Story Magazine

Total Issues: 14

A reprint of the US Manhunt, though not issue-by-issue; ran new illustrations

Issues & Index Sources: May-1961 – Jun-1962:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   T.V. Boardman, London
Editors:   Tom Boardman
Formats:   digest
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly except last issue
Sources:   CookMDE



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Bloodlines

Small press horror magazine containing at least 1 story by D.F. Lewis.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1993

Blood Moon Rising

Total Issues: 32 (to Jul-2007)

"The magazine for all things horror." Includes a handful of stories in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: 2000? – present:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: #1, #2, #3)

Publishers:   Sapphire Publications
Website:   www.bloodmoonrising.com
Editors:   Al Vermette
Prices:   $5
Frequency:   bi-monthly

Blood Oranges

Total Issues: 1 (to Oct-2008)

A magazine of horror and fantasy with each issue "posting variations on a single theme (in our case the theme is a quote)".

On hiatus since March 2008.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-2007

Publishers:   Blood Oranges Zine, P.O. Box 5182, Covington, LA 70433
Website:   www.bloodorangeszine.com
Editors:   Lacey Jenkins & Anna Marie
Prices:   $3.00
Frequency:   irregular

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: 11

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1994 – 1998:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

1994 – 1996: Bambada Press, Melbourne, Australia
1997 – 1998: Implosion Publishing, 1921 E. Colonial Drive, 2nd Floor, Orlando, FL 32803

Website

www.chrisamasters.com/bloodsongs/bloodsongs.html

Editors

1994 – 1996: David G. Barnett
1997 – 1998: Cynthia Ariel Conlin



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Blossom

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Publishers: Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Blue Band Magazine

Total Issues: 1

This magazine may 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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