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Black Flames

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1946 – ?
Publishers:   Los Angeles
Editors:   Jim Daugherty
Pagecounts:   22pp

Black Gate

Total Issues: 15

"Black Gate is a quarterly magazine of epic fantasy fiction. It publishes news, reviews, interviews, and original short stories from the best names in adventure fantasy. Black Gate covers virtually every aspect of modern fantasy -- books, movies, comics, adventure gaming, role playing games, and much more."

Went online after #15.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 2001 – Spring 2011: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   New Epoch Press, 815 Oak Street, St. Charles, IL 60174
Website:   www.blackgate.com
Editors:   John O'Neill
Email Address:   submissions@blackgate.com
Prices:   $7.99
Pagecounts:   240pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia
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Black Hole

University fanzine that published some fiction by Brian Stableford.

Issues & Index Sources:  1974? – 1993?
Publishers:   Leeds University

Black Hood Detective

see under Crack Detective (and Mystery) (Stories)

Black Ink Horror

Total Issues: 10 (as at Nov-2012)

Digest-sized, black and white magazine of horror fiction and art with a classical aesthetic.

Issues & Index Sources:  #0, 2006 – present: Miller/Contento (Missing: any after #7)
Publishers:   Sideshow Press
Website:   sideshowpressonline.com
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $7.50
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The Black Lily

Total Issues: 10?

Side stapled fanzine featuring stories and poems on medieval fantasy.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1990s: Miller/Contento (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Southern Goblin Productions, Sarasota, Florida
Editors:   Vincent Kuklewski

Black Lite

Total Issues: 4

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1976 – Jan-1978: Miller/Contento
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Black Lotus

Total Issues: 5

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

Issues & Index Sources:  1992 – 1996: Miller/Contento (Missing: #1, #2, #3)
Publishers:   Pentagram Publications, 11410 NE 124 Street, PMB 270, Kirkland, WA 98034
Editors:   John M. Navroth
 
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Black Magic

Pictorial girlie magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  1964 – ?

Black Mask [1920]

Total Issues: 340

Black Mask started life fairly innocuously as a general pulp running all types of fiction from adventure to romance to westerns. However, it was the advent of Joseph T. Shaw as editor in November 1926 that saw Black Mask transformed into what is generally regarded as the finest detective pulp magazine ever published. Even though Shaw was fired in 1936, the magazine continued with a consistently high standard into the early 1950s, reaching a total of 340 issues.

See also A Comprehensive Index to Black Mask, 1920-1951 by E.R. Hagemann (Popular Press, 1982).

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1920 – Apr-1927, as The Black Mask: Crime Fiction Index
  May-1927 – Jul-1950, as Black Mask [1920]: Crime Fiction Index
  Sep-1950 – May-1951, as Black Mask Detective: Crime Fiction Index
  Jul-1951, as Black Mask Detective Magazine: Crime Fiction Index

#merges with Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

Publishers

  Pro-Distributors, N.Y. until Apr-1940; Popular Publications from Jun-1940

Editors

  Apr-1920 – Sep-1922: F.M. Osborne
  Oct-1922 – 15-Mar-1924: George W. Sutton, Jr.
  Apr-1924 – Oct-1926: Philip C. Cody
  Nov-1926 – Nov-1936: Joseph T. Shaw
  Dec-1936 – Apr-1940: Fanny Ellsworth
  Jun-1940 – Nov-1948: Ken White
  Dec-1948 – Jul-1951: none listed

Formats

  standard pulp

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  Apr-1920 – Jan-1923: monthly
  Feb-1923 – 15-Apr-1924: twice monthly
  May-1924 – Mar-1943: monthly
  May-1943 – Jul-1951: bi-monthly

Related Sites

  www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/pulpcrime/blackmask/

Sources

  The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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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 (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Popular Publications Canada
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Pulpster #11, 2001
 
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Black Mask (Detective) (UK)

Total Issues: 206+120=326

British reprint edition of Black Mask. There were two distinct series. The first series ran for 206 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 (incomplete)
  Nov-1939 – Nov-1953: Crime Fiction Index (incomplete)

Publishers

  Atlas Publishing and Distributing Ltd.

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  The Age of the Storytellers
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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: Crime Fiction Index
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 Moon

A professional looking local news stand magazine featuring horror fiction, articles, reviews etc.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1990s
Publishers:   Black Moon Publishing, Freehold, New Jersey
Editors:   Louis Sorrentino
Pagecounts:   98pp

Black October Magazine

Total Issues: 6

The magazine of gothic and psychological horror, including fiction, poetry, artwork, reviews, essays, and more. A seventh issue was announced but appears not to have been published.

Issues & Index Sources:  v1 #1, 1996 – Oct-2004: Miller/Contento
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Black Oracle

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


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