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Magazine Issues

The Badminton Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 330+3=333

Primarily a sports magazine, but it published a not inconsiderable amount of fiction, and initiated at least two significant series: the "Don Q" stories by Kate & Hesketh Prichard, and the "Experiences of an Irish R.M." stories by Edith Somerville & Martin Ross (both late 1890s).

Publishers

  1895 – 1900: Longmans, Green
  1900 – 1902: Heinemann
  Jan-1903 – Jun-1903: The 1900 Publishing Syndicate
  1903 – 1911: Sphere & Tatler
  1911 – 1916: Hulton
  Jul-1916 – Oct-1916: John E. Chandler
  1916 – 1921: H. Reiach for Badminton Magazine
  1921 – 1923: United Newspapers
  1927: Gale & Polden, Ltd.

Editors

Alfred Edward Thomas Watson; E.H.D. Sewell (Jun-1927 - Jul-1927); A.C. MacLaren (Aug-1927)

Formats

standard, illustrated

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: The Age of the Storytellers

Online Sources

Online Books

The Baffler

Country: US
Total Issues: 28 (as at Aug-2015)

Calls itself the American Mercury of the 90s. Publishes writings challenging the mainstream political, cultural and social climate. Prefers essays to fiction and loves works on business culture. Circulation about 20,000.

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 1988 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Website:   www.thebaffler.com
Publishers:   The Baffler, P.O. Box 378293, Chicago, IL 60637 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Thomas Frank (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   intended as quarterly but seldom more than one or two a year
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

Baffling Detective Fact Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers:   Baffling Mysteries, Inc., 404 N. Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, IL
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

Baffling Detective Mysteries

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Short-lived sensationalist crime fiction magazine, superseded by the true crime magazine Baffling Detective Fact Cases.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1943 – Jul-1943:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Baffling Mysteries, Inc., NY
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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Baffling Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 19 (to Apr-2025)

A quarterly online magazine of flash fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-2020 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after Apr-2025)

Website:   www.bafflingmag.com
Publishers:   Neon Hemlock Press
Editors:   Craig L. Gidney & Dave Ring
Frequency:   quarterly



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Bahamut

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

A biannual journal of the progressive fringe in transnational literature.

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 2015:

Science Fiction Index

Website:   www.bahamutjournal.com
Publishers:   Underland Press
Editors:   Rima Abunasser & Darin Bradley


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Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes

Country: UK
Total Issues: 796

A sports magazine that published a considerable amount of fiction, particularly in the Victorian era, including Arthur Griffths' "The Chances of the Game" series in 1899.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1860 – Jun-1926:

Baily's Magazine: An Index and Bibliography

Publishers:   Baily Bros.
Frequency:   monthly
Online Sources:   Online Books

Bairns Magazine

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1914 – ?

#incorporated into Books for the Bairns

Publishers

Stead's Publishing House

Frequency

monthly

Baker Street Miscellanea

Country: US
Total Issues: 76

Aherlock Holmes fanzine that featured some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1975 – 1993:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Editors: Donald K. Pollock

Bakka Magazine

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 6

A combination magazine/catalogue which contained articles on mystery, science fiction and fantasy, along with the occasional fiction. The 7th issue was described as a special "mystery and suspense" issue and was subtitled "Black Box", which has led some authorities to list it as a separate magazine called Black Box Mystery Magazine but this name was never used.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1975 – Fall 1977:

FictionMags Index

Publishers:   Bakka Book Stores, Toronto
Editors:   Kathleen Kuklinski
Formats:   large format (11" x 8.5")
Prices:   $1.50 in Fall 1977
Pagecounts:   80pp in Fall 1977
Frequency:   planned as quarterly.
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

Balik

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1976 – Feb-1977:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Simba Reproductions; Hurst, TX
Editors:   Clifford W. Bird
Formats:   quarto


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Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 462?

The first all-fiction monthly ever published in the US; circulation reached 100,000 by 1857.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1855 – May-1863:

FictionMags Index

Jun-1863 – Dec-1865, as The Dollar Monthly Magazine:

FictionMags Index

Jan-1866 – Jun-1893, as Ballou's Monthly Magazine:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: all issues after Dec-1881)

Publishers

Maturin Murray Ballou, Boston

Formats

quarto

Prices

10c (in 1855)

Pagecounts

46pp (in 1855); 100pp (later)

Frequency

monthly

Online Sources

Online Books

Ballou's Monthly Magazine

see under Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine

Ballou's Pictorial

see under Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion

Ballyhoo

Country: US
Total Issues: 86+6+2? = 94?

A humor magazine published by Dell. The fourth issue of the second series, Fall 1953, was SF-oriented, but none of the text features are substantial enough to warrant indexing, although a couple were reprinted in Science Fiction Digest. An Australian edition of this issue is also known to exist.