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The Champion Journal for Boys

Total Issues: 147

Issues & Index Sources

  8-Sep-1877 – 24-Jul-1880

#merges with The Boys' World

Publishers

  Ritchie & Co.
  Useful Literature Society

Formats

  large tabloid (folio)

Prices

  1d

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

Champion Library [1885]

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  1885
Publishers:   Charles Fox
Frequency:   monthly

Champion Library [1929]

Total Issues: 274

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1929 – Jun-1940
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   2 per month)

Champion Series

Total Issues: 10

The earliest recognisable 'library' series traced. "The stories were like the stories for boys at that time, very bloodthirsty." (W.O.G. Lofts)

Issues & Index Sources:  1880
Publishers:    (none given)
Prices:   3d

Champion Sports

Total Issues: 13

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1937 – May-1939: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Periodical House (A.A.Wyn)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly (with 1 gap)
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt
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The Chap-Book

Attracted contributions from Henry James, Max Beerbohm, W.E. Henley, H.G. Wells, and set the tone for US little magazines.

Merged into The Dial.

Issues & Index Sources:  15-May-1894 – 1-Jul-1898: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970 (FicMags: sample issue only)
Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Stone & Kimball, Chicago
Editors:   Herbert Stuart Stone
Formats:   slim digest
Prices:   5c
Frequency:   semi-monthly

Chapman

Noted as Scotland's leading literary magazine; mostly non-fiction but does publish a short story or two.

Issues & Index Sources:  1970 – present: Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines (1974 - 1992 only)
Publishers:   Joy M. Hendry, Edinburgh
Website:   www.chapman-pub.co.uk
Editors:   Joy M. Hendry
Frequency:   quarterly

Chapman's Magazine of Fiction

Total Issues: 42+50=92

An all-fiction magazine. Authors include Bret Harte, Violet Hunt ("The Story of a Ghost" Xmas 95), Arthur Machen ("The Red Hand" Xmas 95), Frank R. Stockton, Eden Phillpotts, F. Frankfort Moore, Ernest Bramah (the "Kai Lung" series), R. Andom, etc.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1895 – Oct-1898: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
  Nov-1898 – Dec-1902, as Crampton's Magazine: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags sample issue only)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  May-1895 – Oct-1898: Chapman & Hall, London
  Nov-1898 – Sep-1900: New Century Press, London
  Dec-1901 – Dec-1902: Anthony Treherne

Editors

  May-1895 – Sep-1900?: Oswald Crawfurd
  Oct-1900 – Nov-1901: George H. Perris
  Dec-1901 – Dec-1902: Harold Tremayne

Formats

  standard, unillustrated, on quality coated stock

Pagecounts

  May-1895 – Oct-1898: 112pp (Xmas issue 148pp)
  Nov-1898 – Dec-1902: 92pp - 120pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory

The Charing Cross Magazine

Total Issues: 8

The Charing Cross Magazine was a popular, illustrated magazine running a bit of everything. The magazine promoted itself as bright and healthy, decrying the "morbid sentiment" of recent years.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1900 – Aug-1900: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
Publishers:   The New Century Press.
Editors:   Not identified, but possibly Edwin Oliver.
Formats:   Standard
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   118/120 pages, dropped to 96 in Jun-1900 and 80 in Jul-1900.
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AgeStory

The Chariton Review

Authors include Raymond Carver, Fred Chappell, Jack Cady. Circulation about 700.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1975 – present?
Publishers:   Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 63501 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Jim Barnes (in 2000 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   100pp
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine

Total Issues: 4

A short-lived attempt to revive the popular Hawaiian sleuth created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1925.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1973 – Aug-1974: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Renown Books, Los Angeles [Leo Margulies]
Editors:   Cylvia Kleinman
Formats:   digest
Prices:   75c
Pagecounts:   128/160pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   CookMDE
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The Charm [1852]

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources:  30-Apr-1852 – 31-Mar-1853
Publishers:   Adey & Co.
Frequency:   monthly

Charm [1925]

Total Issues: 57

This may possibly be considered an adult publication. Probably became Modern Weekly.

Issues & Index Sources:  14-Mar-1925 – 10-Apr-1926: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Formats:   6.5" x 9"
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly

Charm [1941]

A young woman's slick magazine, somewhat similar to the same publisher's Mademoiselle. Authors of fiction include Henry Kuttner ("Housing Problem," Oct. 1944), Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, etc; started life as Your Charm but soon converted to Charm, buying the title from Bamberger's Department Store in-house journal; succeeded Picture Play.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1941 – ?
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Editors:   Muriel Babcock, Elizabeth Adams, Frances Harrington
Formats:   big slick
Frequency:   monthly

Charm Story Magazine

Total Issues: 2?

Probably continued from Nickel Western.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1933 – Jan-1934: Fictionmags Website (Missing: Jan-1934)
Publishers:   Nickel Publications Inc.
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

The Chartist Circular

Total Issues: 146

A four-page tri-column weekly published in Glasgow from 1839 - 1842. Most of the contents are non-fiction and fairly interesting, if repetitive, but each issue contained a fair amount of anecdotal filler, and every so often a serialized story makes an appearance; nearly always the last page had a verse or two on it.

Issues & Index Sources:  28-Sep-1839 – 9-Jul-1842: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Universal Suffrage Central Committee for Scotland
Editors:   William Thomson
Prices:   ½d
Frequency:   weekly


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