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Flying Stories

Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1928 – Jul/Aug-1930:	Pulp Magazine Index 4
	Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   New Metropolitan imprint of Macfadden Publications until Dec-1929; Good Story Magazines from Feb-1930.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   144pp
Frequency:   monthly to Dec-1929; monthly/bi-monthly thereafter
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Flynn's (Weekly Detective)

Total Issues: 88+55+50+704+6+20+6=929

Merged with Dime Detective in 1944 and then relaunched (briefly) in 1951.

Issues & Index Sources

20-Sep-1924 – 22-May-1926, as Flynn's:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

29-May-1926 – 11-Jun-1927, as Flynn's Weekly:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

18-Jun-1927 – 26-May-1928, as Flynn's Weekly Detective Fiction:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

2-Jun-1928 – 2-Aug-1941, as Detective Fiction Weekly:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

20-Aug-1941 – Jun-1942, as Detective Fiction:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Jul-1942 – Dec-1942, as Flynn's Detective:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Jan-1943 – Aug-1944, as Flynn's Detective Fiction:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

#merges with Dime Detective Magazine

Jan-1951 – Jul-1951, as Detective Fiction:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

20-Sep-1924 – Dec-1942: Red Star News Co (Frank A. Munsey Company)
Jan-1943 – Jul-1951: Popular Publications

Editors

  Howard V. Bloomfield
  Duncan Norton-Taylor
  Albert J. Gibney
  Henry McComas
  William Kostka
  Kendall Foster Crossen
  Alden H. Norton (in 1943 - 1944)

Formats

20-Sep-1924 – Aug-1944: standard pulp
Nov-1950 – Jul-1951: digest

Prices

10c

Pagecounts

usually 144pp

Frequency

  20-Sep-1924 – 2-Aug-1941: weekly
  20-Aug-1941 – 7-Mar-1942: fortnightly
  May-1942 – Aug-1944: monthly
  Jan-1951 – Jul-1951: monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Flynn's (Weekly Detective) (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Flynn's (Weekly) Detective. Typically the Canadian issues were direct reprint of the US issues (possibly delayed by a week or a month) but some also reprinted from other magazines such as Dime Detective.

Issues & Index Sources

in 1930s, as Detective Fiction Weekly (Canada):

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(sample issues only)

in 1940s, as Flynn's Detective Fiction (Canada):

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(sample issues only)

Publishers

in 1930s: The Red Star News Co.
in 1940s: Popular Publications Canada

Formats

standard pulp

Sources

Pulpster11


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Flytrap

Total Issues: 4 (to Sep-2005)

Literary slipstream magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-2003 – present:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Tropism Press, P.O. Box 13322, Berkeley, CA 94712-4222
Website:   www.tropismpress.com/flytrap.html
Editors:   Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt
Email Address:   timpratt@sff.net
Prices:   $4.00
Pagecounts:   44
Frequency:   bi-annual

Flyway

Open to anything. Publishes short fiction and extracts from novels. No payment. Circulation 1,000.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1995 – present

Publishers:   203 Ross Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 (in 1998 - 2000)
Editors:   Stephen Pett (in 1998 - 2000)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   thrice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (not in 2002)

FMN Handy Stories

Total Issues: 1021

Incorporates: Heartease Incorporated into: Handy Stories and Forget-Me-Not Novels

Issues & Index Sources

28-Jul-1906 – 9-Mar-1907

16-Mar-1907 – 13-Feb-1926, as Handy Stories

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Focus

Mentioned in Henry Steeger's article in Pulp Era #67.

Issues & Index Sources: 1938 – ?

Publishers: Popular Publications

Folio

Encourages new writers and established. Publishes about 6 stories and 30 poems per year. Circulation, 400.

Issues & Index Sources: 1984 – present

Publishers:   Literature Dept., The American University, Washington, DC 20016 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Cynthia Lollar (in 2000); Eve Rosenbaum (in 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   70pp
Frequency:   twice yearly (quarterly at outset?)
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Folks at Home

Total Issues: 27

Issues & Index Sources: 31-Oct-1896 – 29-Apr-1897

Publishers: James Henderson

The Follies

Total Issues: 10+3=13

Successor to Parisienne. Relatively little fiction from 1923 on; by April 1930 had been renamed Burten's Follies.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1921 – Apr-1922

May-1922 – Jul-1922, as Fascinating Fiction

1923 – ?, as Follies

Publishers

1923 – ?: Burten Publications

Frequency

monthly

Sources

UltGuide

Football Action

Total Issues: 23

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1939 – Fall 1953:

Index to Football Action and Football Stories

(Missing: 1st Fall 1943)

Publishers:   Fiction House
Editors:   Malcolm Reiss
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt



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Football Favourite

Total Issues: 448

Incorporates: Sports Fun from 2-Dec-1922 Entitled Football Favourite, 1-35; Football & Sports Favourite, 36-448(?or 447) Numbering (to 452) may continue on Boys' Football Favourite.

Issues & Index Sources

4-Sep-1920 – 30-Mar-1939

#becomes boysftblfav

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

Edward R. Home-Gall; Arthur Steffans

Pagecounts

24pp

Frequency

weekly

Football Novels

Issues & Index Sources: 1930

Publishers: Newnes
Frequency: monthly

Football Novels

see also under Aldine Football Novels

Football Pocket Library

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1947 – 1948:

Story Paper Index

(incomplete)

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan
Frequency: monthly

Football & Sports Favourite

see under Football Favourite

Football & Sports Library

Total Issues: 566

Contains a complete 60,000 word sports yarn.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1921 – Oct-1938

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Prices:   4d
Frequency:   3 per month (1st Friday of month)

Football Stories

Total Issues: 25

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1937 – Fall 1953:

Index to Football Action and Football Stories

Publishers:   Fiction House
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   mainly twice-yearly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt



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