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Four Star Love Magazine

Total Issues: 4?

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1936 – Aug-1937: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Popular Publications
Editors:   Janie Littell
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Four Star Mystery

Total Issues: 1

The Jun-1942 issue is Vol. 1 No. 7. Earlier issues may have had a different title.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1942: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Four Star Fiction Group
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   UltGuide
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Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review

A national literary journal of the graduate Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State Univeristy, dedicated to innovative, creative literary work. First two volumes called The SFSU Review.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1994 – present
Publishers:   The Creative Writing Dept., San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132-1722 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   mercury.sfsu.edu/~hills/ (or userwww.sfsu.edu/~hills/)
Editors:   rotating editorship
Email Address:   hills@sfsu.edu
Formats:   review
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The 14th Alternative

Total Issues: 1

Subtitled "The Midwest Journal of Speculative Fiction".

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1990: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Gate VI Publishing Company; Elmhurst, IL
Prices:   $3.50

F.P. Detective Stories

Total Issues: 1

Reprinted from Popular Publications magazines such as F.B.I. Detective Stories, Ten Detective Aces and 15 Story Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1951: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Feature Productions, New Zealand
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The Fractal

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1993 – #4, 1996: Miller/Contento (Missing: any after #4)
Publishers:   Fractal Ink Press, Fairfax, VA

Frank

Total Issues: 18 (to Jan-2002)

Eclectic, avant garde magazine encourages international fiction. Has published Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, Paul Bowles, Raymond Carver. Circulation 4,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1983 – present
Publishers:   David Applefield, Montreuil, France
Website:   www.readfrank.com/
Editors:   David Applefield
Formats:   digest
Pagecounts:   224pp
Frequency:   twice yearly

Frank Clune's Adventure Magazine

Total Issues: 8

Started off publishing fiction almost exclusively, but by the fourth issue was concentrating on true stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1947 – 1949?: Fictionmags Website (Missing: #5, #6, #7, #8)
Publishers:   Allied Authors and Artists, Box 3925 G.P.O., Sydney
Editors:   Frank Clune
Prices:   1/-
Frequency:   monthly

Frank Leslie's Boys' and Girls' Weekly

Total Issues: 905

Reprinted many UK stories without credit, though also ran some new Jack Harkaway stories by Bracebridge Hemyng. Also ran some prototype comic strips. Authors inc. Edward S. Ellis, G. Manville Fenn, W.H.G. Kingston, Mayne Reid.

Issues & Index Sources:  13-Oct-1866 – 9-Feb-1884
Publishers:   Frank Leslie
Formats:   tabloid (became larger tabloid from #539)
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly
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Frank Leslie's Boys of America

see under Boys of America

Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner.

Total Issues: 1018

Issues & Index Sources:  3-Jun-1865 – 29-Nov-1884
Publishers:   Mrs Frank Leslie
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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

Ran much serial fiction alongside news and features. Originally published many UK reprints, e.g. Wilkie Collins, Walter Besant, Anthony Trollope, Mary Braddon; others include Edward S. Ellis, Harriet Prescott Spofford, John Esten Cooke; various minor retitles but chiefly Leslie's (Illustrated) Weekly from 1894

Issues & Index Sources

  15-Dec-1855 – 24-Jun-1922

Publishers

  1855 – 1879: Frank Leslie
  1880 – 1889: Mrs Frank Leslie
  1889 – 1898: Judge Publishing
  1898 – 1922: Leslie-Judge Co.

Editors

  1855 – 1880: Frank Leslie
  1880 – 1889: Mrs Frank Leslie
  1889 – 1922: John A. Schleicher

Frequency

  weekly

Frank Leslie's Ladies' Journal

Took over from Once a Week, mostly a fashion magazine but ran increasingly more fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  18-Nov-1871 – 8-Oct-1881
Publishers:   Frank Leslie
Editors:   Miriam Squier (Mrs Frank Leslie)
Frequency:   weekly

Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine

see under Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine

Frank Leslie's Monthly

see under Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine

Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine

Began as supplement to Frank Leslie's Gazette of Fashion till Jun-1866; ran many serials from UK magazines by Ouida, Wilkie Collins, Mrs Henry Wood and Miss Braddon ('Lady Audley's Secret', 1862)

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1857 – 1860
  1860 – 1863, as Frank Leslie's Monthly: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  1863 – Dec-1882, as Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine

Publishers

  Frank Leslie

Editors

  Frank Leslie, 1857 - 1863; Miriam Squier, 1863 - 1882.

Frequency

  monthly

Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly

Published Joaquin Miller, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Brander Matthews, Stephen Crane, Frank R. Stockton, Ellis Parker Butler ("Pigs is Pigs" 1905).

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1876 – 1904: The Standard Index of Short Stories (from Jan-1900 only)
  1904 – Aug-1905, as Leslie's Magazine: The Standard Index of Short Stories
  Sep-1905 – May-1906, as American Illustrated Magazine

#superseded by The American Magazine

Publishers

  Jan-1876 – Jul-1878: Frank Leslie
  Aug-1878 – Aug-1905: Frank Leslie Publishing
  Sep-1905 – May-1906: Colver Publishing

Editors

  1876 – 1880: Frank Leslie
  1880 – 1899: Mrs Frank Leslie
  1899 – 1906: Ellery Sedgwick

Prices

  $2.50 at outset, radically redesigned in 1898 as a 10c monthly

Frequency

  monthly

Frank Manley's Weekly

Total Issues: 32

School and sports stories about Frank Manley and his friends in imitation of the Frank Merriwell stories published by Street & Smith.

Issues & Index Sources:  8-Sep-1905 – 13-Apr-1906
Publishers:   Frank Tousey
Formats:   8" x 11"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly

Frank Reade Library

Total Issues: 191

A dime novel series devoted entirely to SF. Issued in the small tabloid "nickel library" format of the late 1800's, with black and white covers.

Issues & Index Sources:  24-Sep-1892 – 5-Aug-1898: Miller/Contento (sf content only)
Publishers:   Frank Tousey
Formats:   small tabloid
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   16pp (some 24pp & some 32pp)
Frequency:   weekly; twice monthly from #152


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