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Gem Detective

Total Issues: 1

Very little is known about this title which seems to be a one-shot pulp launched by H.C. Blackerby who also launched another one-shot detective pulp, Chief Detective, and a one-shot western pulp called Prize Western at the same time.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1946:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Atomic Action, N.Y. (H. C. Blackerby)
Editors:   Raymond W. Porter
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   planned as quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide


Issue Checklist

Gem Library

Total Issues: 48

Issues & Index Sources

16-Mar-1907 – 8-Feb-1908

#becomes Gem Library (New Series)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

Percy Griffith

Prices

½d except for double number 37 at 1d

Pagecounts

20pp

Frequency

weekly

Gem Library (New Series)

Total Issues: 1663

The first title in what was to become known as the Companion Papers group at A.P. which included the Gem's younger sibling, The Magnet Library. Contained complete school stories of 20,000 words and serials (65,000 words).

Incorporates: Nelson Lee Library from 19-Aug-1933 Further Reading: The Gem Index by Derek Adley & W.O.G. Lofts (Privately published, 1981).

Issues & Index Sources

15-Feb-1908 – 30-Dec-1939

#incorporated into The Triumph

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, Fleetway House

Editors

  1908 – 1911: Percy Griffith
  1911 – 1916: Herbert A. Hinton
  1916 – 1919: John Nix Pentelow
  1919 – 1921: Herbert A. Hinton
  1921 – 1936: C.M. Down
  1936 – 1940: Arthur Aldcroft [under C.M. Down]
  1908 – 1911: Herbert A. Hinton [Assistant Editor]
  1911 – 1914: C.M. Down [Assistant Editor]
  1914 – 1917: G.R. Samways [Assistant Editor]
  c. 1918 – 1920: Stanley Austin [Assistant Editor]
  1919 – 1921: G.R. Samways [Assistant Editor]
  c. 1921: Frederick K. Adams [Assistant Editor]
  in 1920s: Noel Wood-Smith [Assistant Editor]
  ?: Arthur Aldcroft [Assistant Editor]
  1933 – 1936: Reginald S. Taylor [Assistant Editor]
  1936 – 1939: R.C. Hewitt [Assistant Editor]

Formats

small tabloid

Prices

1d except double numbers 41, 93, 145, 197, 250, 302, 407, 458, 511 at 2d; 1½d from 529; 2d from 770 (Nov 1922).

Frequency

weekly (every Wednesday / Thursday)

Gen

Total Issues: 90

Magazine "published fortnightly for the three Services in the Middle-East and Persia-Iraq Commands" during the Second World War, containing several pieces of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 8-Feb-1942 – 28-Jul-1945:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   P.R. Publications, Cairo
Formats:   digest
Frequency:   fortnightly

Genre

Total Issues: 100 (to Jan-2002)

"Genre covers fashion, travel, and lifestyle issues for the affluent gay man. Genre is the first magazine to address the total gay man, highlighting the concerns and experiences that enrich the lives of our readers." Occasionally publishes original fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1993? – present

Website: www.genremagazine.com/
Frequency: monthly

Gent

Authors include Harlan Ellison, Gerald Kersh, Barry Malzberg, Charles Willeford, Joe Gores, Evan Hunter, John Novotny. Actually entitled The Gent in 1959 at least.

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1956 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Sep-1956 – ?: Excellent Publications, New York
in 1975: Dugent Publishing Corporation, 135 East 49th Street, NY

Editors

  Sep-1956 – 1961?: Bruce Elliot
  in 1962: Nat Lehrman
  in 1975: John Fox

Formats

slick

Frequency

bimonthly



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Gentleman

Issues & Index Sources: 1960 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Bruce-Royal Publishing

The Gentleman's Journal

Total Issues: 150

Very attractive production, subtitled "An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Information and Amusement".

Issues & Index Sources: 1-Nov-1869 – 12-Sep-1872

Publishers:   Harrison & Viles
Editors:   George Frederick Pardon; Thomas Frost
Formats:   large tabloid (folio)
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Gentleman's Journal, or the Monthly Miscellany

Total Issues: 31

The first British magazine to run recognisable fiction. Mayo calls it "a melange of letters, essays, occasional poems, informative articles, reviews of new books and plays, gossip, news, and enigmatical verse. The tales .. are mostly satirical adventure stories, amorous histories, or tales of intrigue and gallantry. Stories were anonymous and many were probably by Motteux himself.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1692 – Oct-1694

Publishers:   Peter Motteux
Editors:   Peter Motteux
Formats:   64pp
Frequency:   mostly monthly

Gentleman's Magazine

Although the grandfather of all English literary magazines, and still the longest-lived, it only ran fiction between 1868 and 1890 when there was an attempt to transform it into a middlebrow Victorian magazine. Authors include Joseph Hatton, R.E. Francillon, Helen Mathers, Eliza Lynn Linton.

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1731 – Sep-1907:

Index to Periodical Literature

(1868 - 1906 only)

Publishers

  1792 – 1856: Nichols & Nichols
  1856 – 1865: John Parker
  1865 – May-1868: Bradbury & Evans
  1868 – 1907: Chatto & Windus

Editors

  1731 – 1754: Edward Cave
  1754 – 1766: R. Cave
  1754 – 1792: D. Henry
  1778 – 1826: J. Nichols
  1826 – 1833: J.B. Nichols
  1834 – 1850: John Mitford
  1851 – 1856: J.G. Nichols
  1856 – 1865: John H. Parker
  1866 – 1867: Edward Walford
  1867 – 1874: Joseph Hatton
  1887 – 1905: Joseph Knight

Frequency

monthly

Sources

BritLit1

Gentlemen's Quarterly

From the stable that later produced Esquire and Coronet, a classy men's magazine which still publishes some fiction. A separate British edition was launched in 1988.

Issues & Index Sources

Christmas 1931 – Feb-1950, as Apparel Arts

Mar-1950 – Jun-1956, as Esquire's Apparel Arts

Jul-1956 – Spring 1958, as Apparel Arts

Spring 1958 – May-1983, as Gentlemen's Quarterly:

Short Story Index

(Missing: all before 1974 at least)

Jun-1983 – present, as GQ:

Short Story Index

Publishers

  Christmas 1931 – Feb-1950: Apparel Arts Publications
  Mar-1950 – May-1983: Esquire Inc.
  Jun-1983 – present: Conde Nast, 350 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Website

us.gq.com/

Editors

initially Arnold Gingrich?
in 2002: Walter Kirn

Formats

big slick

Frequency

initially quarterly; later monthly

Sources

OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

George Bruce's Aces

Total Issues: 1

Contains four stories all by George Bruce.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1931:

Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Glen-Kel, imprint of Fiction House
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   probably planned as monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

George Bruce's Air Novels

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: 1931:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Fiction House
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

George Bruce's Contact

Total Issues: 11

Merged with George Bruce's Squadron to form Squadron.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1933 – Jun-1934:

Pulp Magazine Index 1

(Missing: Jan-1934)

Publishers:   Adventure House
Editors:   B. Jones
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   Monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

George Bruce's Sky Fighters

Total Issues: 1

Title probably taken over by Standard Magazines, see Sky Fighters.

Issues & Index Sources: 1932

Publishers:   Langley House
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

George Bruce's Squadron

Total Issues: 11

Merged with George Bruce's Contact to form Squadron.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1933 – Jun-1934:

Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Adventure House
Editors:   B. Jones
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   Monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide