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Front & Centre

Total Issues: 8 (to Apr-2004)

Underground literary magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: Miller/Contento (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Black Bile Press, 136-A Billings Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1H 5K9, CANADA
Website:   www.ardentdreams.com/bbp/fc/index.html
Editors:   Matthew Firth
Email Address:   firth@istar.ca
Prices:   $6

The Frontier [1920]

A magazine of the Northwest. Not to be confused with the pulp magazine The Frontier; first issue called Montanan; merged with The Midland in 1933.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1920 – Summer 1939: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
Publishers:   State University of Montana at Missoula
Editors:   Harold G. Merriam (in 1933)
Prices:   40c (in 1933)
Pagecounts:   114pp (in 1933)

The Frontier [1924]

Total Issues: 160

Title in later years sometimes given as "Frontier Stories of Pioneer Days".

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1924 – Nov-1926: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Dec-1926 – Winter 1953, as Frontier Stories: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Oct-1924 – Apr-1929: Doubleday
  Jun-1929 – Winter 1953: Fiction House

Editors

  Jack O'Sullivan (by 1953)

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Frontier Times

Started as a monthly historical pulp.

Issues & Index Sources

  1923 – Nov-1985

Publishers

  1923 – 1957: J. Marvin Hunter
  1957 – 1985: Joe Small

Sources

  MansWorld

The Frontier (UK)

Total Issues: 33+19+35+12=99

Began life as a British reprint edition of the Doubleday pulp The Frontier, later Frontier Stories, but acquired its own identity in Aug-1929 when it was retitled Empire Frontier and reprinted stories from a wide variety of sources. In Jul-1932 it merged with All Star under the title of All Star Western and Empire Frontier Magazine.

When the magazine folded in Jun-1933 its slot was used to launch All Star Detective Stories (UK).

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1925 – Dec-1927: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Jan-1928 – Jul-1929, as Frontier Stories
  Aug-1929 – Jun-1932, as Empire Frontier: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags has sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website
  Jul-1932 – Jun-1933, as All Star Western and Frontier Magazine: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags has sample issue only)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  The World's Work, Kingswood, Surrey

Formats

  standard pulp (large pulp from May-1926 - Jan-1927)

Prices

  1/-

Pagecounts

  Apr-1925 – Apr-1926: 176pp
  May-1926 – Jan-1927: 96pp
  Feb-1927 – Feb-1933: 176pp - 192pp
  Mar-1933 – Jun-1933: 128pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory
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Front Page Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources

  1937 – ?

Publishers

  in 1930s: Macfadden Publishing, Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, NJ
  early 1940s: Exposed Publishing Co. (possibly a division of Macfadden Publishing), 149 Madison Am., New York, NY
  in 1950s: Dell Publishing Company Inc., 261 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
  in 1960s: Detective Publications Inc., 750 Third Ave., New York, NY
  in 1980s: RGH Publishing Corp, 460 W 34th St., New York, NY

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  CookMDE
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Front Page Detective (UK)

True crime. British reprint edition of Front Page Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1945
Publishers:   Pan Press

Front Page Stories

Total Issues: 4

The Aug/Sep-1931 issue was an unpublished "ashcan" issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug/Sep-1931 – May-1932: Fictionmags Website (Missing: Aug/Sep-1931)
Publishers:   Headquarters Publishing (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Fruity

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   36pp

Fry's Magazine

 see under C.B. Fry's Magazine of Sports and Out-of-Door Life

FTL

Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1989 – Winter 1991: Miller/Contento

F20

Total Issues: 2

Small press fantasy fiction magazine, produced on behalf of The British Fantasy Society.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 2000 – #2, 2001: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Enigmatic Press
Editors:   L.H. Maynard, M.P.N. Sims & David J. Howe
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £6.99
Pagecounts:   116pp
Frequency:   annual
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Fugue

Listed as deceased in Dec-2002.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   Brink Hall 200, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1102 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.uidaho.edu/LS/Eng/Fugue/
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Full Unit Hookup

Total Issues: 9 (to Sep-2009)

Subtitled "A Magazine of Exceptional Literature"

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-2002 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Conical Hats Press, 622 West Cottom Avenue, New Albany, IN 47150-5011
Website:   members.aol.com/fullunithookup/index.html
Editors:   Mark Rudolph
Prices:   $5
 

Fun

Total Issues: 2089

A deliberate but cheap imitation of Punch. Although mostly non-fiction and illustrative it did run fiction, especially by Ambrose Bierce and W.S. Gilbert. Merges with Sketchy Bits in 1901.

Issues & Index Sources

  21-Sep-1861 – 10-Aug-1901

#merges with Sketchy Bits

Publishers

  Sep-1861 – May-1865: Charles Maclean
  May-1865 – Dec-1869: Edward Wylam
  Jan-1870 – Aug-1893: Dalziel Brothers
  Jan-1901 – Jul-1901: George Newnes

Editors

  1861 – 1865: Henry J. Byron
  1865 – 1874: Tom Hood
  1874 – 1878: Henry Sampson
  1878 – 1893: Charles Dalziel

Formats

  tabloid

Prices

  1d

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  BritLit3

Fun and Fiction [1911]

Total Issues: 124

Issues & Index Sources

  14-Oct-1911 – 21-Feb-1914

#becomes The Firefly

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  A. Donnelly Aitken; F.G. Cordwell (Managing Editor)

Prices

  1d

Frequency

  weekly

Fun and Fiction [1929]

Weekly movie magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  16-Feb-1929 – ?

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