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The Golden Book Magazine

Total Issues: 129

A reprint magazine, primarily of older material.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1925 – Sep-1935: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

#merges with Fiction Parade

Publishers

  Review of Reviews, NY

Editors

  Had editorial board plus guest celebrity editors for certain issues. Managing editor was Ralph Rockafellow in 1930/1931 and Mary Letha Elting in 1933.
  Editor in 1925 was Henry Wysham Lanier.

Formats

  Jan-1925 – 1931: small standard size (semi-slick in later issues but previously pulp)
  1931: large flat format

Prices

  25c

Pagecounts

  Jan-1925 – 1931: 128pp
  1931: 96pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  UltGuide
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Golden Book Magazine (UK)

Total Issues: 10

Essentially a British reprint edition of the American Golden Book, which was edited by Lanier. Like the US edition, the UK one also had an Editorial Advisory Board consisting of W. Somerset Maugham, Laurence Binyon, J.B. Priestley and A.E. Coppard, though it is unlikely that they did much, if anything, as the contents were almost all lifted entirely from near concurrent US issues. Reprinted works by Victor Hugo, Anthony Chekhov, James Stephens, O. Henry, Zane Grey, Alexander Dumas, Guy de Maupassant and others. It did not seem to be able to tap into the same market carved out by the British Argosy.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1927 – May/Jun-1928: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Odhams Press under imprint Golden Book Magazine.
Editors:   Hugh Walpole and Henry W. Lanier
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   144pp (unnumbered)
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AgeStory

Golden Book Magazine

Listed in "The Howell Magazines" by John Marim, a spoof article first published in Peon #26, Feb-1953. Supposedly merged with Musketeer in Feb-1931 to form Musketeer-Golden Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1890 – 1932 (spoof)
Publishers:   John F. Howell Publishing Company
Editors:   Bob J. Risley
Formats:   large pulp
Pagecounts:   476pp
Frequency:   monthly

Golden Childhood

Issues & Index Sources:  1875 – 1880
Publishers:   Ward Lock
Frequency:   monthly

Golden Cords

Subtitled "A magazine for young people of all ages".

Issues & Index Sources:  1889
Publishers:   (?), London

Golden Days

Total Issues: 419

Children's story-paper; still had circulation of 100,000 in 1894. Ran first story by Edward Stratemeyer ("Victor Horton's Idea", 2-Nov-1889 - 30-Nov-1889). Apparently only two complete sets are known - in the Library of Congress and Philadelphia Public Library. From Vol.20 on most contents were reprints.

Issues & Index Sources:  6-Mar-1880 – 11-May-1907: Bibliographic Listing: Golden Days
Publishers:   James Elverson, Philadelphia
Formats:   tabloid (11" x 14^12")
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Golden Door

Subtitled "A Magazine Anthology for Bookish Folk", published a selection of reprint articles and stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1939 – ?
Formats:   8½" by 5¾"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   96pp

The Golden Era

Story-paper mostly full of reprints; circulation 5,000

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1852 – 1893: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Golden Era Company, 712 Montgomery, San Francisco
Editors:   Harr Wagner
Frequency:   weekly

Golden Fleece

Total Issues: 9

Primarily a magazine of historical adventure but included some fantasy; see also "In Search of Golden Fleece" by Doug Ellis, Pulp Vault #8

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1938 – Jun-1939: Miller/Contento
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Publishers:   Sun Publications, Chicago
Editors:   A.J. Gontier & C.G. Williams
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Golden Gate Thrillers for Boys

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Marcus Harris & Lewis
Formats:   pocket library
Pagecounts:   36pp

Golden Gate Thrillers for Girls

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Marcus Harris & Lewis
Formats:   pocket library
Pagecounts:   36pp

The Golden Hind

Total Issues: 8

A review of art and literature with at least two or three stories per issue. Authors include L.A.G. Strong, Ethel Colburn Mayne ("The Shirt of Nessus" Oct-1923), Edith Sitwell, Phyllis Megroz, Herbert Farjeon. All of the fiction was highly creative and challenging.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1922 – Jul-1924
Publishers:   Chapman & Hall, London
Editors:   Clifford Bax & Austin O. Spare
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   BritLit4

Golden Hours [1888]

Total Issues: 870

Boys' story paper; authors inc. Horatio Alger, Weldon J. Cobb, W. Bert Foster, Prentiss Ingraham. Ran many reprints from UK and US sources.

Issues & Index Sources

  28-Jan-1888 – 1-Oct-1904
  Oct-1904 – 1911, as Golden Hours, the Monthly Family Magazine

Publishers

  Norman Munro

Editors

  Jacob Abarbanell & William C. Dunn

Formats

  slightly larger than tabloid

Prices

  5c

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  28-Jan-1888 – 1-Oct-1904: weekly
  Oct-1904 – 1911: monthly
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Golden Hours [1895]

Total Issues: 96

Issues & Index Sources:  30-Mar-1895 – 19-Jan-1897
Publishers:   Sully & Ford
Frequency:   weekly

Golden Hours [1972]

Total Issues: 31

Incorporates (?): Sleepytime Stories

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1972 – Dec-1972
Publishers:   Shelbourne; Williams
Frequency:   weekly?

Golden Hours

see also under Golden Stories

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