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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

Genesis

Total Issues: 458 (as at Sep-2010)

Genesis which began publication in 1973, is a men's pornographic magazine which exclusively features female stars of the adult film industry. Billing itself as "The Home of Porn's Hottest Stars", Genesis features pictorials, exclusive columns by adult film stars, interviews, feature articles, movie reviews, news and the occasional piece of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1973 – present
Related Sites:   Wikipedia (magazine)
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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 issues only)
Publishers:   Bruce-Royal Publishing
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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
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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

  British Literary Magazines Vol. 1

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

  O. Henry Awards Website (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
Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Glen-Kel, imprint of Fiction House
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   probably planned as monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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George Bruce's Air Novels

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  1931: Fictionmags Website
Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Fiction House
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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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)
Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Adventure House
Editors:   B. Jones
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   Monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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George Bruce's Sky Fighters

Total Issues: 1

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

Issues & Index Sources:  1932: Adventure Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: all issues)
Publishers:   Langley House
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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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
Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Adventure House
Editors:   B. Jones
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   Monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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George Bruce's Squadron (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of George Bruce's Squadron.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1934: Adventure Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: all issues)
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Pulpster #11, 2001
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George Cruikshank's Omnibus

Total Issues: 9

Authors include William M. Thackeray, Frederick Marryat. Cruikshank claimed the idea for Punch was taken from this magazine. He made two other attempts at a monthly humorous magazine: George Cruikshank's Table-Book (Jan-1845 - Dec-1845) and George Cruikshank's Magazine (Jan-1854 - Feb-1854).

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1841 – Jan-1842
Editors:   Laman Blanchard
Frequency:   monthly


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