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The Idler [2000]

Subtitled "The Magazine for Those Who Live to Loaf", containing a handful of stories in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  199? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Website:   www.idler.co.uk
Editors:   Hodgkinson, Tom
Email Address:   theidlers@idler.co.uk
Formats:   trade paperback
Prices:   £10.00
Pagecounts:   256pp
Frequency:   quarterly

If

Total Issues: 175+1=176

Subtitled "Worlds of Science Fiction" when it started, the "Worlds of" part came and went during the Fifties, often being placed on the cover in a manner that allowed one to misread the full title as "Worlds of If". Robert Guinn seems to have been a bit uncertain of the exact title after he bought it in 1959. The title is given in a variety of ways in the indicia, annual statements of ownership, etc.; it is worth noting, however, that Guinn never thought it was "Worlds of If".

Universal seems to have also been confused about the magazine's title for a while; they finally settled on "Worlds of If" in 1972.

The last issue was a revival as a semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  Mar-1952 – Nov/Dec-1974: Miller/Contento
  Fall 1986: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Mar-1952 – Feb-1959: Quinn Publishing, N.Y.
  Jul-1959 – May-1963: Digest Productions (a subsidiary of Galaxy Publishing)
  Jul-1963 – May-1969: Galaxy Publishing
  Jul-1969 – Nov/Dec-1974: Universal Publishing
  Fall 1986: STF Corporation, Hicksville, N.Y.

Editors

  Mar-1952 – Sep-1952: Paul W. Fairman
  May-1953 – Mar-1954: Larry Shaw
  May-1954 – Apr-1958: James Quinn
  Oct-1958 – Feb-1959: Damon Knight
  Jul-1959 – Sep-1961: Horace L. Gold
  Nov-1961 – May-1969: Frederik Pohl
  Jul-1969 – Jan/Feb-1974: Ejler Jakobsson
  Mar/Apr-1974 – Nov/Dec-1974: James Baen
  Fall 1986: Clifford Hong

Formats

  digest

Pagecounts

  average 160pp

Frequency

  mostly bi-monthly, but monthly Oct-1964 - May-1969

Related Sites

  Wikipedia (magazine)

Sources

  UltGuide
   
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If (UK)

Total Issues: 15+18+10+9+15=67

British reprint edition of If.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1953 – Jan-1955: Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
  #1, 1959 – #18, 1962
  #100, 1967 – #109, 1967
  Nov-1969 – Aug/Sep-1970
  May/Jun-1972 – Sep/Oct-1974
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Illinois Monthly Magazine

see under The Western Monthly Magazine (1830)

Illumen

Illumen is a print magazine of speculative poetry co-edited by Tyree Campbell and Erin Donahoe. It is published biannually by Sam's Dot Publishing, on 1 April and 1 October, in chapbook format. It contains speculative poetry, illustrations, articles, and reviews.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   Sam's Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, IA
Website:   samsdotpublishing.com/illumen/cover.htm
Editors:   Tyree Campbell & Erin Donahoe
Frequency:   twice-yearly

The Illuminated Magazine

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1843 – Nov-1845

Publishers

  Ebenezer Landells

Editors

  May-1843 – Apr-1845: Douglas Jerrold
  May-1845 – Nov-1845: W.J. Linton

Frequency

  monthly

Illustrated

Started as Weekly Illustrated, possibly without any fiction, but then merged with Passing Show to form Illustrated, which did publish fiction. In 1958 incorporated into John Bull.

Issues & Index Sources

  7-Jul-1934 – 25-Feb-1939, as Weekly Illustrated
  4-Mar-1939 – 4-Oct-1958, as Illustrated: Fictionmags Website (incomplete)

#merges with John Bull

Publishers

  Odham's

Frequency

  weekly

Illustrated Adventure Trails

see under The Danger Trail

Illustrated American

A kind of large-format weekly news-magazine with pictures, competing with Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Weekly, occasionally ran fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  22-Feb-1890 – 1900
Prices:   25c

The Illustrated Ape

"Features 100% creative fiction, pictures, poetry, pop and never, ever, reviews."

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   The Illustrated Ape, P.O. Box 16329, London E17 4FD

Illustrated Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1954 – ?
Publishers:   Factual Publications Inc., 471 Park Ave., New York, NY, and 171 Park Ave., New York, NY
Frequency:   bimonthly

The Illustrated Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 33+36=69

Launched in 1928, Illustrated Detective Magazine was a smooth, bright-coloured, slick-papered publication that was sold exclusively in Woolworth's and was aimed mainly at female customers. After 33 (mainly) monthly issues the title was changed to the rather more bland Mystery, as which it lasted for a further three years.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1929 – Sep-1932: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Oct-1932 – Sep-1935, as Mystery: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Tower Magazines, N.Y.

Editors

  1933 – 1934: Hugh Weir

Formats

  Dec-1929 – Dec-1934: large format slick
  Jan-1925 – Sep-1935: even larger (10.6" x 13.5")

Pagecounts

  Dec-1929 – Dec-1934: 138pp
  Jan-1925 – Sep-1935: 88pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Illustrated Dublin Journal

Ran much fiction, mostly anonymous, but including stories by R.D. Joyce.

Issues & Index Sources:  1861 – 1862
Publishers:   Duffy, Dublin
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Illustrated Family Novelist

Total Issues: 1007

Issues & Index Sources:  1878 – 1897: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   T. H. Roberts, London
Prices:   1d
Frequency:   weekly

Illustrated Juvenile Miscellany

Becomes (or Incorporated into?): Playmate

Issues & Index Sources:  1847 – 1848
Frequency:   monthly

The Illustrated London News

Total Issues: 7150+

Initially founded for news and current affairs, it began to run fiction in the early 1880s, mostly serials, to rival The Graphic. Authors include Walter Besant, Hall Caine, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad. Frank Leslie was one of the early engravers on ILN and took the magazine concept to the US in 1848. Circulation peaked at about 300,000 in 1860s; by 1970s was around 50,000.

An American edition was published from 1900 to 1934 at least, using a different volume numbering system and different pagination, but seems to have published the same articles that appeared in the London edition about two weeks later. For instance, a photo essay by Julian A. Dimock ("The Wild Excitement of Fising for the Saw-Fish") that appeared in the London edition on August 24, 1908, in volume 133, pp. 268-269) appeared in the New York edition on September 5, 1908, in volume. 43, pp. 372-373.

Issues & Index Sources

  14-May-1842 – present: Indexes to Fiction: The Illustrated London News and the Graphic (IdxILN fiction to 1901 only, FicMags sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  1842: Joseph Clayton
  1843 – 1857: William Little
  1858 – 1883: George C. Leighton
  1884 – 1905: Ingram Brothers
  1905 – 1961: Illustrated London News & Sketch
  1961 – 1985: Thompson Organisation
  1985 – present: Illustrated London News Group

Website

  www.ilng.co.uk/

Editors

  1842 – 1846: F.W.N. Bayley
  1846 – 1852: John Timbs
  1852 – 1859: Charles Mackay
  1859 – 1890: John Lash
  1891 – 1900: Clement Shorter
  1900 – 1963: Bruce Ingram
  1963 – 1965: Hugh Ingram
  1965 – 1970: Tim Green
  1967 – 1970: John Kisch
  1970 – 1994: James Bishop
  1995 – present: Mark Palmer

Formats

  14-May-1842 – 1970: folio (14" x 10"), heavily illustrated
  1971 – present: tabloid (12" x 9")

Prices

  6d

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly; monthly from May-1971

Related Sites

  Spartacus Educational

Sources

  AgeStory

The Illustrated Love Magazine

Distributed only through the Woolworth's stores.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1929? – 1934?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  1935? – ?, as Serenade

Publishers

  Tower Magazines, N.Y.

Formats

  large format slick

Frequency

  monthly
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Illustrated Novelets

see under North-West Romances

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