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Liberty [1924]

Total Issues: 1236

Launched as a direct competitor with The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. Authors included Achmed Abdullah, H. Bedford-Jones, Walter R. Brooks, Edgar Rice Burroughs ("Tarzan and the Lion Man" 1933/1934), Robert W. Chambers, James F. Dwyer, Paul Ernst, Floyd Gibbons ("The Red Napoleon" 1929), Murray Leinster, Edison Marshall, Sax Rohmer.

Issues & Index Sources

  10-May-1924 – Jul-1950: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1924 – 1931: McCormick-Patterson
  1931 – 1942: Bernarr Macfadden

Editors

  Fulton Oursler

Formats

  big slick

Prices

  5c

Frequency

  10-May-1924 – 25-Jan-1947: weekly
  1-Feb-1947 – Aug-1947: fortnightly
  Sep-1947 – Jul-1950: monthly
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Liberty [2000]

A Right Libertarian Magazine, filled mostly with political commentary which publishes several pieces of fiction per issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  199? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Liberty Foundation
Website:   www.libertyunbound.com
Editors:   R.W. Bradford
Formats:   8.5" x 11"
Prices:   $4.00

Liberty (Canada)

Canadian edition of Liberty. Became The New Liberty at some point in 1947, and then reverted to Liberty in the late 1950s.

Issues & Index Sources

  in 1930s

Publishers

  in 1930s: Bernarr Macfadden
  1947 – ?: Jack Kent Cooke, Liberty of Canada Ltd.
  in 1960s: Consolidated Press Division

Editors

  in 1930s: Fulton Oursler
  1947 – ?: C.J. Harris
  in 1960s: Frank Rasky

Formats

  big slick
   

Libido

Total Issues: 47

"A journal about sex that's geared to turn on your mind and your body, containing some of the best photography as well as best-written erotica published in the U.S. It also includes essays, news, poetry and anything else that has to do with sex sensibility."

Became a webzine after Fall 2000.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1988 – Fall 2000
Website:   www.libidomag.com

Lichgate

Total Issues: 1

Small press "magazine of disquieting tales".

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1995: Miller/Contento

Life [1881]

The Christmas number for 1881 was advertised as "containing a series of tales, stories, poems and sketches by eminent authors, including Coals of Fire, by D. Christie Murray".

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1881

Life [1883]

Humorous magazine noted for its art by Gibson; authors include John Kendrick Bangs, Brander Matthews, Robert Benchley. The title bought by Henry Luce in 1936: his Life was a different type of magazine (see separate entry below).

Issues & Index Sources

  1883 – Oct-1936

Publishers

  John Ames Mitchell; Charles Dana Gibson

Editors

  1883 – 1892: Edward Sanford Martin
  1892 – ?: Thomas L. Masson
  1924 – 1928: Robert E. Sherwood

Frequency

  1883 – 1931: weekly
  1931 – 1936: monthly
 

Life [1936]

Although almost wholly non-fiction (like other Luce publications, such as the news-weekly, Time), the heavily-pictorial Life has been known to publish occasional pieces of fiction, including "The Silence of the Sea" by Vercors (1943), "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway (1952), "The Bridges of Toko-ri" by James Michener (1953) and "The Kilimanjaro Machine" by Ray Bradbury (22-Jan-1965).

Issues & Index Sources

  23-Nov-1936 – 1972
  1978 – ?

Publishers

  Time, Inc. (Henry Luce)

Formats

  big slick

Frequency

  weekly

Life and Adventure Library

Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources:  1890 – 1893
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.

Life and Letters

Total Issues: 154

A literary review which published one or two stories each issue, often experimental. Authors include Enid Bagnold, Nugent Barker, Lord Dunsany, D.H. Lawrence, Sean O'Casey.

Note: Life & Letters became the sponge that absorbed other literary/ critical magazines: To-Day in 1935, The London Mercury and Bookman in May-1939.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1928 – Apr-1935: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
  Sep-1935 – Jun-1945, as Life and Letters Today: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
  Jul-1945 – Jan-1946, as Life and Letters and the London Mercury and Bookman: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
  Feb-1946 – Jun-1950, as Life and Letters: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970

Publishers

  1928 – 1934: The Statesman Publishing Co.
  1935 – 1950: Constable

Editors

  1928 – 1934: Desmond McCarthy
  1934: Hamish Miles
  1934 – 1935: R. Ellis Roberts
  1935 – 1950: Robert Herring

Frequency

  monthly (but mostly quarterly, 1932 - 1938)

Sources

  BritLit4

The Life of Gene Tunney

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1927
Publishers:   Dell
Formats:   pulp
Sources:   UltGuide

Life's Romances

Total Issues: 3?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1941 – 1946?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Bell Syndicate
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Life Story Magazine

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Country Press
Editors:   Geraldine Rhoads
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   25c
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

The Lightbearer Twopenny Stories

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  1933
Publishers:   John Ritchie, Kilmarnock
Pagecounts:   32pp

Lighthouse Magazine

Total Issues: 7 (to Aug-2007)

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-2003 – present: Miller/Contento (Missing: any after #6)
Publishers:   Lighthouse Magazine, P.O. Box 106, Jarrow, NE32 3WZ
Website:   www.lighthousemediaone.co.uk
Editors:   Paul Calvin Wilson
Formats:   A4
Prices:   £5.00
Pagecounts:   50pp

Lights Up

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   St Paul, Minnesota
Editors:   Frances Mazo (in 1940)


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