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Magazine Issues

The Magazine of the Year

Full title was "'47: The Magazine of the Year" in 1947 and "'48: The Magazine of the Year" in 1948. Published a couple of pieces of fiction in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: 1947 – 1948:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Associated Magazine Contributors, New York
Editors: Richard E. Lauterbach

Magazine World

Literary magazine "filled with short stories, poetry, essays, and the like".

Issues & Index Sources: 1925 – 1931

Publishers: American Education Press, Columbus, Ohio
Prices: 25c

The Mage

Issues & Index Sources

#1, 198? – #7, 1987:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: #1, #2, #3, #4)

#8, 1987, as The Best of the Mage:

Miller/Contento

#9, 1988 – #12, 1989, as The Mage:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: #10)

The Magic Carpet Magazine

see under Oriental Stories

Magic Love

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1945 – Jan-1947

Publishers:   Arrow Publishing, NY; last issue as Trojan Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Magic Realism

Total Issues: 9

Runs stories of magic realism, literary fantasy, folktales and fable.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1990 – #9, 1994:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: #1, #2, #3)

Publishers:   PYX Press, P.O. Box 922648, Sylmar, CA 91392-2648 (in 1998)
Editors:   C. Darren Butler
Formats:   digest
Pagecounts:   70pp
Frequency:   quarterly

The Magnet (Library)

Total Issues: 1120+563=1683

Probably the best known British boys' story paper. Famous for its stories of Billy Bunter and Harry Wharton & Co. which appeared under the byline of Frank Richards; the characters were the creation of Charles Hamilton, who wrote over 1,380 of the Richards yarns, and wrote almost the entire magazine in the 1930s. Hitherto other contributors were S. Rossiter Shepherd, Edwy Searles Brooks and S.E. Austin.

The Magnet was the centrepiece of the A.P.'s Companion Papers, which also included The Gem.

Incorporated into Knock-Out Comic (comic).

Further Reading: The Magnet Companion (London, Howard Baker Press, 1971); The Concise Magnet Companion by George Beal (London, Howard Baker, 1986, expanded as The Complete Magnet Companion (Surbitan, Surrey, Quartermain Press, 1996).

Issues & Index Sources

15-Feb-1908 – 3-Aug-1929, as The Magnet Library:	The Magnet Companion	(IdxMgn: lead stories only; StyIdx: incomplete)
	Story Paper Index	(IdxMgn: lead stories only; StyIdx: incomplete)

10-Aug-1929 – 18-May-1940, as The Magnet:	The Magnet Companion	(IdxMgn: lead stories only; StyIdx: incomplete)
	Story Paper Index	(IdxMgn: lead stories only; StyIdx: incomplete)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

  1908 – 1911: Percy Griffith
  1911 – 1916: Herbert A. Hinton
  1916 – 1919: John Nix Pentelow
  1919 – 1921: Herbert A. Hinton
  1921 – 1940: Charles M. Down
  1908 – 1911: Herbert A. Hinton [Assistant Editor]
  1911 – 1914: C.M. Down [Assistant Editor]
  1914 – 1917: G.R. Samways [Assistant Editor]
  1915 – 1917: William Pike [Assistant Editor]
  c. 1918 – 1920: Stanley Austin [Assistant Editor]
  1919 – 1921: G.R. Samways [Assistant Editor]
  c. 1921: Hedley O'Mant [Assistant Editor]
  c. 1923 – ?: Noel Wood-Smith [Assistant Editor]
  1933 – 1936: Reginald S. Taylor [Assistant Editor]

Formats

small tabloid

Prices

  ½d
  1910: 1d from #106
  1918: 1½d from #529
  Nov-1922: 2d from #770

Pagecounts

20pp; 16pp from #437

Frequency

weekly

The Magnolia, or Southern Apalachian

Originally a 'parlor' magazine. Came alive under Simms who wrote much of its fiction and poetry inc. the controversial "The Loves of a Driver".

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1840 – Dec-1840, as The Southern Ladies' Book

Jan-1841 – Jun-1842, as The Magnolia or Southern Monthly

Jul-1842 – Jun-1843, as The Magnolia, or Southern Apalachian

Publishers

George F. Pierce & Philip C. Pendleton, Macon, GA, 1840; then Pendleton alone in Savannah, GA, 1841 and Charleston, SC, 1842/1843

Editors

Pierce & Pendleton, 1840; Pendleton, 1841/1842; W.G. Simms, 1842/1843.

Frequency

monthly

The Magpie [1911]

Total Issues: 28

With the slogan "Live stories for clever people", published a high level of intelligent rather than sensational fiction, without being too "literary".

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1912 – Dec-1914:

Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Publishers

Aug-1912 – Oct-1912: Everett & Co., London
Nov-1912 – Dec-1914: Horace Marshall

Editors

Alderson Anderson

Formats

Slim standard pulp

Prices

Aug-1912 – Sep-1913: 3d
Oct-1913 – Dec-1914: 1½d

Pagecounts

  Aug-1912: 52pp
  Sep-1912 – Sep-1913: 64pp
  Oct-1913 – Dec-1914: 112pp

Frequency

monthly (but no issue for Nov-1914)

Sources

AgeStory

The Magpie [1924]

Total Issues: 4

A glossy mega-supplement to THE SKETCH, which carried a mixture of fiction and art and like the Christmas issues of THE SPHERE and GRAPHIC would make good fodder for the breaker & ephemerist markets.

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 1923 – Winter 1924:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   The Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd.
Formats:   large size slick
Frequency:   quarterly/half-yearly

Magpie [1951]

Total Issues: 26

Subtitled "The complete story magazine".

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1951 – May-1953:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   The Whitehorn Press, Phillips Park, Manchester
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   96pp - 128pp
Frequency:   monthly

Main Street

Total Issues: 3

"A Magazine of American Opinion, Arts and Letters"

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1929 – Jul-1929:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: Mar-1929)

Publishers:   Magazine Publishers
Editors:   Harold and Elinor Hersey
Formats:   Bedsheet
Prices:   50c
Frequency:   bi-monthly

The Malahat Review

Total Issues: 140 (to Dec-2002)

Publishes poetry and fiction by both new and established writers. Includes a regular prize for the best Novella and Long Poem. Circulation 1,200.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1967 – present

Publishers:   University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, British Columbia, V8W 2Y2, Canada (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   web.uvic.ca/malahat/
Editors:   Derk Wynand; Marlene Cookshaw (in 2000 - 2002)
Email Address:   malahat@uvic.ca
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   132pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Malayan Police Magazine

Published some fiction at least as a reprint anthology of same (MATA MATA MATTERS, 1937) has been seen.

Issues & Index Sources: 1928 – ?

Malcolm's

Total Issues: 3 (at least)

Subtitled "Murder Mystery and Detection".

In Monthly Murders, Mike Cook comments that "The publisher advised there were four issues but could not furnish data on fourth issue. The Production Manager was not sure the fourth issue was published. Magazine was discontinued due to poor circulation."

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1954 – May-1954:	Monthly Murders	(Missing: Possible 4th issue)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Possible 4th issue)

Publishers:   R. Malcolm & Assoc., N.Y.
Editors:   Ruth Maness
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE


Issue Checklist

Male

Total Issues: 302+

A take-off of True, featuring so-called 'true' articles or fiction thinly disguised as true. Published "The Screen Test of Mike Hammer" by Mickey Spillane, Jul. 1955.

Continued by Pantheon as a sex/girlie magazine to Jul-1980 (v30 #4) or later. There was also a Male Annual that ran from 1963 to 1970 at least.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1950 – Jun-1977:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  Jun-1951: Official Comics
  Nov-1951: Official Mag
  Jan-1958 – Sep-1968: Male Publishing Corp., 655 Madison Avenue, New York 21
  Oct-1968 – Dec-1968: Perfect Film
  Jan-1969 – Jun-1977: Magazine Management