Magazine Data File

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Magazine Issues

Marriage Confessions

See under Marriage Stories

Marriage Stories

Total Issues: 14+34+30+10=88

Cover of Feb-1929 issue in Pulp Culture

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1924 – Apr-1925:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

May-1925 – Feb-1928, as True Marriage Stories:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Mar-1928 – Aug-1930, as Marriage Stories

Sep-1930 – Jun-1931, as Marriage Confessions

Publishers

Corte Publishing Co. (Dell)

Formats

standard pulp

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide

Mars Hill Review

Christian periodical that occasionally publishes fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: ? – present:

Fictionmags Website

(fiction in sample issues only)

Publishers:   The Mars Hill Forum
Website:   www.marshillforum.org
Editors:   Sarah Koops Vanderveen
Formats:   large little magazine format
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   Thrice yearly

Mars Hill Review

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1949:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Mars Hill Forum
Editors:   Sarah Koops Vanderveen
Formats:   trade paperback
Pagecounts:   160pp

Marspen Series

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1891

Publishers: Marks & Spencer

Martin Speed Detective

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources: 1945 – Feb-1948:

Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   irregular

The Marvel

Total Issues: 71+462+952=1485

Ran early stories of Sexton Blake and Nelson Lee but was best known in its day for the adventures of three adventurers Jack, Sam and Pete by S. Clarke Hook.

Incorporates: Nugget Library from 12-Mar-1921; Boys' Herald from 1-Apr-1922; (Sports Stories from 15-Oct-1921 (?))

Issues & Index Sources

11-Nov-1893 – 16-Mar-1895, as The Halfpenny Marvel Library:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

23-Mar-1895 – 23-Jan-1904, as The Marvel:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only; numbered 72-533)

30-Jan-1904 – 22-Apr-1922, as The Marvel:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

#superseded by Sport and Adventure

Publishers

Harmsworth (later Amalgamated Press)

Editors

  Somers J. Summers
  c. 1894: S. Clarke Hook
  ?: Hamilton Edwards [later editor-in-chief]
  c. 1922: John Nix Pentelow
  c. 1922: Stan Boddington [Assistant Editor]

Formats

small tabloid (octavo) story-paper

Prices

½d; 1d; 2d

Pagecounts

20pp; 36pp

Frequency

weekly (every Wednesday)

The Marvellous Magazine

Contained often unauthorized and edited versions of famous gothic stories and novelettes, e.g. Anne Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho" was cut by one-tenth and became "The Veiled Picture, or the Mysteries of Gorgono." Nevertheless the first specialized horror periodical.

Note: Not to be confused with The Marvellous Magazine published in Dublin in 26 weekly parts in 1822 which was a miscellany of history, travel and science (all non-fiction).

Issues & Index Sources: May-1802 – Apr-1804

Publishers:   Thomas Tegg
Editors:   probably also Tegg
Formats:   large folio
Frequency:   monthly (but also issued in weekly parts)

Marvel Science Fiction

see under Marvel Science Stories

Marvel Science Stories

Total Issues: 5+2+2+3+3=15

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1938 – Aug-1939:

Miller/Contento

Dec-1939 – May-1940, as Marvel Tales:

Miller/Contento

Nov-1940 – Apr-1941, as Marvel Stories:

Miller/Contento

Nov-1950 – May-1951, as Marvel Science Stories:

Miller/Contento

Aug-1951 – May-1952, as Marvel Science Fiction:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Aug-1938 – Nov-1938: Postal Publications; Chicago
  Feb-1939 – Apr-1941: Western Fiction Publishing Co.; Chicago
  Nov-1950 – May-1952: Stadium Publishing Corp.; New York

Editors

Feb-1939 – Apr-1941: Martin Goodman
Nov-1950 – May-1952: R. O. Erisman

Formats

  Aug-1938 – Feb-1951: standard pulp
  May-1951 – Nov-1951: digest
  May-1952: standard pulp

Prices

Aug-1938 – Apr-1941: 15c
Nov-1950 – May-1952: 25c

Pagecounts

  Aug-1938: 128pp
  Nov-1938 – Apr/May-1939: 132pp
  Aug-1939 – Apr-1941: 116pp
  Nov-1950 – May-1952: 132pp

Frequency

irregular

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide

Marvel Science Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 1

The single issue is a complete reprint of the February 1951 (US) issue, except for UK advertisements being substituted for the originals.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1951:

Index to British Science Fiction Magazines

Publishers: Thorpe & Porter
Formats: standard pulp

Marvel Stories

see under Marvel Science Stories

Marvel Tales [1934]

Total Issues: 5

Amateur magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1934 – Summer 1935:

Miller/Contento

Sources: UltGuide

Marvel Tales [1939]

see under Marvel Science Stories

Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources: 1996 – Summer 2000:	Mystery Short Fiction
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Gruner+Jahr USA Publishing
Editors:   Kathryne V. Sagan
Formats:   quarto slick
Prices:   $3.99 (now $5.99)
Pagecounts:   100pp
Frequency:   twice yearly



Issue Checklist

Mascot

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: 1949

Publishers:   Martin & Reid
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   monthly

Mask Detective

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: Apr/May-1960 – Jun/Jul-1960:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Atlas
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1/-
Frequency:   bi-monthly


Issue Checklist

The Masked Detective

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1940 – Spring 1943:	Pulp Magazine Index 1
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Better Publications
Editors:   Leo Margulies
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



Issue Checklist

Masked Rider Western Magazine

Total Issues: 100

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1934 – Apr-1953:	Pulp Magazine Index 4	(incomplete)
	Fictionmags Website	(incomplete)

Publishers

Apr-1934 – Jun-1937: Ranger Publications
Mar-1938 – Apr-1953: Standard Magazines

Editors

Eugene A. Clancy; G.B. Farnum (from Nov-1939)

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

15c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

  Apr-1934 – Jun-1937: irregular
  Mar-1938 – Jun-1943: bi-monthly
  Summer 1944 – Jun-1945: quarterly
  Jul-1945 – Apr-1950: bi-monthly
  Summer 1950 – Fall 1950: quarterly
  1951 – Apr-1953: bi-monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest



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Masked Rider Western (Canada)

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Publication Enterprises Limited, Toronto; Better Publications of Canada, Ltd.
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11