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Matrix [1974]

Total Issues: 62 (to Dec-2002)

Publishes fiction, poetry, commentary and photography. Authors include Anne Carson, Nino Ricci, Lorna Crozier, Margaret Atwood. Note: Not to be confused with Matrix published from Philadelphia in c1940.

Issues & Index Sources:  1975 – present
Publishers:   P.O. Box 100, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, PQ H9X 3L4
Frequency:   2-3 issues per year

Maverick

Based on TV series of same name.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1959 (possibly phantom)
Publishers:   Great American
Formats:   digest

Mavericks

Total Issues: 4+1=5

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1934 – Dec-1934: Fictionmags Website
  Feb-1935, as Bull's Eye Western Stories: Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Popular Publications

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  15c

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Max Brand's Western Magazine

Total Issues: 33

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1949 – Aug-1954: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   New Publications (Popular Publications)
Formats:   large pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   mostly bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
 
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Max Brand's Western Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Max Brand's Western Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11

Max Brand's Western Magazine (UK)

Total Issues: 18?

British reprint edition of Max Brand's Western Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Pemberton's of Manchester
Formats:   standard pulp

Mayfair [1946]

Contained articles and fiction for teen-agers.

Issues & Index Sources:  1946 – ?
Publishers:   Spry Publications Ltd., 119 Ewell Road, Surbiton, Surrey.
Editors:   Hilary Jordan
Prices:   1/6d
Frequency:   monthly

Mayfair [1966]

A sex-oriented pictorial men's magazine in the Playboy and Penthouse mould. Still publishes occasional men's-magazine fiction! Circulation 330,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1966 – present
Publishers:   Paul Raymond, London
Editors:   currently Steve Shields
Formats:   slick
Frequency:   monthly; now four-weekly
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McBride's Magazine

see under Lippincott's Magazine

McCall's Magazine

Became a large-format women's magazine after the turn of the century; circulation had reached 6 million by 1960. Published copious fiction, authors including Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gelett Burgess, Ray Bradbury, Jack Finney, Anne Tyler, Tim O'Brien (began as a small pattern magazine entitled The Queen, later The Queen of Fashion, circa 1880-1897).

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1897 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  ? – Dec-2002, as Rosie, the Magazine

Publishers

  McCall

Editors

  1921 – 1928: Harry Payne Burton
  1928 – 1949: Otis L. Wiese

Formats

  standard, later big slick

Frequency

  monthly

Related Sites

  MagazineArt

McClure's Magazine

Modelled on The Strand, it was originally planned as a US edition of The Idler and initially reprinted much material from it. Cheaply priced, it became the 1890s trend-setter for American illustrated magazines (Munsey's Magazine soon copied it); known for its exposes and muckraking, it was also a major vehicle for popular fiction. Authors included Conan Doyle, O. Henry, Jack London, Joel Chandler Harris, W.A. White.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1893 – Jan-1926: Index to Periodical Literature (Poole to 1906 only; Hannigan 1900 - 1914 only)
The Standard Index of Short Stories
  Jun-1926 – 1930

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Publishers

  1893 – 1913: McClure's, NY
  1926 – 1928: Hearst
  1928 – 1930: James R. Quirk

Editors

  1893 – 1913: S.S. McClure
  1927 – 1928: Arthur S. Hoffman
  ? – 1929: Magus

Formats

  1893 – c. 1915: standard
  c. 1920: big slick
  ?: standard size
  ?: pulp paper

Frequency

  monthly (suspended publication for a year in 1921/1922, a half-year in 1924/1925 and six months in 1926)

Related Sites

  Spartacus Educational
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McGirt's Magazine

An illustrated monthly on art, science, literature, and other subjects. Serialised "The Black Sleuth" by John Edward Bruce.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1903? – 1909
Publishers:   James E. McGirt, Philadelphia, PA
Editors:   James E. McGirt
Frequency:   monthly (Aug-1903? - Aug-1908); quarterly (1909)

McSweeney's

McSweeney's began in September 2000 as a literary journal, edited by Dave Eggers, that published only works rejected from other magazines. McSweeney's has grown to be one of the country's best and largest-circulation literary journals with an expanding, loyal subscriber base and strong independent book store following. Original content also posted on Web site.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-2000 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   429 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215; 394A Ninth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.mcsweeneys.net
Editors:   David Eggers (in 2000)
Email Address:   mcsweeneysmail@yahoo.com
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

M.D.

Magazine for doctors which also published fiction. Possibly founded by Felix Marti-Ibanez in 1950?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1957 – Jun-1994
Publishers:   MD Publications, New York

Me

Women's magazine which publishes some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1989 – ?
Publishers:   London
Frequency:   weekly

Meanjin

Australia's leading literary magazine, which publishes occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  1940 – 1946, as Meanjin Papers
  1946 – 1960, as Meanjin
  1961 – 1976, as Meanjin Quarterly
  1977 – present, as Meanjin

Website

  www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au/about.htm

Editors

  1940 – 1974: C.B. Christesen
  1974 – 1982: Jim Davidson
  1982 – 1986: Judith Brett
  1987 – 1993: Jenny Lee
  1994 – 1998: Christina Thompson
  1998 – 2001: Stephanie Holt
  2001 – present: Ian Britain

Mean Streets

Total Issues: 17

Hardboiled crime quarterly. Mostly non-fiction but it usually had one or two stories per issue, several of them US reprints.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1990 – Dec-1996: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Editors:   Stuart Coupe
Frequency:   quarterly
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