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Mercury Mystery-Book Magazine

Total Issues: 23

Numbering began from #210. It was a continuation of the Mercury Mystery novels, published in digest form since Mar-1940.

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1955 – Apr-1959: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

#merges with Bestseller Mystery Magazine

Publishers

  Mercury Publications

Editors

  Joseph W. Ferman

Formats

  digest

Prices

  35c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  Sep-1955 – May-1956: monthly
  Jun-1956 – Apr-1959: bi-monthly

Sources

  UltGuide, CookMDE
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Mercury Mystery Book Magazine (Australia)

Total Issues: 6 (at least)

Australian reprint edition of Mercury Mystery Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1956 – ?: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: #2, any after #6)
Publishers:   Atlas Publishers, Melbourne
 
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Mercury Mystery Magazine (UK)

Total Issues: 12

British reprint edition of Mercury Mystery Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1963 – Feb-1964: Monthly Murders (Missing: Nov-1963)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co., Ltd., 18 Bride Lane, London E.C.4
Sources:   CookMDE
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Meridian

Total Issues: 5 (to May-2001)

Student run magazine encouraging new writers. Has published Rita Dove, Richard Russo, Anne Beattie, Carrie Brown.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1998 – present
Publishers:   English Dept., University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400121, Charlottesville, VA 22903-4121 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.engl.virginia.edu/creativewriting/literarymagazines.shtml
Editors:   Ted Genoways & Elizabeth Styron
Email Address:   meridian@virginia.edu
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   176pp
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Mermaid

Men's magazine, published Ellison's "A Blue Note for Bayou Betty" and "The Gal With the Horizontal Mind" (1958).

Issues & Index Sources:  1958 – ?

Merry and Wise [1865]

Total Issues: 84

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1865 – Dec-1871

#becomes Old Merry's Monthly

Publishers

  Jackson Walford & Hodder

Formats

  small

Pagecounts

  48pp

Frequency

  monthly

Merry and Wise [1886]

Total Issues: 24

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1886 – Dec-1887
Publishers:   Burns & Oates
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   monthly

Merry-Go-Round

Total Issues: 120

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1923 – Oct-1933: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

#becomes New Merry-Go-Round

Publishers

  Chesterman

Pagecounts

  48pp

Frequency

  monthly

Merry-Go-Round (New Series)

"Line drawings (comics), stories, articles, puzzles, games, verses, etc. for children."

Issues & Index Sources:  Autumn 1947 – ?
Publishers:   Arthur Waite, Kenworthy Buildings, 83 Bridge St., Manchester.
Editors:   Arthur Waite.
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   40pp
Frequency:   quarterly

The Merry Mag.

Total Issues: 37+31=68

The Merry Mag. was Amalgamated Press's response to the success of The Happy Mag. but did not have the draw of Richmal Crompton's "William" stories.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1924 – Jul-1927: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
  Aug-1927 – Feb-1930, as The Merry Magazine: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

#merges with The Red Magazine

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press, London

Formats

  small pulp

Prices

  7d

Pagecounts

  96pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory

Merry's Museum

Children's magazine; absorbed Parley's Magazine from 1851.

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1841 – Jun-1872?

Publishers

  1841 – 1846: Bradbury & Soden, Boston
  1846 – 1848: G.W. & S.O. Post, NY
  1849: Macdonald & Co.
  1849 – 1855: S.T. Allen & Co.
  1855 – 1866: J.N. Stearns, NY
  1866 – 1872: H.B. Fuller, Boston

Editors

  1841 – 1854: Samuel Goodrich
  1854 – 1857: Stephen T. Allen
  1857 – 1866: John Stearns
  1866 – 1870: Louisa M. Alcott

Frequency

  monthly

The Merrythoughts' Magazine

The Most Cheery Order of Merrythoughts appears to have been a club formed for the readers of the Daily Chronicle. The only issue of the magazine seen included fiction by Barry Pain.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1932: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   The Most Cheery Order of Merrythoughts Ltd., London
Formats:   11.25" x 8.75"
Prices:   4d
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Messenger

Total Issues: 42?

Called the only radical negro magazine in America. Ran frequent stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1917 – May/Jun-1928
Publishers:   Messenger Pub. Co., NY
Formats:   large format
Frequency:   monthly?
Related Sites:   Spartacus Educational

Metropolitan

Dedicated to the short story; seeking to develop new writers but also publishes Russell Hoban, Colum McCann.

Issues & Index Sources:  1993 – present
Publishers:   John Ashbrook, Manchester
Editors:   Elizabeth Baines & Ailsa Cox
Frequency:   twice-yearly

The Metropolitan Magazine [1831]

Pioneered serialization of fiction, running several of Marryat's own novels (e.g. "Peter Simple" 1832-33). Although started as a highbrow magazine it soon shifted to a more dynamic policy with action-orientated fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1831 – Apr-1850

Publishers

  1832 – 1847: Saunders & Otley

Editors

  1831 – 1832: Thomas Campbell
  1832 – 1836: Frederick Marryat
  ?: James Grant

Formats

  standard

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  BritLit2

The Metropolitan Magazine [1895]

Total Issues: 365

Still a standard magazine in 1912, but became an oversize slick before 1920 (perhaps in 1915 - 1916). It may have been retitled The New Metropolitan Magazine between 1898 and 1903.

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1895 – Sep-1924: The Standard Index of Short Stories (Hannigan Jan-1900 - Dec-1914 only, FicMags sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website
  Oct-1924 – Aug-1925, as Macfadden's Fiction Lover's Magazine

Publishers

  ?: John Brisben Walker
  Oct-1924 – Aug-1925: Bernarr Macfadden

Editors

  ?: John Brisben Walker
  1904 – ?: John Kendrick Bangs
  Oct-1924 – Aug-1925: F. Orlin Tremaine

Formats

  standard, illustrated, often with posed photographs; later a larger size

Prices

  15c

Frequency

  monthly

Related Sites

  MagazineArt


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