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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Aust)

Total Issues: 14

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1954 – #14, 1958: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Consolidated Press, Ltd., Sydney, Australia.
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) [1953]

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1953 – Sep-1954: Miller/Contento
Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
Publishers:   Mellifont Press, London.
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (UK) [1959]

Total Issues: 55

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1959 – Jun-1964: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd., London.
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Magazine of Fiction

 see under Monthly Magazine of Fiction

Magazine of Horror

Total Issues: 36

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1963 – Apr-1971: Miller/Contento
Monthly Murders
Publishers:   Health Knowledge Inc., N.Y.
Editors:   Robert A.W. Lowndes
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   mostly bi-monthly
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Magazine of Short Stories

Total Issues: 807+

Issues & Index Sources

  12-Jan-1889 – 8-Jul-1893: Fictionmags Website (first volume only)
  15-Jul-1893 – 18-Jun-1904, as Short Stories
  25-Jun-1904 – 10-Aug-1907, as Smith's Weekly

Publishers

  12-Jan-1889 – 8-Jul-1893: E. & H. Bennett, 20 Bedford Street, Strand, London WC
  15-Jul-1893 – 17-Feb-1900: C.A. Pearson

Formats

  tabloid

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  AgeStory

The Magazine of Speculative Poetry

Total Issues: 21 (to Jun-2003)

Issues & Index Sources:  v1 #1, 1984? – present: Miller/Contento (Missing: #1, #2, #4, #5, #14)
Publishers:   Magazine of Speculative Poetry, PO Box 564, Beloit, WI 53512
Website:   www.sff.net/people/roger-dutcher/#msp
Editors:   Roger Dutcher
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $3.50
Pagecounts:   28
Frequency:   irregular

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:  Mar-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 – #13, 1990, as The Mage: Miller/Contento (Missing: #10, #13)

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

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
 

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