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Man (US)

American reprint edition of the Australian magazine Man, printed in Australia, containing re-edited material that had previously appeared in the Australian magazine and carrying no advertising of any kind.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1951
Publishers:   K.G. Murray Pub. Co., Sydney
Formats:   slick
Frequency:   monthly
Related Sites:   www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/man.html

Man About Town (UK)

Launched in 1952 by journalist John Taylor as a spin-off from The Tailor & Cutter, a trade journal, Man About Town is usually described as the first magazine for men published in the UK, although it was concerned mostly with fashion, unlike men's magazines then starting to appear in the USA. In 1960 it was taken over by Clive Labovitch and Michael Heseltine (later an MP) and published initially by a subsidiary of their Cornmarket Press, Fame Magazine Ltd. The magazine was glossy, well designed and tapped into the growing sixties scene with photography by Terence Donovan and David Bailey.

Issues & Index Sources

  Spring 1953 – Feb-1961: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Mar-1961 – Jun-1962, as About Town: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Jul-1962 – c. 1967, as Town (for Men): Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Spring 1953 – 1960: The Tailor & Cutter Ltd.
  Spring 1960: Fame Magazine Ltd., 1 Lower James Street, London W.1.
  c. Jun-1961 – Jan-1962: Clive Labovitch & Michael Heseltine
  c. Aug-1962: Cornmarket Press Ltd., 86-88 Edgware Road, London W.2.
  c. Mar-1963: Cornmarket Magazines Ltd., 86-88 Edgware Road, London W.2.

Editors

  Spring 1960: Clive Labovitch & Michael Heseltine
  c. Jun-1961 – c. Sep-1961: David Hughes
  c. Nov-1961 – Jan-1962: Clive Labovitch
  c. Aug-1962 – ?: Nicholas Tomalin
  ?: Julian Critchley

Formats

  12 1/4" x 9 1/4"

Prices

  2/6d

Pagecounts

  76pp - 104pp

Frequency

  monthly

Man About Town (US)

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1939 – ?
Formats:   digest
Sources:   MansWorld

Mandrake

Literary magazine containing mainly poems and articles, but also some occasional fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1945 – 1956?

Publishers

  May-1945 – Oct-1947: Mandrake, Wadham College, Oxford
  1949 – ?: 44 Cholmley Gardens, London NW6

Editors

  John Wain and/or Arthur Boyars

Frequency

  irregular

Manford's Monthly Magazine

A Universalist periodical that mainly ran religious material but also included the occasional short story.

Issues & Index Sources

  1859 – 1861
  1861 – 1895, as Manford's New Monthly Magazine: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Editors

  Erasmus Manford & Mrs. H. B. Manford

Frequency

  monthly

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine

Total Issues: 24

A character magazine featuring novels based on the popular television series.

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1966 – Jan-1968: Miller/Contento
Monthly Murders
Publishers:   Leo Margulies Corp., N.Y.
Editors:   Alden H. Norton
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   144pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   CookMDE
   
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The Manhattan

Total Issues: 21

Subtitled "An Illustrated Literary Magazine for the People". Featured fiction from Julian Hawthorne, Maria Louise Poole, Harriet Prescott Spofford. Ran from Vol. 1 no.1 to Vol. 4 no. 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1883 – Sep-1884
Publishers:   The Manhattan Magazine Co., NY, NY
Editors:   William Henry Forman
Formats:   standard
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   varied from 80pp to 130pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Manhattan Quarterly

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Manhattan College, New York
Editors:   John G. Keating (in 1940)

Manhunt

Total Issues: 114

Manhunt boasted it was the world's best-selling crime fiction magazine, and was certainly the "gold standard" against which all other "tough" crime magazines of the period measured themselves. Starting in January 1953 as a monthly digest, it flirted briefly (from March 1957 to May 1958) with a larger format to enhance newstand sales. The latter was not a success however and it soon reverted to digest size and dropped to bimonthly. In all it ran for almost 15 years and notched up a very respectable 114 issues.

From January 1953 to March 1956 the cover read Manhunt Detective Story Monthly, but the magazine was always called just Manhunt in the table of contents.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1953 – Apr/May-1967: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Eagle Publications, N.Y.

Editors

  1953 – 1958: John McCloud
  1958 – 1960: Francis X. Lewis
  1960 – 1963: John Underwood

Formats

  Jan-1953 – Feb-1957: digest
  Mar-1957 – Apr-1958: large size
  May-1958 – Apr/May-1967: digest

Prices

  Jan-1953 – Nov-1963: 35c
  Dec-1963 – Apr/May-1967: 50c

Pagecounts

  Jan-1953 – Feb-1957: 128pp
  Mar-1957 – Apr-1958: 64pp

Frequency

  mostly monthly

Sources

  UltGuide, CookMDE
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Manhunt Detective Story Magazine (Australia)

Total Issues: 13

Magazine series in comic book size that reprints US Manhunt with same stories and authors but with new cover art.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1953 – Oct-1954: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   New Century Press PTY, Ltd., Sydney, Australia
Prices:   2/-
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Manhunt (UK)

Total Issues: 13

British reprint edition of Manhunt.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1953 – Sep-1954: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Monthly Magazines Ltd, London
Sources:   CookMDE
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Manhunt Stories

Total Issues: 1?

The contents of the only known issue (#1) are identical to the only known issue (#9) of the second series of Detective Stories, also published by Page Publications.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Page Publications Pty. Ltd., Surry Hills
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   64pp
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Manifest Destiny

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1993 – #2, 1994: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Hobaugh Publications, Greensburg, PA.

Man Junior

Offshoot from Man with the same mix of pin-ups, cartoons, features and fiction. In its first issue an introductory editorial stated that the publication was designed to satisfy Man readers who had wanted the original mag to be weekly or even fortnightly, and publication of the new magazine was interleaved with the original. The name, Man Junior, represented the fact that the magazine initially appeared in a "pocket size".

The magazine was suspended during the latter years of World War II and, in March 1954, switched to a full-size magazine (similar to Man), although the pocket-sized magazine was continued the following month with the creation of Pocket Man.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1937 – Oct-1942
  Sep-1945 – Jun-1973: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  K.G. Murray, Sydney; Gordon & Gotch Ltd.

Editors

  Frank S. Greenop (in 1954)

Formats

  Oct-1937 – Oct-1942: digest
  Sep-1945 – Feb-1954: digest
  Mar-1954 – Jun-1973: 7.5" x 10.5"

Prices

  2/- (in 1954)

Related Sites

  www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/man.html

Mãnoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing

Stories, poetry and articles based on Pacific culture. Has published W.S. Merwin, Barry Lopez, Janet Tan. Circulation 2,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1989 – present
Publishers:   English Dept., University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/manoa/ (or www.hawaii.edu/mjournal)
Editors:   Robert Shepard at outset; Frank Stewart (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   240pp
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Man's Action

Total Issues: 103+

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1957 – Aug-1976: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Candar Publishing Co., Inc.
Sources:   MansWorld
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