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Man to Man

Total Issues: 120+

There was also a Man to Man Yearbook in 1963 at least.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1949? – May-1976?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Picture Magazines Inc.; Volitant Publishing Corp, 105 East 35th Street, New York, NY 16
Editors:   W.W. Scott
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   MansWorld
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Mantrap

Total Issues: 2

Mantrap was published by the same publisher as Manhunt and featured the same type of hard-boiled crime-adventure stories, with many of the same authors, but never caught on and lasted only two issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1956 – Oct-1956: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Secret Life Publications, imprint of Eagle Publications
Editors:   Walter R. Schmidt
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE
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Many Mountains Moving

A literary journal of diverse contemporary voices featuring previously unpublished fiction, poetry, essays, and art by contributors worldwide. Has published Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich. Circulation 2,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1995 – present
Publishers:   Many Mountains Moving, Boulder, CO
Website:   www.mmminc.org
Editors:   Naomi Horii
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   200pp
Frequency:   thrice yearly

Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine

Total Issues: 50

A small circulation fantasy magazine with the emphasis on short, often humorous stories, many by female writers.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1988 – Dec-2000: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   MZB Enterprises, Box 249, Berkeley, CA 94701
Editors:   Jan Burke; Rachel E. Holmen
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $5.95
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   quarterly
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The Marks and Spencer Magazine

Magazine published by the retail chain which featured some fiction in the 1930s at least.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Marks and Spencer Limited
Formats:   9" x 12"
Prices:   2d (in 1932)
Pagecounts:   84pp (in 1932)

Mark Trail

Boys' magazine which published a lot of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1951 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Wret Publishing Company
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   64pp

The Marlboro Review

Total Issues: 12 (to Dec-2002)

Usual literary miscellany. Has published Saul Bellow, Jean Valentine. Circulation 1,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1996 – present
Publishers:   collective, Marlboro, VT
Website:   www.marlbororeview.com
Editors:   collective under Ellen Dudley
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   112pp
Frequency:   twice yearly

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
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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


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