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Master Detective (UK)

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Publishers:   Argus Press

Master Mysteries Magazine

Total Issues: 5

A short-lived magazine which published a series of stories by Arthur Hoerl, seemingly syndicated to various newspapers previously as "Master Mysteries", although the sources have not yet been traced. The fifth issue appears to be, at least in the main, a reprint of stories published in earlier issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1933 – Summer 1934: Cook/Miller (Missing: Winter 1933, Spring 1934)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   F.G. Wilson, 304 Morgan Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Masterpiece Library for Boys and Girls

Issues & Index Sources:  1924 – 1926
Publishers:   Stead's Bairn's Library
Pagecounts:   68pp

The Master Thriller Series

Total Issues: 32

Really a pulp-format anthology series, each title reflecting a different genre. It included a number of adventure, mystery and weird fiction titles. The titles are as follows:

Tales of the Foreign Legion (#1, Jul-1933; #5, Jun-1934, #10, Oct-1935; #4, Jan-1937; #29, Sep-1939)
  Tales of the North-West Mounted Police (#2, Sep-1933; #23, Jan-1939)
  Tales of the Seven Seas (#3, Dec-1933)
  Tales of Mystery and Detection (#4, Mar-1934)
  Tales of the Uncanny (#6, Sep-1934; #20, Apr-1938)
  Tales of African Adventure (#7, Dec-1934)
  Tales of the Orient (#8, Mar-1935)
  Tales of the Jungle (#9, Jul-1935; #30, Oct-1939)
  Tales of the Sea (#11, Jan-1936)
  Tales of Valour (#12, Apr-1936)
  Tales of the Levant (#13, Jul-1936)
  Tales of the Air (#14, Sep-1936)
  Tales of Adventure (#16, Apr-1937)
  Tales of Terror (#17, Jul-1937)
  Tales of East and West (#18, Oct-1937)
  Tales of the Underworld (#19, Jan-1938; #27, Jul-1939)
  Tales of Crime and Punishment (#21, Jul-1938)
  Tales of the Grand Express (#22, Oct-1938)
  Tales of Outlawry (#24, Apr-1939)
  Tales of the Grand Dominion (#25, May-1939)
  Tales of the Far Frontier (#26, Jun-1939)
  The Far Flung Coasts of Crime (#28, Aug-1939)
  Tales of Gangsters and 'G'-Men (#31, Nov-1939)
  Tales of Ghosts and Haunted Houses (#32, Dec-1939)

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1933 – #32, 1939: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  World's Work

Editors

  H. Norman Evans

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  1/-

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  Jul-1933 – Apr-1939: quarterly
  May-1939 – Dec-1939: monthly

Sources

  AgeStory
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The Match!

Total Issues: 96 (to Aug-2001)

Labelled an "anarchist journal", published occasional fiction, mainly by the editor/publisher under a variety of pseudonyms such as Ken Winslow and Iris Lane.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Fred Woodworth
Editors:   Fred Woodworth
Prices:   $2.50 (in 1993); $2.75 (1994 - 1996)
Frequency:   annual (in 1990's)
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Matrix [1940]

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1940: Index to (American) Little Magazines (1940 - 1947 only)
Publishers:   Philadelphia
Editors:   Joseph Moskovitz (in 1940)

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:  Aug-1966 – present
Publishers:   Paul Raymond, London
Editors:   currently Steve Shields
Formats:   slick
Frequency:   monthly; now four-weekly
Related Sites:   Wikipedia (magazine)
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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
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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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