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Magazine Issues

Men in Conflict

Total Issues: 27+

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1961 – Mar-1967

Publishers

Aug-1961 – Nov-1966: Normandy Associates
Mar-1967: Stanley Publications

Sources

MansWorld

Men in Danger

Total Issues: 8+

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1955 – Apr-1965

Publishers:   1964 – 1965: Jalart House
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   MansWorld

Men Only

Founded as a pictorial humour magazine for men, until the 1950s it was a second-stringer to the better-known Lilliput. By the 1960s it had developed into a large-format soft-porn magazine on the lines of Playboy and Penthouse.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1935 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   George Newnes, later Paul Raymond
Editors:   Reginald Arkell (1930s - 1954);
Formats:   digest, later a big slick
Frequency:   monthly



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Men's Digest

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s

Publishers:   Novel Books, Inc., 2715 North Pulaski Rd., Chicago, Illinois 60639
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   50pp
Sources:   MansWorld



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Men's Pictorial

Total Issues: 8+

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Publishers: New Publications
Sources: MansWorld

Men Today

Total Issues: 90+

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1961 – Jan-1975:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Jan-1963: Reese
Apr-1964 – ?: EmTee Publications

Sources

MansWorld



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The Merchant's Ledger

see under The New York Ledger

Mercury Mystery-Book Magazine

Total Issues: 23

Mercury Mystery-Book Magazine was the continuation of a long-running series of full-length (and condensed) mystery novels published in a digest-sized, paperback format, under the title of Mercury Mystery since March 1940. It ran for 23 issues (starting with #210) before merging with Bestseller Mystery Magazine.

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-Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1963 – Feb-1964:	Monthly Murders	(Missing: Nov-1963)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Nov-1963)

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 – ?



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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 Bedtime Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1952

Publishers: Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

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