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Modern Life Stories

Total Issues: 1?

Contained stories plus many photo studies of stars and starlets.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1948
Publishers:   Park Trading, London
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Modern Love

Total Issues: 7?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1937 – Oct-1938?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing Co.
Editors:   Carrie Vaughn
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Modern Love Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1950
Publishers:   Atlas News
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Modern Man Quarterly

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Publishers Development Corp., 8150 North Central Park Avenue, Skokie, Illinois
Prices:   50c
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Modern Maturity

A very large-circulation glossy for old folks; publishes occasional fiction, e.g. "The Book Collector" by Leon Arden (Dec-1993/Jan-1994).

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: Short Story Index
Publishers:   American Association of Retired Persons
Website:   www.modernmaturity.org/
Frequency:   bimonthly

Modern Mechanics and Inventions

A pulp-size science magazine. During the period from November 1928 to July 1929 it serialized reprints of three Edgar Rice Burroughs novels: The Moon Maid as "Conquest of the Moon" (Nov 28 to Feb 1929), At the Earth's Core as "Lost Inside the Earth" (Feb to Apr 1929), and Under the Moons of Mars as "Carter of the Red Planet" (Apr to Jul 1929). It published no original fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1928 – Jul-1929: Miller/Contento (only fiction indexed)
Sources:   UltGuide
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Modern Miss

Total Issues: 9

Subtitled "The Magazine for the Younger Set".

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1948 – May-1949: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Eric H. Hale
Editors:   Rita Boyce (1948); Rita Boyce & Joan Seager (1949)
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   24pp

Modern Mythology

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 199? – #2, 1993

The Modern Priscilla

Subtitled "A Fancy Work Magazine", aimed at women, particularly needlework fans, seems to have been running one, sometimes two stories per issue. Absorbed Everyday Housekeeping in Mar-1912, and Home Needlework Magazine in May-1917

Issues & Index Sources:  1887 – Jul-1930: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The Priscilla Publishing Co., Boston, Mass.
Prices:   10c (in 1911); 20c (in 1927)
Frequency:   monthly

The Modern Quarterly

The journal served as a major forum for intellectual debate and Marxist critique and was largely responsible for sustaining a distinctively American strain of independent radicalism through the Stalinist-dominated years of the 1930s.

Issues & Index Sources:  1923 – 1940
Publishers:   Baltimore, Maryland
Editors:   V.F. Calverton

Modern Reading

Total Issues: 23

Arguably an anthology.

Issues & Index Sources:  1941 – 1953
Publishers:   Staples & Staples to #5; Wells Gardner & Darton to #13, then Phoenix House Ltd. 38 William IV St., London WC2
Editors:   Reginald H. Moore; Vera M. Snelling
Formats:   hardcover
Prices:   6/-
Frequency:   quarterly but irregular

Modern Review [1880]

Issues & Index Sources:  1880 – 1884: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 3

The Modern Review [1991]

A journal of commentary on the popular arts ("low culture for high brows"); sometimes nicknamed "The Youngie" in contrast with Richard Ingrams's The Oldie (which was launched soon after).

Issues & Index Sources

  1991 – 1995
  1997 – ?

Publishers

  Julie Burchill & others, London

Editors

  1991 – 1995: Toby Young
  1997: Charlotte Raven

Formats

  tabloid

Frequency

  bimonthly

Modern Romances

Purportedly full of true stories (some serialised across multiple issues), it is likely that much of the content was fictional, although none of it is credited.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1931 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Dell Publishing
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   10c (in 1941)
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Modern Screen

Modern Screen ran for over 50 years featuring articles, pictorials and interviews with movie stars (and later television and music personalities).

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1930? – 1985?
Related Sites:   Wikipedia

Modern Stories [1983]

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1983: Fictionmags Website
Editors:   Lewis Shiner
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $2.00
Pagecounts:   24pp


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