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Marspen Series

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1891
Publishers:   Marks & Spencer

The Martian Wave

Previously a webzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-2010 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Sam's Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Website:   www.samsdotpublishing.com/purchasecenter/magazines.htm
Editors:   J. Alan Erwine
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $9.00
Frequency:   annual

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#superseded by Sport and Adventure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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Marvel Stories

see under Marvel Science Stories

Marvel Tales (fnz) [1934]

Total Issues: 5

Amateur magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1934 – Summer 1935: Miller/Contento
Sources:   UltGuide
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Marvel Tales [1939]

see under Marvel Science Stories

Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine

Total Issues: 7

Published by Family Circle, Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine was very mainstream, very slick, and very glossy. It was filled with trivia, lists, reviews, short interviews and even found room for some good stories. Its publishing schedule was sporadic at best, because it was published to fill the same slots as the traditional baking, knitting, etc., magazines which made up Family Circle "special projects" - this also explained the unusual volume numbering. However, it never really found a niche and died after seven issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  1996 – Summer 2000: Mystery Short Fiction
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Gruner+Jahr USA Publishing
Editors:   Kathryne V. Sagan
Formats:   quarto slick
Prices:   $3.99 (now $5.99)
Pagecounts:   100pp
Frequency:   twice yearly
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Mascot

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  1949
Publishers:   Martin & Reid
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   monthly

Mask Detective

Total Issues: 2

British reprint edition of Dime Mystery Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr/May-1960 – Jun/Jul-1960: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Atlas Publishing & Distributing
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1/-
Frequency:   bi-monthly
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The Masked Detective

Total Issues: 12

The Masked Detective was launched in 1940 at the height of the popularity of the "pulp hero" magazines, and each issue featured a novel about Rex Parker, the "masked detective", as well as a handful of short stories and departments. It appeared on a quarterly basis but only lasted 12 issues before becoming a casualty of the paper shortages of World War II.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1940 – Spring 1943: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Better Publications
Editors:   Leo Margulies
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Masked Rider Western Magazine

Total Issues: 100

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1934 – Apr-1953: Pulp Magazine Index 4 (incomplete)
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Apr-1934 – Jun-1937: Ranger Publications
  Mar-1938 – Apr-1953: Standard Magazines

Editors

  Eugene A. Clancy; G.B. Farnum (from Nov-1939)

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  15c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  Apr-1934 – Jun-1937: irregular
  Mar-1938 – Jun-1943: bi-monthly
  Summer 1944 – Jun-1945: quarterly
  Jul-1945 – Apr-1950: bi-monthly
  Summer 1950 – Fall 1950: quarterly
  1951 – Apr-1953: bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Masked Rider Western (Canada)

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Publication Enterprises Limited, Toronto; Better Publications of Canada, Ltd.
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11
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Masque

Subtitled "A New Queer Literary and Art Magazine".

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1993 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   LGBTCRC, P.O. Box 18265, Stanford, California 94309
Website:   www.stanford.edu/group/masque/
Frequency:   three times a year
Sources:   OOV

Masque Noir

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-2000 – 2003?: Miller/Contento (Missing: #1, #7)
Publishers:   Spit Junction, NSW, Australia
Editors:   Rod Marsden
Formats:   A4
Prices:   A$5.00
Pagecounts:   56pp
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