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The New York Mercury

Formats:   tabloid story paper
Frequency:   weekly

The New York Mirror

Total Issues: 364?

A weekly gazette of literature and the fine arts.

Issues & Index Sources:  2-Aug-1823 – 3-Jul-1860
Publishers:   G.P. Morris, NY
Editors:   S, Woodworth to 24-Jul-1824, then G.P. Morris
Frequency:   weekly

New York Nights

Issues & Index Sources

  Summer 1933 – Jun-1934: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Dec-1935 – Mar-1937: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Summer 1933 – Jun-1934: Bow-Man Publishing Corp., 115 West 27th St., New York City
  Dec-1935 – Mar-1937: H.M. Publishing Co.

Formats

  saddle-stitched pulp

Sources

  UltGuide, Uncovered
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The New York Review of Books

Issues & Index Sources:  1963 – ?
Frequency:   fortnightly?

The New York Saturday (Star) Journal

see under Saturday Journal

New York Stories

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov/Dec-1931 – Apr-1932: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Headquarters Publishing (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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New York Stories [1998]

Total Issues: 8 (to Oct-2002)

Each issue has six or seven stories plus a New York City non-fiction piece. Has published fiction by John Updike.

Issues & Index Sources:  1998 – Fall 2006
Publishers:   La Guardia Community College/CUNY, 31-10 Thomson Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101 (in 2000 - 2002)
Editors:   Michael Blaine (in 2000); Daniel Caplice Lynch (in 2002)
Frequency:   3 issues per year
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The New York Times Magazine

Sunday supplement to the New York Times newspaper; publishes fiction, e.g. "Crossing the Line" by Russell Banks (20 Dec-1992).

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Website:   www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/
Frequency:   weekly

The New York Weekly

Initially most of the fiction was by Francis Smith. Soon established some key writers, especially Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay, May Agnes Fleming, Edward S. Ellis, Edward Judson and Prentiss Ingraham (both "Ned Buntline"), John Coryell. Published the first stories featuring Buffalo Bill (23-Dec-1869) and Nick Carter (18-Sep-1886).

Note: originally The Weekly Universe (1846 - 1854) published by Amos Williamson. Williamson retitled it The New York Weekly Dispatch in 1855 and sold it to his employees Messrs Street & Smith; succeeded by Smith's Magazine: overview in Dime Novel Round-Up #200 (May-1949).

Issues & Index Sources

  13-Mar-1858 – 13-Aug-1910: Nick Carter Stories and Other Series: Part II (Nick Carter stories only)
  20-Aug-1910 – 27-Nov-1915, as New York Weekly Welcome: Nick Carter Stories and Other Series: Part II (Nick Carter stories only)

Publishers

  Street & Smith (officially from 21-May-1859)

Editors

  1858 – 1869?: Francis Smith
  1869? – ?: Thomas C. Glynn

Formats

  large tabloid story-paper

Pagecounts

  8pp

Frequency

  weekly

The New York Weekly Magazine of Popular Literature, Science, and Art

Total Issues: 65

This appears to have been a different periodical from the Street & Smith one of similar title, above; it serialized Jules Verne's "A Trip to the Moon" (26-Jan-1867 - 30-Mar-1867), which was the first English-language appearance of any of his novels. Other authors include Mrs. Henry Wood, Mary E. Braddon, George A. Sala, Thomas W. Speight.

Issues & Index Sources

  6-Jan-1866 – 30-Mar-1867

Publishers

  6-Jan-1866 – 5-May-1866: O. H. Bailey & Co, New York, NY
  12-May-1866 – 22-Dec-1866: Frederic H. Hill, New York, NY
  29-Dec-1866 – 30-Mar-1867: Alfred Gage & Co., New York, NY

Formats

  5.75" x 9.5" (trimmed - probably 6" x 10") double columns per page.

Prices

  10c

Frequency

  weekly

The New York Weekly Story Teller

Total Issues: 67

Generally regarded as "the Ladies paper par excellence" and reputedly sold in 100,000s.

Issues & Index Sources:  22-Nov-1875 – 26-Feb-1877
Publishers:   Norman L. Munro, NY
Formats:   mid-tabloid (13^12" x 19")
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

New Youths' Magazine

Total Issues: 10

"A pirate of the Youth's Magazine." (W.O.G. Lofts) "Compiled from the most admired writers, issued each month stories and articles rather of an educational nature." (W.O.G. Lofts)

Issues & Index Sources:  1824
Publishers:   W. Welton (Note: Gifford gives Walton and elsewhere Lofts gives Wetton)
Formats:   pocket size
Frequency:   monthly

Next Phase

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1990s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Phantom Press, New Haven, CT
Editors:   Kimberly Means
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $3.00

Nexus [1980]

Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  1980: Miller/Contento

Nexus [1991]

Total Issues: 3

Small press glossy sf magazine blending fiction and articles.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1991 – #3, 1993: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   SF Nexus, Brighton
Editors:   Paul Brazier
Formats:   A4 glossy
Prices:   £2.95
Pagecounts:   50pp

NFG

Total Issues: 6 (to Dec-2005)

Canadian literary magazine with SF, fantasy and horror stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  2003 – present: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   NFG Media, Sheppard Centre, P.O. Box 43112, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M2N 6N1
Website:   www.nfg.ca
Editors:   Shar O'Brien
Prices:   $4.00
Pagecounts:   88
Frequency:   tri-annual

Nick Carter Detective Library

see under Nick Carter Library (US)

Nick Carter Detective Magazine

see under Nick Carter Magazine

Nick Carter Detective Weekly

Relaunched as a pulp, Detective Story Magazine, 1915.

Issues & Index Sources:  1891 – 1915
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Frequency:   weekly

Nick Carter Library (UK)

Total Issues: 118

US reprints.

Issues & Index Sources:  1918 – 1920
Publishers:   Newnes
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   monthly?


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