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Miracle, Science and Fantasy Stories

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr/May-1931 – Jun/Jul-1931: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Good Story Magazines (Harold Hersey)
Editors:   Douglas Dold
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   144pp (last issue 128pp)
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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The Mirror of Literature

One of the earliest popular papers for the "working man"; first issue sold 150,000 and circulation settled at 80,000.

Issues & Index Sources

  2-Nov-1823 – 13-Jun-1847
  Jul-1847 – 3-Dec-1849, as The Mirror
  Jan-1850 – Jun-1850, as The London Review

Publishers

  John Limbird

Editors

  Thomas Byerly, P.B. St John,

Formats

  tabloid

Prices

  2d

Frequency

  weekly till 13-Jun-1847; then monthly

Sources

  BritLit2 (which says 1822 - 1849)

Mirth: A Miscellany of Wit and Humour

Total Issues: 12

Authors include William Archer, W.S. Gilbert, F. Anstey, James Robinson Planche.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1877 – Oct-1878
Publishers:   Tinsley's
Editors:   H.J. Byron
Frequency:   monthly

Mirth and Irony (fnz)

Fanzine including fiction by Jack Chalker.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s
Publishers:   Thomas B. Haughey, Lanfover Hills, Maryland
Editors:   Thomas B. Haughey

Misanthrope

Total Issues: 1

Misanthrope dealt with the dark underbelly of society and the horrors and perversions one would expect to find there. The first issue came out at the end of 1997 -- just in time for that Christmas stocking! There was a second issue planned, but as often happens with these things, it never eventuated.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1997: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Fiendish Press
Editors:   Chris A. Masters
Formats:   A4
Prices:   A$5.00
Pagecounts:   48pp
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Miss 1929/1930

Total Issues: 13?

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1929 – Dec-1929, as Miss 1929: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Jan-1930 – Apr-1930, as Miss 1930

Publishers

  Clayton Magazines

Formats

  large pulp

Frequency

  monthly?

The Missionary Juvenile and Illustrated Missionary News for Young People

Total Issues: 44

Issues & Index Sources:  1-May-1880 – 1-Dec-1883
Publishers:   (?), London
Frequency:   monthly

Mississippi Review

Publishes many stories and poems including additional ones on its website. Had special Cyberpunk issue (Vol.16 no. 2/3) ed by Larry McCaffery with William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Timothy Leary. Other authors include Joyce Carol Oates, Kathy Acker, Paul Auster, Amy Clampitt, Paul Hoover, etc. Vol.21 No.3 was special British issue with Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Roddy Doyle, Will Self, Iain Sinclair. There was also a special short story issue (Vol. 21 No.1/2) with Margaret Atwood, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Thom Jones, Susan Minot, etc. Circulation 2,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1971 – present: Miller/Contento (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, Box 5144, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5144 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.mississippireview.com
Editors:   Frederick Barthelme (in 1998 - 2002)
Email Address:   rief@netdoor.com
Formats:   large digest
Frequency:   twice-yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Miss Leslie's Magazine

see under Arthur's Ladies' Magazine

The Missouri Review

Their simple mission: to discover and nurture the most talented new writers of prose and poetry in America and to showcase their work in a beautifully designed journal. Vol.7 #2 (1984) was a special all-sf issue. See Best of Missouri Review ed. Morgan Speer (1991). Circulation 7,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1978 – present: Miller/Contento (sample issue only)
Publishers:   University of Missouri Press, 1507 Hillcrest Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.missourireview.org (or www.missouri.edu/~moreview/index.html)
Editors:   Morgan Speer (in 1998 - 2002; or Speer Morgan)
Frequency:   thrice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Mr.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Mr. Magazines, Inc.

Mr. America

Total Issues: 6+

Continued after August 1953 as a body-building magazine with no fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1953 – Aug-1953
Publishers:   Weider Publications
Sources:   MansWorld

The Mixture

Christmas supplement to "The Bee", the in-house magazine of Boots Pure Drug Co. Published a lot of fiction by Boots employees.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Boots Pure Drug Co., Station Street, Nottingham
Editors:   J.H. Davis
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   72pp
Frequency:   annual

Mizpah Novels

Total Issues: 154

#1 (Apr-1919) is "Snubbed By the Mill"

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1919 – 25-Mar-1922

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Frequency

  Apr-1919 – Jul-1919: monthly
  9-Aug-1919 – 25-Mar-1922: weekly

M'lle New York

A magazine of highly active commentary about literature and the arts; mostly non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug-1895 – Apr-1896
  Nov-1898 – 1899

Publishers

  Vance Thompson; assisted by James Huneker

Editors

  Vance Thompson

Formats

  little magazine

Frequency

  fortnightly

Mobius

Likes fiction and poetry that explores social change and is innovative. Circulation 1,500.

Issues & Index Sources:  1989 – present
Publishers:   Mobius, Madison, WI
Editors:   Fred Schepartz
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   quarterly

Mobs

Total Issues: 2

One of several gangster pulps published by Harold B. Hersey. However, by the time it was published, in 1930, public interest in gangsters was fading and it only lasted for 2 issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun/Jul-1930 – Aug-1930: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Good Story Magazine (Harold Hersey)
Editors:   W. M. Clayton
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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