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Mobs and Gangs

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1977 – ?
Publishers:   Countrywide Publications, 150 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, before 1974, then 257 Park Ave. South, New York, NY
Frequency:   bimonthly

Mobsters

Total Issues: 3

Although published for only three issues, Mobsters was an important traditional pulp magazine with "stories of the fight against the Underworld". The covers were similar to the paperback books that began in this period to crowd out the magazines.

A cover was produced for the fourth issue identifying two of the stories that would have appeared therein.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1952 – Apr-1953: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Standard Magazines, N.Y.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Model Airplane News

Mainly a model airplane magazine but often featuring an aviation story in the early years.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1929 – Dec-1929
  Jan-1930 – Dec-1930, as Junior Mechanics and Model Airplane News
  Jan-1931 – Aug-1932, as Model Airplane News and Junior Mechanics
  Sep-1932 – Mar-1935, as Universal Model Airplane News
  Apr-1935 – present, as Model Airplane News

Publishers

  Jul-1929 – Aug-1932: Model Airplane News Pub. Corp, Dunellen, N.J.
  Sep-1932 – Mar-1935: Jay Pub. Co, Springfield, Mass.
  Apr-1935 – present: Air Age, Inc., Darien, Conn.

Website

  www.modelairplanenews.com

Frequency

  monthly
 

Modern Adventuress

See under Scarlet Adventuress

Modern Art & Stories

A unique combination of pictures, illustrations and text - Wonderful Deco-era 32 pages of tasteful period nude photographs and risque stories....Mostly Full Page layouts, tinted monochrome.... Eventually published some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  early 1930s
Publishers:   Culture Publications, Wilmington, Delaware
Formats:   8½" x 11½"

The Modern Boy

Total Issues: 523+87=610

Authors include W.E. Johns, Murray Roberts, merges with Boy's Cinema. Incorporates: Chums from 9-Jul-1932

Issues & Index Sources

  11-Feb-1928 – 12-Feb-1938
  19-Feb-1938 – 14-Oct-1939

#incorporated into Boy's Cinema

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Charles Boff (Assistant Editor); Fred Lidstone (Assistant Editor)

Formats

  tabloid; later issues smaller

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly (every Saturday)

Modern Detective (1898)

True crime magazine that occasionally published some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1890s

Modern Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 11 (at least)

Australian digest mainly printing original stories by Australian authors, although two of the issues reprinted from stories US pulp magazines.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1954: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: any issues after #11)
Publishers:   Action Comics, 14 Bond Street, Sydney
Prices:   1/-
Sources:   AustCmFc
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Modern Electrics

A popular science magazine which regularly published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1911 – Feb-1913: Miller/Contento (only fiction indexed)
Publishers:   Gernsback
Formats:   bedsheet
Related Sites:   MagazineArt
Sources:   UltGuide
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Modern Fairy Tales

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1938 – in 1940s
Publishers:   Popular Fiction; Phoenix; Anglo-American
Formats:   pocket
Pagecounts:   20pp

Modern Girl

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1938 – ?
Publishers:   Coudry
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   monthly

Modern Girl Book (Magazine)

Note that title given as "Modern Girl Book Magazine" on cover and "Modern Girl Book" on contents page.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1939 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Lex Publications, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York
Formats:   11.5" x 8.5"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   60pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly

Modern Girl Stories

see under Live Girl Stories

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


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