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MacKill's Mystery Magazine (US)

Total Issues: 19?

US reprint edition of MacKill's Mystery Magazine (US). Initially these were just the UK editions with an overprinted price, but no issue was published in March 1953 and from April 1953 on there were specific US editions with the same volume/issue number but different cover dates (and, occasionally, different cover art).

The title was changed on the cover only to MacKill's for the last five issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1952? – Aug-1954: Crime Fiction Index
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly (missing Mar-1953, Aug-1953)
Sources:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Mack's Pocket Detective Stories Magazine

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1930: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Pocket Magazine Co., N.Y.
Formats:   digest
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Maclean's

Began as a mainly reprint publication, but soon featured new fiction by Canadian writers (e.g. Robert W. Service's "The Trail of '98" was serialized, 1911); authors included Gilbert Parker, Arthur Stringer, Alan Sullivan, Stephen Leacock, Thomas Head Raddall; it also became an important market for American fiction writers in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s; US authors included Talbot Mundy, Stephen Vincent Benet, Ray Bradbury.

Issues & Index Sources

  1896 – Feb-1911, as The Busy Man's Magazine: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Mar-1911 – present, as Maclean's: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  John Bayne Maclean, Toronto

Website

  www.macleans.ca

Editors

  Oct-1914 – 1920: Thomas Bertram Costain
  1920 – 1926: J. Vernon Mackenzie
  1926 – ?: H. Napier Moore

Formats

  standard format, becoming a big slick in 1914

Frequency

  monthly, becoming fortnightly in the 1920s, then weekly?

Macmillan's Magazine

Total Issues: 546

The first of the literary shilling monthlies; though it never quite matched The Cornhill in the quality of its fiction it still published such memorable serials as "The Water-Babies" Kingsley (1862-3), "The Portrait of a Lady" James (1880-1), "The Woodlanders" Hardy (1886 - 1887). Other authors include R.D. Blackmore, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Margaret Oliphant, W. Clark Russell, Charlotte M. Yonge.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1859 – Oct-1907: Index to Periodical Literature (Poole to 1906 only, Well1 to 1900 only)
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 1

Publishers

  Macmillan, London

Editors

  Nov-1859 – Apr-1868: David Masson
  May-1868 – Apr-1883: George Grove
  May-1883 – Sep-1885: John Morley
  Oct-1885 – Oct-1907: Mowbray Morris

Formats

  standard?

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  British Literary Magazines Vol. 3, The Age of the Storytellers

Mademoiselle

Initially fiction was limited but developed significantly under the fiction editor Marian Ives in the 1940s. Authors include Katherine Anne Porter, Elizabeth Bowen, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Marcel Ayme, Ray Bradbury, Robert Penn Warren and Truman Capote (first story). Circulation reached 500,000 in 1950s.

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1935 – Nov-2001: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1935 – 1960: Street & Smith
  1960 – Nov-2001: Conde Nast

Website

  www.mlle.com

Editors

  Betsy Blackwell

Formats

  slick

Frequency

  monthly

Madison Magazine

Monthly magazine of Madison, Wisconsin. Has annual short fiction contest with winner published in the August issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   126 S. Franklin Street, Madison, WI 53703 (in 2000)
Website:   www.madisonmagazine.com
Editors:   Brian Howell (in 2000)
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   O. Henry Awards Website (not 2001 or 2002)

The Madison Review

Issues & Index Sources:  early 1970s – present
Publishers:   University of Wisconsin, 600 North Park Street, Madison, WI 53706 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   mendota.english.wisc.edu/~MadRev/
Editors:   rotating editorship
Frequency:   twice-yearly
Sources:   O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

Maelstrom

Total Issues: 10

Small press science fiction, fantasy & horror magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1987 – Summer 2001: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Sol Publications
Editors:   Malcolm E. Wright
Formats:   A5 (in 2001)
Prices:   £2.40 (in 2001)
Pagecounts:   68pp (in 2001)
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Maelstrom Speculative Fiction

Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources:  199? – 2001: Miller/Contento (Missing: #1, #2)
Publishers:   PO Box 3645, Chatham Drive, Palm Harbor, FL 34684
Website:   maelstromsf.tripod.com
Editors:   Dave Felts
Formats:   7" x 8½"
Prices:   $3.00
Pagecounts:   32
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia
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The Mag!

"Short features... short fiction".

Issues & Index Sources:  1995 – ?
Publishers:   Specialist Publications, Bristol
Editors:   Karen Ellison
Frequency:   quarterly

Magabook [1963]

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1963 – #3, 1965: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Galaxy Publishing Co., New York.
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Mag-a-Book [1982]

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1982 – #26, 1982: Fictionmags Website (selected issues only)
Miller/Contento
Publishers:   SABCO Communications, New York.

Magazine for Boys

Listed by Lofts as a title that ran 1862-1889, but a subsequent note (p19) explains that this is a combination by Lofts of the run of {Every Boys' Magazine} and its subsequent title changes. see under Every Boy's Magazine (UK)

Magazine for the Young

Issues & Index Sources:  1842 – 1875
Frequency:   monthly

The Magazine of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  2007 – 2009
Publishers:   Pulp Tales Press
Website:   www.angelfire.com/film/locationbooks/magazines.htm
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $14.95
Pagecounts:   114pp
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Total Issues: 679 (to Sep-2009)

Issues & Index Sources

  Fall 1949, as The Magazine of Fantasy: Miller/Contento
  Winter 1950 – present, as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Fall 1949 – Sep-2000: Mercury Press (though under the Fantasy House subsidiary until Feb-1958)
  Oct-2000 – present: Spilogale, Inc.

Website

  www.sfsite.com/fsf/

Editors

  Fall 1949 – Aug-1954: Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas
  Sep-1954 – Aug-1958: Anthony Boucher
  Sep-1958 – Mar-1962: Robert P. Mills
  Apr-1962 – Nov-1964: Avram Davidson
  Dec-1964 – Dec-1965: Joseph Ferman
  Jan-1966 – Jun-1991: Edward L. Ferman
  Jul-1991 – May-1997: Kristine Rusch
  Jun-1997 – present: Gordon Van Gelder

Formats

  digest

Pagecounts

  160pp (since Oct 1972)
  Apr/May-2009 – present: 260pp

Frequency

  Fall 1949 – Fall 1950: quarterly
  Dec-1950 – Jun-1952: bi-monthly
  Aug-1952 – Dec-1990: monthly
  Jan-1991 – Mar-2009: 11 issues per year with a combined Oct/Nov issue
  Apr/May-2009 – present: bi-monthly

Related Sites

  Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Sources

  Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Aust)

Total Issues: 14

Australian reprint edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1954 – #14, 1958: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Consolidated Press, Ltd., Sydney, Australia.
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