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The Olio: or Museum of Entertainment

Known for its "racy" stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  12-Jan-1828 – 20-Jul-1833
Frequency:   weekly

Oliver Optic's Magazine

Total Issues: 269

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1867 – Dec-1875: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Lee & Shepard, Boston
Editors:   Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams)
Formats:   7" x 10"
Prices:   $3.00 per year
Pagecounts:   80pp
Frequency:   monthly

Olive Wadsley's Weekly

Story and fashion weekly.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1924 – ?
Prices:   2d
Frequency:   weekly

Omega Science Digest

Total Issues: 37

The Australian edition of Science Digest. The US edition is strictly a non-fiction magazine, but the Australian edition included original fiction as a regular part of every issue and thus more closely resembled Omni.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan/Feb-1981 – Jan/Feb-1987: Miller/Contento (only fiction indexed)
Publishers:   Fairfax Magazines, Sydney, Australia
Editors:   Philip Gore
Formats:   A4 slick
Prices:   AS2.50
Pagecounts:   132pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly

Omicron

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1979: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Omicron Publications, Victoria, Australia.

Omni

Total Issues: 200

High gloss popular science magazine which regularly ran science fiction

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1978 – Winter 1995: Miller/Contento (only fiction indexed)

Publishers

  Omni Publications (Bob Guccione)

Editors

  Oct-1978 – Dec-1979: Ben Bova
  Jan-1980 – Sep-1981: Robert Sheckley
  Oct-1981 – Winter 1995: Ellen Datlow

Formats

  Slick

Frequency

  monthly

Omnibook Magazine

Contained "authorized abridgements of current best-selling books".

Title variations:
  Dec-1938 - Feb-1939, Omnibook; selected current books in abridged editions
  Mar-1939 - Nov-1939, Omnibook magazine; select current literature in abridged form
  Dec-1939 - May-1950, Omnibook magazine; authorized abridgements of current best-sellers
  Jun-1950 - end, Omnibook Best-Seller Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1938 – 1957?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Omnibook Inc., 76 Ninth Avenue, New York
Editors:   Maxwell M. Geffen & Victor W. Knauth
Formats:   5.4" x 7.75"
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   194pp (in 1948); 162pp (in 1949); 145pp (in 1950)
Frequency:   monthly
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Omni (UK) [1978]

British reprint issue of Omni

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1978 – Feb-1980
Formats:   Slick
Frequency:   monthly

Omni (UK) [1984]

 see under UK Omni

Once a Month [1861]

Total Issues: 17

Subtitled "original tales by the most popular authors"

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1861 – Jan-1863
Frequency:   monthly

Once a Month [1868]

Total Issues: 33

Subtitled "a monthly magazine of general and amusing literature".

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1868 – Dec-1869
  Jan-1871
  Mar-1872 – Aug-1873

Editors

  1872 – 1873: Joseph Collins

Frequency

  monthly

Once a Week [1859]

Published serials as well as complete stories, some longer than average. Authors include Charles Reade ("The Cloister and the Hearth" 1859 as "A Good Fight"), George Meredith, George Du Maurier. Revamped as five different series during this period.

Issues & Index Sources

  2-Jul-1859 – May-1879: Index to Periodical Literature (1859 - 1874 only)

Publishers

  1859 – ?: Bradbury & Evans
  ? – 1873: James Rice
  1873 – 1879: George Manville Fenn

Editors

  1859 – 1865: Samuel Lucas
  1865 – 1867: Edward Walford
  Jan-1868 – Jul-1869: E.S. Dallas
  1869 – 1873: Mark Lemon
  1873 – 1879: George Manville Fenn

Formats

  tabloid but heavily illustrated

Prices

  6d

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  BritLit3

Once a Week [1871]

Primarily a fashion magazine that ran some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  4-Mar-1871 – 11-Nov-1871

#superseded by Frank Leslie's Ladies' Journal

Publishers

  Frank Leslie

Editors

  Mrs Squier

Frequency

  weekly

Once a Week [1884]
Issues & Index Sources:  1884 – 1887
Editors:   Edgar Lee
Frequency:   weekly

Once-a-Week [1888]

 see also under Collier's Weekly

One

A literary magazine. #6 (1974) was a special all-SF issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1974: Miller/Contento (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Andarth Interrelated Projects, Highland Park, NJ

One at a Time Library

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  1888
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Frequency:   monthly

One Story

Total Issues: 35 (to Mar-2004)

A literary magazine that contains, simply, one story.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-2002 – present: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Maribeth Batcha, PO Box 1326, New York, NY 10156
Website:   www.one-story.com
Editors:   Hannah Tinti
Frequency:   Every three weeks
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

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