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The Penny Pictorial Magazine

Total Issues: 1795+71=1866

Originally aimed at a younger market and of interest to boys' story-paper collectors as it reprinted many Sexton Blake stories from the Union Jack. Apart from Sexton Blake (1907 - 1913), the paper included a great many other detectives, including Derwent Duff by Cecil Hayter, Marcus Bland by Addington Symonds, Detective X. Crook by Jefferson Farjeon and Inch of the Yard by George Goodchild.

Issues & Index Sources

10-Jun-1899 – 23-Jun-1922:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

30-Jun-1922 – 6-Nov-1926, as Pictorial Magazine:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

13-Nov-1926 – 28-Oct-1933, as Pictorial Weekly:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

4-Nov-1933 – 9-Mar-1935, as Penny Pictorial

Publishers

Harmsworth

Editors

1899 – 1905: Charles Sisley
Noel Wood-Smith

Prices

1d

Frequency

weekly

The Penny Popular

Total Issues: 286+628=914

Boys' story-paper. Reprinted many Sexton Blake stories from the Union Jack. Ran Charles Hamilton's school and adventure stories (under various pen names). Companion to The Penny Wonder.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1912 – Mar-1918

#incorporated into The Boys' Friend

Jan-1919 – 1920

Aug-1920 – Feb-1931, as The Popular

#becomes The Ranger

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, Fleetway House

Editors

1916 – 1918: R. T. Eves
Arthur Aldcroft [Assistant Editor]

Prices

1d; 1½d; 2d from (1922)

Pagecounts

32pp; 16pp; 20pp from Oct-1919; 28pp from #161 (1922?)

Frequency

weekly (every Friday; Tuesday from 1920s)

The Penny Story-Teller & Popular Magazine

Total Issues: 248

The first 1d illustrated story paper.

Issues & Index Sources

1-Aug-1832 – 21-Sep-1836:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only; may have continued to 31-Dec-1840)

Publishers

  #1, 183? – #10, 183?: William Stevens Ltd., Family Herald Press, London WC
  #11, 183? – #24, 183?: William Howden
  #25, 183? – #130, 183?: Charles Penny
  #131, 183? – #248, 183?: S. Kay

Formats

quarto

Prices

1d

Pagecounts

46pp

Frequency

weekly

The Penny Sunday Times and People's Police Gazette

Total Issues: 278

Consisted entirely of fiction and fabricated police reports in order to by-pass the stamp duty on newspapers. Succeeded because of its many Dickens imitations like "The Life and Adventures of Martin Puzzlewhit" by Bos (1843).

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1841 – 3-Jan-1847

Publishers:   Edward Lloyd
Formats:   story paper
Frequency:   weekly

The Penny Wonder

Boys' story-paper. Ran more sinister stories than its companion, The Penny Wonder, including detective and gothic stories. Has been called 'curiously old-fashioned'.

Issues & Index Sources: 1912 – ?

Publishers: Harmsworth
Frequency: weekly

Penthouse

In the Playboy mould, it has published fiction, though less frequently and with less distinction than the magazine it emulates.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1969 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Bob Guccione
Website:   www.penthouse.com
Formats:   slick men's magazine
Frequency:   monthly



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Penthouse (UK)

Separate British edition of US magazine. Regularly publishes fiction. For some years Graham Masterton was fiction editor.

Issues & Index Sources: 1965 – present

Publishers: Bob Guccione
Formats: slick men's magazine

The People's Friend

Total Issues: 7044 (to 22-Jan-2005)

A coelacanth of the British periodical publishing industry, a 19th-century story paper which is still going as a popular weekly of light romances.

Note that issues seem to start from #8, 4-Aug-1869.

Issues & Index Sources: 14-Jun-1869 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   John Leng, Dundee; later D.C. Thomson
Editors:   currently Sinclair Matheson
Formats:   story paper
Frequency:   weekly

The People's Friend Story Library

"50,000 - 55,000-word family and romantic stories aimed at 30+ age group".

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1970 – present

Publishers:   D. C. Thomson, Dundee
Formats:   small booklet, 132pp
Frequency:   twice-monthly

People's Home Journal

Issues & Index Sources: in 1880s – in 1920s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers: F.M. Lupton

The People's Journal [1846]

Issues & Index Sources

3-Jan-1846 – Jul-1849:

Index to Periodical Literature

Jul-1849 – Jun-1851, as People's and Howitt's Journal:

Index to Periodical Literature

(incorporates Howitt's Journal)

Editors

John Saunders, William Howitt

Formats

tabloid

Frequency

weekly

The People's Journal [1858]

A story paper with many serials and short stories, Scottish in flavour.

Issues & Index Sources: 2-Jan-1858 – 1990

Publishers:   John Leng, Dundee, later D. C. Thomson
Formats:   small tabloid
Prices:   1½d
Frequency:   weekly

People's Literary Companion

Story-paper; contributors include Anne S. Stephens, William Eyster, Prentiss Ingraham.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1869 – Nov-1907

Publishers

E.C. Allen, Augusta, Maine

Formats

large tabloid story paper

Prices

5c

Pagecounts

8pp (16pp last few issues)

Frequency

  Oct-1869 – Sep-1871: monthly
  Oct-1871 – 28-May-1881: weekly
  Jun-1881 – Nov-1907: monthly

People's Magazine

Total Issues: 82+14+39+78+24+42=279

Ran Frank L. Packard's "Jimmy Dale" stories; authors include H. Bedford-Jones, J. Allan Dunn, Harold Lamb, Achmed Abdullah, Perley Poore Sheehan, George Allan England, William Merriam Rouse.

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1906 – Apr-1913:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

May-1913 – Jun-1914, as People's Ideal Fiction Magazine:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Jul-1914 – Sep-1917, as People's:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

10-Aug-1917 – 25-Nov-1921, as People's Favorite Magazine:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

10-Dec-1921 – 25-Nov-1922, as People's Story Magazine:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

10-Dec-1922 – 15-Aug-1924, as People's:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

#superseded by Complete Stories

Publishers

Street & Smith

Editors

  1906 – ?: Archibald L. Sessions
  1909 – 1910: John W. Harding
  ?: Gardner Hunting
  ?: Eugene Clancy

Formats

Jul-1906 – Aug-1919: standard pulp
Sep-1919 – 15-Aug-1924: letter-size, coated stock

Prices

  1906 – 1908: 10c
  1908 – 11-Aug-1918: 15c
  25-Aug-1918 – 15-Aug-1924: 20c

Pagecounts

192pp

Frequency

monthly, switched to twice-monthly 10-Aug-1917

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide

The People's Penny Stories

Total Issues: 205

Mostly women's-orientated fiction, usually romantic or mystery. Mostly a serial episode each issue plus one or two stories; title contracted to People's Stories in 1909 (though cover showed it as People's 1d Stories).

Issues & Index Sources

4-May-1906 – 1-Apr-1910

8-Apr-1910 – ?, as My Weekly

Publishers

John Leng, London

Formats

digest

Prices

1d

Pagecounts

64pp

Frequency

weekly

The People's Periodical and Family Library

Total Issues: 52

Serialised Prest's notorious "The String of Pearls" about Sweeny Todd.

Issues & Index Sources: 1846 – 1847

Publishers:   Edward Lloyd, London
Formats:   tabloid story paper
Frequency:   weekly