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Plume & Sword

Student literary magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1960 – ?:

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   University of Virginia
Editors:   Thomas T. Taylor
Formats:   digest
Prices:   30c
Pagecounts:   28pp
Frequency:   monthly (except Jun-Sep)

Pocket Budget Library

Total Issues: 17?

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1903 – Apr-1904:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: all after #8)

Publishers: James Henderson

Pocket Budget Stories of Short and Serial Stories

Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources

2-May-1903 – 11-Jul-1903

#becomes Pocket Budget Library

Publishers

James Henderson

Frequency

weekly

Pocket Detective Magazine [1936]

Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1936 – Oct-1937:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Editors:   Robert Arthur
Formats:   Pocketbook
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Pocket Detective Magazine [1950]

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1950 – Nov-1950:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Trojan Magazines
Editors:   Adolphe Barreaux
Formats:   Pocketbook
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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Pocket Love Magazine

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources: May-1937 – Nov-1937

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   pocketbook
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

The Pocket Magazine [1818]

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1818 – Jun-1824

Jul-1824 – Dec-1826, as Arliss' Pocket Magazine

Jan-1827 – 1833, as The Pocket Magazine

Frequency

monthly

Pocket Magazine [1895]

Featured short stories plus humorous quips.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1895 – Dec-1901:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

#merges with Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly

Publishers

Frederick A. Stokes, NY

Editors

Irving Bacheller (to Jun-1898), then Abbott Frederic.

Formats

pocketbook

Prices

10c

Pagecounts

125pp

Frequency

monthly to Jun-1898, then bi-monthly

The Pocket Magazine [1922]

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: 26-Aug-1922:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   United Press Ltd., St. Bride's House, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London EC4
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   80pp

The Pocket Magazine [1930]

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1930

Publishers:   Gilbert Patten Corporation
Formats:   pocketbook
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Pocket Man

Total Issues: 230+

Offshoot from Man with the same mix of pin-ups, cartoons, features and fiction, it was effectively a replacement for Man Junior when that title shifted to full-size format.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1954 – 1973?

Publishers:   K.G. Murray, Sydney
Formats:   digest
Related Sites:   www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/man.html

Pocket Reader Series

Total Issues: 31?

A series of small paperbacks that are variously listed as anthologies or magazines. Contents of issues varied between detective, romance and westerns, at least. The detective issues were entitled Detective Tales and mainly reprinted stories from the Popular Publications magazine of the same name and Dime Detective, leading it to be listed sometimes as a British Reprint Edition of the former magazine.

The issues ran from #101 to #130 at least, and are as follows:
101, Detective Tales, 1947?
102, Western Stories, nd
103, Romance Story, nd
104, Detective Tales, 1948
105, Western Stories, 1948
106, Romance Story, 1948
107, Detective Tales, 1948
108, Western Stories, 1948
109, Romance Stories, 1948
110, Detective Tales, 1948
111, Western Stories, 1948
112, Romance Stories, 1948
113, Detective Tales, 1949
114, Western Stories, 1949
115, Romance Stories, 1949
116, Western Stories, 1949
117, Detective Tales, 1949
118, Western Stories, 1949
119, Detective Tales, 1949
120, Western Stories, 1949
121, Romance Stories, 1949
122, Western Stories, 1950?
123, Detective Tales, 1950
124, Western Stories, 1950
125, Detective Tales, 1950
126, Western Stories, 1950
127, Romance Stories, 1950
128, Detective Tales, 1950
129, Western Stories, 1950?
130, Romance Stories, 1950?

Issues & Index Sources: 1947 – 1950?:	Monthly Murders	(Missing: #112, #115, #120, #121)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: #112, #115, #120, #121)

Publishers:   T.V. Boardman, 14 Cockspur St., London, SW1
Editors:   Tom Boardman
Formats:   small digest (4" x 5.5") for #101 - #112; then digest (4.75" x 6.75")
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   96pp (#101 - #112); 64pp (#113 - #122); 96pp (#123 - #130)
Sources:   CookMDE



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Pocket Series

Total Issues: 50

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers: Pocket Editions
Formats: pocket library

Pocket Sketch

Men's humour magazine that published several pieces of fiction in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1940 – ?

Formats:   9" x 6"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   94pp

Pocket Western Magazine [1937]

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1937 – Oct-1937:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, DinWest

Pocket Western Magazine [1950]

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1950 – Nov-1950:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: Nov-1950)

Publishers:   Trojan Magazines
Formats:   Pocketbook
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, DinWest