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On the Spot Detective Tales

see under New All-Action Stories

Oomph Bedtime Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Open City

Total Issues: 16 (to Dec-2002)

Tries to emulate Partisan Review from the 1940s. Has published Cyril Connolly, Jim Thompson. Publishes perhaps 10 stories per year. Circulation 5,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  1990 – present
Publishers:   Open City, 225 Lafayette Street, Suite 1114, New York, NY 10012 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.opencity.org
Editors:   Thomas Beller, Daniel Pinchbeck (in 2000 - 2002)
Email Address:   ocmagazine@aol.com
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   200pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Open Confessions

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  1948?
Publishers:   Scion Ltd.
Prices:   1/3d
Pagecounts:   30pp

The Open Road

Boys magazine encouraging the outdoor life. Ran regular stories.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1919 – May-1925?
  Oct-1925 – Mar-1950, as The Open Road for Boys: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Apr-1950 – Jun-1953, as Open Road: The Young People's Magazine
  Jul-1953 – 1954?, as American Boy and Open Road

Publishers

  Open Road Publications, Illinois

Editors

  in 1940: Clayton H. Ernst

Prices

  in 1940: 10c

Pagecounts

  in 1940: 34pp

Frequency

  monthly

Related Sites

  Wikipedia
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Open Window

Total Issues: 12

An artistic and imaginative "new age" magazine with the emphasis on poetry, illustration, plays and stories. Authors include Lord Dunsany, E.M. Forster, Frank Swinnerton, Katherine Mansfield ("A Fairy Story" Dec-1910).

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1910 – Sep-1911
Publishers:   Locke Ellis, London
Editors:   Vivian Locke Ellis
Formats:   an early "little" magazine (6" x 4.5")
Pagecounts:   65pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   BritLit3

Operation Fantast (fnz)

Total Issues: 17

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1949 – May-1955: Fictionmags Website
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Operator #5

Total Issues: 17+31=48

A character pulp. The lead novels are all SF but the back-up stories almost never are. The novels from June 1936 to March 1938 are sequential and tell the story of the "Purple Invasion." Another sequence, featuring an invasion by the "Yellow Vulture," was begun in May 1939 and had not been resolved when the magazine folded.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1934 – Aug-1935: Miller/Contento
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Sep-1935 – Nov/Dec-1939, as Secret Service Operator #5: Miller/Contento
Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Popular Publications

Editors

  Rogers Terrill with Henry Sperry

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  Apr-1934 – Sep-1935: 128pp
  Oct-1935 – Nov/Dec-1939: 112pp

Frequency

  monthly to Apr-1936; then mostly bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Operator #5 (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Operator #5.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11
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Operator #5 (UK)

see under Secret Service Operator #5 (UK)

Opportunity

A magazine aimed at salesmen that ran some fiction in 1929/1930 at least. Succeeded by "Salesman's Opportunity" which may or may not have run any fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1923 – May-1950: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The Opportunity Publishing Company, 750 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Editors:   James R. Quirk
Formats:   13.5" x 9.5" slick
Prices:   10c

Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life

The house organ of the Urban League of Chicago "A journal of Negro life that would devote itself religiously to an interpretation of the social problems of the Negro population." From 1924 launched a literary competition to foster creative expression among young black writers, and to expose that writing to an audience outside of the African American community.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1923 – Winter 1949

Publishers

  National Urban League, NY

Editors

  Jan-1923 – Sep-1928: Charles Spurgeon Johnson
  Oct-1928 – Jan-1945: Elmer Anderson Carter
  Jan-1945 – Jun-1947: Madeline L. Aldridge
  Jul-1947 – Jan-1949: Dutton Ferguson

Formats

  tabloid?

Pagecounts

  around 32pp

Frequency

  Jan-1923 – Dec-1944: monthly
  Jan-1945 – Summer 1948: quarterly
  Winter 1949: Special Issue

Opus Quarterly

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1987 – Winter 1988: Miller/Contento

The Oracle

Total Issues: 1322

"A story paper for women," mentioned by George Orwell in his 1940 essay on boys' weeklies. Title changed to "Oracle" sometime between 1949 and 1957.

Incorporates: Fortune (1937); Miracle (1954)

Issues & Index Sources

  28-Oct-1933 – 8-Jun-1958: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Len Pratt
  William Lewis Allen [Editor in Chief]

Formats

  small tabloid (quarto)

Prices

  ? – 30-Mar-1957: 3½d
  6-Apr-1957 – ?: 4d

Pagecounts

  20pp (in 1957)

Frequency

  weekly

Oracle2000

An Atlanta metaphysical publication "aimed at the New Age Occult Twaddle market" but containing some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  199? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Oracle2000, Atlanta
Editors:   Dan Liss
Email Address:   oracle2000@mindspring.com
Formats:   quarto
Pagecounts:   42pp

Oracle Library

"Complete novels of 45,000 words; must have a predominant love interest and strong action; can be set against mystery and drama".

Issues & Index Sources:  1949 – 195?
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press, later Fleetway Publications Ltd, Fleetway House, Farringdon St., London EC4
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   twice-monthly

Oracle Science Fiction & Fantasy Anthology Magazine

Total Issues: 3

Semi-professional magazine. The first issue has two printings, the second completely re-typeset. There may be a second printing of the second issue as well.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1982 – #3, 1984: Miller/Contento

Orb (fnz)

Total Issues: 11

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct/Nov-1949 – 1952: Miller/Contento


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