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The Penn Monthly Magazine"Devoted to the Literary, Scientific, and Social Interests of the Commonwealth and the Nation."
Pagecounts: 40pp Frequency: monthly |
The Penny AtlasTotal Issues: 128See Waite The Quest for Bloods p.77 (n.211)
Formats: small tabloid Pagecounts: 16pp Frequency: weekly |
Penny DreadfulTotal Issues: 15
Website: www.pennydreadful.org Editors: Michael Pendragon Email Address: mmpendragon@aol.com Formats: octavo s/b Prices: $5.00 Pagecounts: 140 |
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The Penny Magazine [1832]Circulation peaked at 200,000 after a year; declined to 25,000. Mostly non-fiction but did publish several interesting stories. Issues & Index Sources
PublishersEditorsCharles Knight (from 1846 at least)Frequencyweekly |
The Penny Magazine [1898]Total Issues: 1398+26=1424Issues & Index Sources
PublishersCassell'sFrequencyweekly |
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The Penny Magazine (US) [1895]
Editors: Charles Frederick Stansbury Prices: 2c Frequency: monthly |
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The Penny Magazine (US) [1896]
Prices: 5c Frequency: monthly |
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The Penny MiscellanyWaite was unsure whether he was recalling this journal or a later one of the same title as being particularly dull.
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The Penny Pictorial MagazineTotal Issues: 1795+71=1866Originally 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
PublishersHarmsworthEditorsNoel Wood-Smith Prices1dFrequencyweekly |
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The Penny PopularTotal Issues: 286+628=914Boys' 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
#incorporated into The Boys' Friend
#becomes The Ranger PublishersAmalgamated Press, Fleetway HouseEditorsArthur Aldcroft [Assistant Editor] Prices1d; 1½d; 2d from (1922)Pagecounts32pp; 16pp; 20pp from Oct-1919; 28pp from #161 (1922?)Frequencyweekly (every Friday; Tuesday from 1920s) |
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The Penny Story-Teller & Popular MagazineTotal Issues: 248The first 1d illustrated story paper. Issues & Index Sources
PublishersFormatsquartoPrices1dPagecounts46ppFrequencyweekly |
The Penny Sunday Times and People's Police GazetteTotal Issues: 278Consisted 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).
Formats: story paper Frequency: weekly |
The Penny WonderBoys' story-paper. Ran more sinister stories than its companion, The Penny Wonder, including detective and gothic stories. Has been called 'curiously old-fashioned'.
Frequency: weekly |
PenthouseIn the Playboy mould, it has published fiction, though less frequently and with less distinction than the magazine it emulates.
Website: penthousemagazine.com Formats: slick men's magazine Frequency: monthly Related Sites: Wikipedia (magazine) |
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Penthouse (UK)Separate British edition of US magazine. Regularly publishes fiction. For some years Graham Masterton was fiction editor.
Formats: slick men's magazine |
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The People's FriendTotal Issues: 7246 (to 6-Dec-2008)A coelacanth of the British periodical publishing industry, a
19th-century story paper which is still going as a popular weekly of
light romances.
Editors: currently Sinclair Matheson Formats: story paper Frequency: weekly |
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