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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

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#superseded by Complete Stories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



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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

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

People's Popular Monthly

Mainstream monthly, tabloid, on newsprint that featured some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1920s

Frequency: monthly
Sources: BSS1921

Pep!

see under Pep Stories

Pepper

Featured "Features, Stories, Pictures".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s

Publishers:   Selbee Associates, 1637 Broadway, New York, NY
Editors:   P. Fox
Prices:   $1.00
Pagecounts:   56pp

Pepper-Pot Quarterly

Reprint magazine binding two unsold copies of Ginger Stories, and/or three back numbers of Snappy Stories and/or Live Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1929

Sources: Uncovered

Peppy Stories

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s

Sources: UltGuide

Peppy Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1949:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Peppy Tales

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1939/1940:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Consolidated Magazine Co.
Prices:   25c
Sources:   UltGuide, Uncovered

Pep Stories

May-1929 cover in Goodstone The Pulps (fig.47); Feb-1930 cover in Pulp Culture; Oct-1929 in Haining's "American Pulp Magazines". A new series started at some stage around 1930/31.

Issues & Index Sources

1925? – 1927, as Pep:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

1927 – Dec-1938?, as Pep Stories:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

c. 1939/1940, as Pep Stories

Publishers

King Publishing, Wilmington, Delaware to ?; thereafter DM Publishing

Editors

Natalie Adele Messenger

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

25c

Pagecounts

112pp (68pp in 8/35)

Frequency

monthly?

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, Uncovered



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Pep Tec (Tales)

Total Issues: 6

Listed in Haining's "American Pulp Magazines", which includes covers for the Jun-1937 & Oct-1937 issues, and mentions a Nov-1937 one. The Jun-1937 issue is titled Pep Tec on cover and Table of Contents, while the Oct-1937 issue is titled Pep Tec Tales on the table of contents and Pep "Tec" Tales on the cover.

The issues seen are partial reprints of US saucy pulps such as Vice Squad Detective and Spicy Detective Stories, so it is quite likely that this is actually a UK magazine (as the only known issues are in the UK) and that the listed publisher and price are a smokescreen.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1937? – Nov-1937?:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: all except Jun-1937 and Oct-1937)

Publishers:   Graphic Arts, Inc., 501 7th Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minn.
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly?
Sources:   UltGuide


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