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Pictorial Juvenile Penny Weekly

Total Issues: 23

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1853 – Dec-1854
Publishers:   Houlston & Stoneman
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Pictorial Magazine

see under The Penny Pictorial Magazine

Pictorial Magazine for Little Children

Issues & Index Sources

  1855 – 1858

#becomes Little Child's Picture Magazine

Frequency

  monthly

Pictorial Pages

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1853 – 1855
Publishers:   Houlston & Stoneman
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Pictorial Review

Another women's fashion magazine which became heavy with quality fiction. "In time, a number of its stories were appearing in the collections of best short stories selected by Edward J. O'Brien, and a number of its serials were later appearing in book form, among them Donn Byrne's "Hangman's House", Edith Wharton's "Age of Innocence", Booth Tarkington's "Alice Adams", as well as works by Emil Ludwig, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Atherton, Joseph Conrad, and others" (Theodore Peterson, Magazines in the Twentieth Century); absorbed The Delineator, 1937.

Issues & Index Sources

  1899 – Jan-1939: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1899 – 1932: William Paul Ahnelt
  1932 – 1934: George S. Fowler
  1935 – 1939: Hearst

Editors

  ?: Arthur T. Vance
  ?: Percy Waxman
  ?: Herbert Mayes

Formats

  standard, later big slick?

Frequency

  monthly

The Pictorial Weekly

see under The Penny Pictorial Magazine

Picture Magazine [1800]

Full title is "Picture Magazine; or, Monthly Exhibition for Young People".

Issues & Index Sources:  1800 – 1801
Publishers:   John Marshall

Picture Magazine

Total Issues: 36

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1869 – Dec-1871
Publishers:   Simpkin
Frequency:   monthly

Picture Play Weekly

A magazine devoted to movie news and features; included a successful film converted into a short story.

Issues & Index Sources:  10-Apr-1915 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Editors:   Sep-1915 – ?: Gerald Duffy
Formats:   large format semi-slick
Prices:   5c at outset, but rose rapidly to 10c and then 15c
Frequency:   weekly

Picture Politics

A penny popular monthly issued by the Westminster Gazette and Budget. Typically published some fiction in each issue, including pieces by Saki.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1894 – Feb-1914: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Westminster Gazette
Editors:   F. Carruthers Gould (in 1902)
Frequency:   monthly
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Picture Show

A movie magazine edited by Maud Hughes, very well known in its time, which ran fiction in most (all?) issues up to the 1930s at least. These were short story adaptations of current movies, published anonymously.

Issues & Index Sources:  3-May-1919 – 31-Dec-1960: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Editors:   Maud Hughes
Frequency:   weekly (except every two weeks during 30-Aug-1941 - 3-Jul-1949)

Pidgy

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Piffle

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  2003: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   UniSFA -- the University of Western Australia Science Fiction and Fantasy Association
Editors:   Chris Coman
Formats:   digest
Prices:   AU$5

Piggly Wiggly

Children's Magazine of Animal Stories with Great Illustrations, Short Stories, Comics And Games.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1953 – ?
Publishers:   Parents' Magazine, Concord, NH.
Formats:   5-3/8" X 7-5/8".
Pagecounts:   130pp

Pig Iron

A literary magazine. #10 (1982) was a special all-SF issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1980s: Miller/Contento (sample issue only)

The Pillar-Box

Total Issues: 1

A fiction magazine produced entirely by members of the Union of Post-Office Workers. Although intended as a periodical, only one issue was published.

Issues & Index Sources:  1923: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   43 Cromwell Road, London SW7
Editors:   Geo. Middleton, M.P.
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   86pp

Pilot

Total Issues: 131

Boys' story paper.

Issues & Index Sources

  5-Oct-1935 – 2-Apr-1938

#incorporated into Wild West Weekly (UK)

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Hedley O'Mant; G. Cecil Graveley (Assistant Editor); Clifford Gates (Assistant Editor)

Formats

  11½" x 9"

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly

The Pioneer [1843]

Total Issues: 3

Although short-lived published important fiction and poetry by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett, Maria White.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1843 – Mar-1843
Publishers:   Leland & Whiting, Boston
Editors:   James R. Lowell & Robert Carter
Frequency:   monthly


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