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Pluck [1894]

Total Issues: 519+594+103=1216

Started with only true stories but soon switched to fiction; ran Nelson Lee stories plus Charles Hamilton's St Jim. 1st 46 issues of original series entitled Stories of Pluck. The second series took over from Sport and Adventure.

Third series included an 8pp supplement from issue 1 entitled Star Library.

Issues & Index Sources

  24-Nov-1894 – 5-Nov-1904: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  12-Nov-1904 – 18-Mar-1916

#incorporated into The Boys' Realm (Gifford)

  28-Oct-1922 – 11-Oct-1924

#becomes The Triumph

Publishers

  Harmsworth; Amalgamated Press

Editors

  William H. Maas
  J.H. Pym
  c. 1890: Percy C. Bishop
  Somers J. Summers
  Hamilton Edwards [Editor in Chief]
  Harold J. Garrish
  c. 1912: Rex Haydon
  1915: Horace Phillips
  c. 1907: Charles Manders [Assistant Editor]
  F. Addington Symonds
  John W. Wheway [Assistant Editor]
  c. 1924: Alfred Edgar [Assistant Editor]

Formats

  small tabloid (octavo)

Pagecounts

  20pp; 28pp

Frequency

  weekly

Pluck [1956]

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  1956
Publishers:   L. Miller
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   monthly

Pluck and Luck

Total Issues: 1605

The longest-running dime novel series, primarily printing stories of adventure in many different settings.

Issues & Index Sources:  12-Jan-1898 – 6-Mar-1929
Publishers:   Frank Tousey
Frequency:   semi-monthly
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Plume & Sword

Student literary magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1960 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   University of Virginia
Editors:   Thomas T. Taylor
Formats:   digest
Prices:   30c
Pagecounts:   28pp
Frequency:   monthly (except Jun-Sep)

Pocket Book Weekly

Story paper that published some "Saint" stories by Leslie Charteris.

Possibly started as Pocket Book (Wireless Weekly) in 1943, and renamed at some point to Pocket Book Storyteller Weekly under which name it was still running in 1946.

Issues & Index Sources:  1943? – 1956?
Publishers:   Associated Newspapers Ltd., Sydney
Formats:   6¾" x 7¾"
Pagecounts:   80pp
Frequency:   weekly

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

An early experiment with a "pocket-sized" magazine to persuade readers to part with their cash in the hard days after the depression, Pocket Detective featured many of the same authors as the other Street & Smith detective pulps. Bad sales did not result in the anticipated success and it folded after 11 issues.

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

Designed to fit in a man's hip-pocket, Pocket Detective featured fast-action, crime-adventure stories, each preceded by a pulplike illustration and printed on cheap paper. It folded after only two issues.

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: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Gilbert Patten Corporation
Editors:   S.W. Jenkins
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)
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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