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Rapid-Fire Action Stories

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1932 – Dec-1932
Publishers:   Rapid-Fire Publications (William Clayton)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Rapid-Fire Detective Stories

Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1932 – May-1933: Pulp Magazine Index 3
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Rapid-Fire Publications (William Clayton)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Rapid-Fire Western Stories

Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1932 – May-1933: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Rapid-Fire Publications (William Clayton)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

The Rapid Review

Total Issues: 34+10=44

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1904? – 1906
  1906 – 1907, as The Rapid

Rapture

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   American Art Agency

Rare Constellations

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 199? – #2, 1993: Miller/Contento (Missing: all except #2)

Raritan: A Quarterly Review

Infrequently publishes fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1981 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Rutgers University, 31 Mine Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08093 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Richard Poirier (in 1988 - 2002)
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Rascal

Contained "western and crime sleaze stories and lots of delicious cheesecake".

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s
Publishers:   Camerarts Publishing Company, 2715 North Pulaski Rd., Chicago, Illinois 60639
Editors:   Frank Sorren
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   50pp

Rats

Australia's Monthly Satire Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1972 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Rats Publishing, Carlton North, Vics
Editors:   Piotr J. Olszewski
Prices:   A$0.45
Pagecounts:   40pp
 

Rattapallax

Total Issues: 8 (to Dec-2002)

Issues include poetry readings on CD.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   523 La Guardia Place, Suite 353, New York, NY 10012 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.rattapallax.com
Editors:   Martin Mitchell (in 2002); George Dickerson (in 2000)
Email Address:   rattapallax@hotmail.com
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Rattler's Tale

General fiction fanzine, mainly publishing vignettes.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1992: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Anthony North Enterprises, BCM Keyhole, LONDON, WC1N 3XX
Editors:   North, Anthony
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £2.00
Pagecounts:   80pp

Rave

Mostly aimed at teenagers and containing features about pop entertainers, but also included "fiction involving action or adventure, romance, dialogue, and set among contemporary young people" of 1000-3500 words.

Issues & Index Sources:  1964 – early 1970s
Publishers:   Fleetway Publications; IPC
Editors:   P. Lamburn (c. 1966); Betty Hale (c. 1971)
Prices:   2/6d; 12½p
Frequency:   monthly

The Raven Chronicles

Publishes work which reflects cultural diversity. Also publishes on the internet and occasional chapbooks. Circulation 1,000.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer/Fall 1991 – present
Publishers:   Raven Chronicles, Seattle, WA
Website:   www.ravenchronicles.org
Editors:   Phoebe Bosch^e'
Formats:   A4
Pagecounts:   48+pp
Frequency:   thrice yearly

The Reader's Digest

Not important for fiction (although it has published condensed novels, but most fiction is reprint), but notable for two other factors: (a) it has achieved what is said to be the world's largest circulation of any magazine (circa 31 million in 1981); and (b) it established the so-called "digest" format (approx. 7.5" tall by 5.25" wide) which was later copied by many fiction magazines. A British edition has been published since 1938.

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1922 – present
Publishers:   Reader's Digest Association (DeWitt Wallace)
Website:   www.rd.com
Editors:   DeWitt Wallace, Kenneth W. Payne and many others
Formats:   digest
Frequency:   monthly
 

The Reader's Library

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1932 – Jul-1932
Publishers:   William Clayton
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Reader's Scope

READER'S SCOPE was the antithesis of READER'S DIGEST, in format, at least. Some of the contributors are pretty impressive. Truman Capote, for one, was a regular columnist even before he hit 'The Big Time.' Other 'contributors' like Jack London and Poe are almost certainly all reprints, but a fair amount of the fiction was probably first appearance.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1942 – Jul-1944, as Picture Scope
  Aug-1944 – Jul-1948, as Reader's Scope

Publishers

  Lev Gleason Publications, Inc., 114 East 32nd Street, New York 16, N. Y.

Prices

  25c


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