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Police Reporter Yearbook

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1956 – ?
Publishers:   Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY
Frequency:   annual

Political Barometer

Weekly newspaper founded (with Jesse Buel) and edited by Isaac Mitchell which serialised his novels ALBERT AND ELIZA (1802), MELVILLE AND PHALEZ (1803) and ALONZO AND MELISSA (1804).

The Political Barometer was a successor to The Guardian and was itself succeeded by the Republican Herald, both Poughkeepsie newspapers, but neither is known to have published any fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  8-Jun-1802 – 21-Aug-1811
Publishers:   Mitchell & Buel, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Editors:   Isaac Mitchell (8-Jun-1802 - Aug-1806)
Formats:   newspaper

Polly's Paper

Total Issues: 261

Contains one long story (22,000 words) plus an instalment of a serial "of the kind to appeal to working girls. Stories must be dramatic and it is preferred that the heroine is of the industrial classes."

Gifford says incorporated into Girls' Mirror, although that paper ends earlier.

Issues & Index Sources:  17-Nov-1919 – 30-Sep-1924
Publishers:   Shurey's Publications Ltd. (Charles Shurey), 11 Gough Square, London E.C.4
Editors:   J. Butler
Prices:   2d
Frequency:   weekly (every Monday)

Pony

Publishes articles and short stories with a 'horsy' theme aimed at 8-14 year-olds.

Issues & Index Sources

  1949 – present

Publishers

  Haslemere, Surrey

Website

  www.ponymag.com

Editors

  c. 1966 – 1971: Lt. Col. C.E.G. Hope
  c. 1978: Michael Williams
  c. 1983: Nancy Roberts
  c. 1993: Kate Austin
  c. 1998: Janet Rising

Frequency

  monthly

POP Literary Gazette

Billed as underground literature.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   P.O. Box 02071, Detroit, MI 48202 (in 2000)
Editors:   Karl Wenclas & Max Sitting (in 2000)
Email Address:   blah2@dhol.com
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (not in 2001 or 2002)

Poppy's Library
Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1928 – Jul-1937 (208 numbered issues)
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Frequency:   2 per month.

Poppy's Paper

Total Issues: 520+139+27=686

"Complete stories with stong love interest containing sensational and quick action, of about 10,000 words in length. Must be full of exciting interest and colour. Good intriguing plots and curtains absolutely necessary."

Incorporates My Story Weekly.

Issues & Index Sources

  2-Feb-1924 – 20-Jan-1934: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  27-Jan-1934 – 19-Sep-1936
  26-Sep-1936 – 27-Mar-1937, as Fortune

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  36pp

Frequency

  weekly

Popular

 see under The Penny Popular

Popular Baseball

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1942 – Spring 1951?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Standard Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt

Popular Complete Stories

 see under Complete Stories

Popular Detective

Total Issues: 133

Popular Detective is one of the basic detective pulps, both for its longevity (133 issues in 19 years) and for a consistent high quality of material from most of the top detective authors of the period.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1934 – Fall 1953: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Nov-1934 – 1937: Beacon Magazines, Inc., 570 Seventh Avenue, later 22 West 48th Street, New York, NY.
  1937 – Fall 1953: Better Publications, Inc., 22 West 48th Street, New York, NY and later at 10 East 40th Street, New York, NY.

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c at outset

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  monthly to Apr-1938, then bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Popular Detective (Australia)

Total Issues: 14 (at least)

Another thin Australian digest, this one with a mixture of original stories and reprints from American pulps.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1954: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: #1, #7, #12, #13, any after #14)
Publishers:   Action Comics, 14 Bond Street, Sydney
Sources:   AustCmFc
Issue Checklist

Popular Detective (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Popular Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The American News Company Limited, Toronto (or Better Publications, Toronto)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Sources:   Pulpster11
Issue Checklist

Popular Detective (UK)

Total Issues: 14?

British reprint edition of Popular Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1950 – c. 1953/1954: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: #6, #8, any after #14)
Publishers:   Pembertons of Manchester, 14 Lever Street, Manchester 1
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Popular Detective Stories

Total Issues: 1

One-shot magazine/anthology reprinting stories from various US sources.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1950: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Popular Publications, 505 His Majesty's Building, Commissioner and Joubert Streets, Johannesburg
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   1/6d
Pagecounts:   72pp
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Popular Engineering Stories

Total Issues: 1

Cover in pulp Culture.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1930: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Blue Circle (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   announced as monthly; began from #2
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Popular Fiction

 see under Man Stories

Popular Flying

An aviation magazine, primarily non-fiction, but famous for initiating Captain W. E. Johns's "Biggles" stories (as by William Earle, from the first issue). Later stories in the series appeared in The Boy's Own Paper and elsewhere.

Incorporated into a new magazine called Aeronautics which ran until 1962 and probably did not contain any fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1932 – Jul-1939

Publishers

  1932 – 1933: John Hamilton
  1933 – 1935: Popular Flying Ltd.
  1935 – 1939: C. Arthur Pearson

Editors

  Apr-1932 – Jul-1939: W. E. Johns
  Aug-1939 – Sep-1939: Oliver Stewart

Frequency

  monthly

Popular Football

Total Issues: 18?

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1941 – Fall 1951: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Standard Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   quarterly, irregular during 1946
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt

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