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The Royal Magazine

Total Issues: 385+18+31+6+51=491

The first issue states that the initial print order for The Royal was one million copies, the total of which weighed nearly 300 tons and stood nearly 5 miles high. Published first stories by William Hope Hodgson (1904) and Sax Rohmer (1905); other authors include Baroness Orczy, M.P. Shiel.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1898 – Nov-1930: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags has sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website
  Dec-1930 – May-1932, as The New Royal Magazine: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)
  Jun-1932 – Dec-1934, as The Royal Pictorial: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags has sample issue only)
Fictionmags Website
  Jan-1935 – Jun-1935, as The Royal Screen Pictorial
  Jul-1935 – Sep-1939, as The Screen Pictorial

Publishers

  C. Arthur Pearson, London

Editors

  Nov-1898 – Apr-1901: Peter Keary
  May-1901 – Dec-1911: Percy Everett
  Jan-1912 – Jun-1927: F.E. Baily
  Jul-1927 – May-1932: R. Stuart Macrae
  Jun-1932 – Dec-1934: John Reed Wade
  Jan-1935 – 1937: William J. Makin
  1937 – Sep-1939: David Chancellor

Formats

  Nov-1898 – Nov-1930: standard on coated stock (Strand imitation)
  Dec-1930 – Sep-1939: large flat slick

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory
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The Royal Novelette
Issues & Index Sources:  1898?
Publishers:   Harry Shurey
Editors:   Charles Shurey
Formats:   large tabloid (folio)

Ruby

Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources

  20-Jan-1923 – 2-Jun-1923

#incorporated into The Schoolgirls' Weekly

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Frequency

  weekly

Ruby Library

Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1932 – Jul-1933
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Editors:   Ernest L. McKeag
Formats:   6½" x 4½"
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   64pp+
Frequency:   2 per month

Rugged

Total Issues: 4+

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1957 – Aug-1957?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Sources:   MansWorld

Rugged Men

Total Issues: 18+

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1956 – ?-1959
  Apr-1959 – Sep-1959, as Spur
  Oct-1960? – Feb-1961, as Rugged Men

Publishers

  Stanley Publications

Sources

  MansWorld
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Ruminator Review

A St. Paul literary magazine which typically features a mix of reviews, interviews and poetry, with a lot of attention given to small-press titles. Contributors have included such writers as Robert Bly, Andrei Codrescu, Jane Hamilton and Arundhati Roy.

Issues & Index Sources

  1986 – ?, as Hungry Mind Review
  ? – present, as Ruminator Review

Editors

  2001 – 2004: Margaret Todd Maitland

Rune

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1974: Miller/Contento
  v1 #2, 1976 – v3 #1, 1978, as Starwind: Miller/Contento

The Running Man

Popularly-slanted literary journal; probably lasted only a few issues; published some fiction, including J. G. Ballard's "Love and Napalm: Export USA" (Jul/Aug. 1968)

Issues & Index Sources:  May/Jun-1968 – ?
Frequency:   bimonthly

Russell's Magazine

Total Issues: 36

Modelled on Blackwood's. Tales and serials by Mrs H.C. King, Essie Cheseborough; also translations.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1857 – Mar-1860
Publishers:   Russell & Jones, Charleston, SC.
Editors:   Paul Hamilton Hayne.
Formats:   standard
Frequency:   monthly

Sackcloth & Ashes

Total Issues: 7

Small press horror magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1998 – Mar-2000: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Andrew Busby & Lisa Busby
Editors:   Andrew Busby & Lisa Busby
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £3.00
Pagecounts:   74
Frequency:   quarterly

Safari

Total Issues: 30+

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1956 – Jan-1961: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Safari Publications
Sources:   MansWorld
 
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Saga

Total Issues: 326+

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1950 – Nov-1977: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Macfadden Publications
  1966 – ?: Gambi Publications

Sources

  MansWorld
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St Andrews Review

Total Issues: 53

Issues & Index Sources

  1970? – 1991
  Summer 1992 – Spring 1999, as The Sandhills Review

Publishers

  1970? – 1991: St Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinsburg, North Carolina
  Summer 1992 – Spring 1999: Dept. of Languages of, Sandhills Community College, Pinehurst, North Carolina

St. Anthony Messenger

Monthly magazine published by Franciscan friars with one story per issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   1615 Republic Street, Cincinnati, OH 45210-1298 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.americancatholic.org
Editors:   Jack Wintz (in 2000 - 2002)
Email Address:   StAnthony@AmericanCatholic.org
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Saint Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 141

Retitled The Saint Mystery Magazine from Nov-1958 and The Saint Magazine from May-1966.

Issues & Index Sources

  Spring 1953 – Oct-1958: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Nov-1958 – Apr-1966, as The Saint Mystery Magazine: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  May-1966 – Oct-1967, as The Saint Magazine: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  King-Size Publications to Oct-1959; then Great American Publications to Aug-1960; Sales Publications from Sep-1961 and Fiction Publishing from Dec-1961.

Editors

  Sam Merwin to 1959 then Hans Stefan Santesson

Formats

  digest

Prices

  50c (reduced to 35c, Jan-1954 - Oct-1963)

Pagecounts

  192pp (later 128pp)

Frequency

  first issue as quarterly but bi-monthly from #2 and monthly from Sep-1954, some gaps, and no issues between Aug-1960 and Sep-1961.

Sources

  UltGuide, CookMDE
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