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Magazine Issues

Ranger [1965]

Total Issues: 40

Issues & Index Sources

18-Sep-1965 – 18-Jun-1966

#incorporated into Look and Learn

Publishers

Fleetway

Pagecounts

36pp

Frequency

weekly

Range Riders

Total Issues: 82

Retitled Range Riders Western from Fall 1940.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1937 – Apr-1953:	Pulp Magazine Index 4	(Missing: Oct-1937, Dec-1937, Feb-1938, Apr-1938, Jun-1938, Aug-1938, Oct-1938, Dec-1938, Winter 1942, Summer 1942, Fall 1943, Oct-1945)
	Fictionmags Website

Publishers

Better Publications (Standard Magazines)

Editors

  mid 1940s: G.B. Farnum
  Nov-1950: Edmund Collier
  Mar-1952: Morris Jones

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

Oct-1937 – Dec-1939: 15c
Feb-1940 – Apr-1953: 10c

Pagecounts

Oct-1937 – Dec-1939: 128pp
Feb-1940 – ?: 112pp (pages further reduced)

Frequency

bi-monthly to Feb-1940; quarterly Fall 1940 - Summer 1945; bi-monthly from Oct-1945

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Range Riders Western (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Range Riders Western.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Better/Thrilling Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11

Range Riders Western (UK)

Total Issues: 13?

British reprint edition of Range Riders Western.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Pemberton's (of Manchester) Ltd.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   66pp

Rapid

see under The Rapid Review

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


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Rapid-Fire Detective Stories

Total Issues: 8

Published as a companion to Rapid-Fire Action Stories and Rapid-Fire Western Stories, Rapid-Fire Detective Stories was an undistinguished detective pulp that ran for 8 issues.

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



Issue Checklist

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+4+6=44

Although the name was first changed to The Rapid in Dec-1906, the magazine was relaunched in Apr-1907 as a short-lived companion to Pearson's and The Novel, which ran some fiction but was chiefly a vehicle for comment on matters of social and human interest.

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1904 – Nov-1906

Dec-1906 – Mar-1907, as The Rapid

Apr-1907 – Sep-1907, as The Rapid:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: May-1907, Jun-1907, Jul-1907)

Publishers

C. A. Pearson

Editors

Percy Everett?

Prices

Pagecounts

144pp

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)

Rare Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Publishers: Universal Crime Stories Inc., 366 Madison Ave., New York, NY
Frequency: monthly

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