Total Issues: 212

Launched as a magazine to educate people in all forms of popular culture, it also published one or two stories per issue that were nothing to do with fitness but were adventure or mystery fiction.

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Authors include Mark Twain, Ina Coolbrith, Ella Sterling Cummins.

Total Issues: 26 (at at Dec-2002)

Fiction and essays. Has published Barry Hannah, Charles Baxter, Jim Krusoe, Amy Gerstler. Circulation 1,200.

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When it debuted in 1988, Sassy, the brain-child of Australian publisher Sandra Yates, was seen as "a baby-ms.". Launched with the ad campaign, "I'm too sassy to read Teen" and with 25 year-old editor-in-chief Jane Pratt as a perfect foil for the much older editor of Seventeen, Sassy initially got lots of press and had a growing circulation.

The magazine, whose slangy, first-person style was described as "pajama-party journalism" featured articles such as "Guide To A Boy's Body," "My Brother's Gay, Big Whoop," and items on Rupaul, zines, the spoken word scene, and underground filmmakers. Nor did Sassy neglect such issues as the return of flared pants and the Brenda-Kelly-Dylan triangle on "90210."

The magazine was hit by a moral majority boycott in its first year , and shortly thereafter was sold to Dale Lang Publications. Some five years later , plagued by shrinking ad pages, the magazine was sold to Petersen publishing, which publishes Teen as well as Guns and Ammo.

Immediately after the sale, the entire Sassy staff was fired (many of them had been with the magazine since its inception) and the magazine was completely revamped, becoming a bland clone of every other mainstream teen-girl magazine.

Occasionally publishes fiction, e.g. "Run Away" by Cathie Bauer (Jul-1993).

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Total Issues: 18

The June 1959 issue was assembled but never printed. A very few copies of the galley proofs do exist. Another issue dated July 1959 was in the works but had never been assembled. Part of its contents would have been as follows: "Try to Remember" by Frank Herbert, "Ship of Darkness" by A.E. van Vogt and two articles "Breaking the Ice Barrier" by Frank Belknap Long and "The Lore of H.P. Lovecraft" by Sam Moskowitz.

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Total Issues: 6

Always featured fiction from the output, often short tales or serials reprinted from other publications.

First golden age was in the late 1840s-1850s when it published (often pirated) leading US and UK writers, including Charles Dickens, Ouida, G.P.R. James, Diana Mulock; declined after Civil War and remained a cheap story paper until bought by Cyrus Curtis in Aug-1897.

Curtis revamped the magazine and circulation grew from 2,231 in 1897 to 726,681 in 1907 and over 2 million by 1922. Artist Norman Rockwell contributed 323 cover paintings, 1916 - 1965.

Authors include Mary Roberts Rinehart, Clarence Budington Kelland, Arthur Train, P. G. Wodehouse (early "Jeeves" stories appeared in the Post first, followed by British publication in The Strand), Conan Doyle ("Maracot Deep" 1927), Morgan Robertson, Stephen V. Benet ("The Devil and Daniel Webster" 24-Oct-1936), Heinlein, Bradbury, C.S. Forester, Gerald Kersh, John Christopher.

Circulation rose from 315,000 in 1902, to 2.7 million in 1933, and almost 3.9 million in 1948.

Note: The latest incarnation seldom publishes fiction, but does run some short light-hearted stories.

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Supplement to the Chicago American, serialised Hammett's FAREWELL MURDER in 1937 prior to any book publication.

Total Issues: 661

Relied heavily on dime novelists, especially Prentiss Ingraham, Edward S. Ellis, Ned Buntline, Mayne Reid. Emphasis on westerns, mysteries, romance and adventure.

Started as The Weekly Saturday Star Journal to #96, The New York Saturday Star Journal to #156; New York Saturday Journal to #459 and again #521-624; and The Star Journal #460-#520.

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#superseded by Beadle's Weekly

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Total Issues: 231

Primarily frontier, detective and comic stories.

Total Issues: 1867

A story paper; authors include William Mason Turner, John B. Williams, Ann S. Stephens, Edward S. Ellis, A.R. Calhoun.

Originally a weekly paper of public affairs and the arts but later became a monthly magazine. Mostly non-fiction but does run fiction including work by Robertson Davies, Douglas Coupland ("Shampoo Planet" Sep-1992).

A "bohemian" or experimental magazine much patronised by the Pfaff's Cellar brigade -- Walt Whitman, Fitz-James O'Brien, Adah Menken et al. Also published Mark Twain's "Celebrated Jumping Frog" story (18-Nov-1865).