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Real Western Romances

Total Issues: 41?

The April 1952 issue is titled just Western Romances and the Jul-1957 is Western Romances on the cover.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1949 – Sep-1957?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only; some issues titled just Western Romances)

Publishers

  Columbia Magazines

Editors

  in 1951: Robert W. Lowndes
  c. 1952 – Sep-1957?: Marie Antoinette Park

Formats

  standard pulp

Frequency

  mostly bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Real Western Stories

see under Real Western Magazine/Stories

Real Western Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 6?

British reprint edition of Real Western Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1952: Fictionmags Website (Missing: #1, #2, any after #6)
Formats:   standard pulp

The Recluse

Total Issues: 1

A one-shot amateur journalism publication with a high concentration of fantasy and fantasy-related material. Often considered the first fanzine, though it predates the formation of SF fandom by several years. A "facsimile" reprint (actually a Xerox) was issued by Moshassuck Press, Glenview, IL in 1990.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1927: Miller/Contento

Records of Love, or Monthly Amusement for the Fair

A magazine aimed primarily at women and featuring serial 'genteel histories'.

Issues & Index Sources:  1710
Frequency:   monthly?

Red Arrow

Total Issues: 52

Issues & Index Sources

  19-Mar-1932 – 18-Mar-1933

#incorporated into Adventure

Publishers

  D.C. Thomson

Formats

  small format

Frequency

  weekly

Red-Blooded Stories

Total Issues: 5+4=9

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1928 – Feb-1929: Fictionmags Website
  Mar-1929 – Jun-1929, as Tales of Danger & Daring: Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  New Metropolitan imprint of Macfadden Publications

Formats

  Oct-1928 – Feb-1929: standard pulp
  Mar-1929 – Jun-1929: quasi-slick, large format

Prices

  25c

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
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The Red Book

Early authors little known but later included Ellis Parker Butler, Octavus Roy Cohen, George Allan England, Gilbert Parker, Albert Payson Terhune; became 'the Magazine for Young Readers' in 1949 before becoming an upmarket women's magazine in the 1960s. Absorbed American Home in Mar-1978.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1903 – Dec-1929: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Jan-1930 – present, as Redbook: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1903 – 1929: Short Story Company [later Consolidated Magazines Corporation]
  1929 – ?: McCall

Website

  www.redbookmag.com

Editors

  ?: Trumbull White
  ?: Karl Harriman
  1911 – 1918: Ray Long
  1929 – 1949: Edwin Balmer
  1949 – 1958: Wade Nichols
  1958 – ?: Robert Stein
  in 2000: Dawn Raffel

Formats

  May-1903 – Sep-1917?: standard
  Oct-1917 – 1920: quarto
  1920 – present: oversize slick

Prices

  initially 10 cents, rose to 15c and then 20c in Oct-1917

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  UltGuide
 
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Red Clay Reader

Total Issues: 7

An annual magazine that published the work of Southern authors and artists.

Issues & Index Sources:  1964 – 1970: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Southern Review
Editors:   Charleen Whisnant
Formats:   8.5" x 11" hardcover

Red Dime Detective

Total Issues: 1?

Reprints stories from the US Dime Detective. The cover and Table of Contents of the issue seen both give the title as above, but it is also referred to internally simply as Dime Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1949: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Magazine Fiction Group, Cartoon Art Productions, 333 Victoria Road, Glasgow S2
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-
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The Red Dragon

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1882 – Jun-1887: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Daniel Owen, Howell and Co., Cardiff, Wales

Red Guerilla

Total Issues: 1 (unnumbered)

Issues & Index Sources:  1943
Publishers:   National Council for British Soviet Unity
Pagecounts:   16pp

Red Heart Novels

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  1940
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts:   68pp

Red Herring Mystery Magazine

Total Issues: 12?

Elusive small-press magazine that ran for 12 issues or so in the mid 1990s.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1994? – Summer 1997?: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: v2 #1, 1995; v3 #2, 1996)
Publishers:   Potpourri Publications, PO Box 8278, Prairie Village, KS 66208
Editors:   Sherri Armel, Carol Newman, Lawrence Walsh & Suella Walsh
Prices:   $4.95
Pagecounts:   90pp
Frequency:   quarterly
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Red Hood Detective Stories

see under Red Mask Detective Stories

Red Letter (UK)

Women's story paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  1899 – 1987: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   D. C. Thomson, Dundee
Frequency:   weekly

The Red Letter (US)

Total Issues: 8

An art and literary magazine with more emphasis on art. The literature included fiction, poetry and book reviews.

The first issue had a sticker on it stating that it had absorbed THE POSTER. This latter was published in New York by W. M. Clemens and lasted for only five issues, Jan-May 1896.

Contained a poem by George Allan England in one issue.

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug-1896 – Apr-1897

Publishers

  Barta, Badger and Bird, Boston, Mass.

Editors

  Aug-1896 – Nov-1896: Richard Gorham Badger
  Dec-1896 – Jan-1897: Henry Draper Hunt
  Feb-1897 – Apr-1897: H. Walter Stephenson

Frequency

  monthly

The Red Magazine

Total Issues: 620

Published a high-proportion of sf, fantasy and mystery in first decade; shifted more to light romance in the 1920s but reverted to more adventure-based stories in 1930s. Authors include A.E. Ashford, Bertram Atkey, Coutts Brisbane, A.M. Burrage, William Hope Hodgson, M.P. Shiel, Edgar Wallace, J. Russell Warren, Fred M. White.

Cover title was Harmsworth's Red Magazine in 1930s.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1908 – Sep-1939: Search & Research #1, 11-1973 (SR1 sf & fantasy only)
Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress)

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press, London

Editors

  1908 – 1909?: John Stock & A.H. Broadwell
  1909? – 1926?: John Stock
  1926? – 1931: W.A. O'Donnell
  1932: David Whitelaw
  1933 – 1935: Francis Ward
  1936 – 1939: Clarence Winchester

Formats

  slightly undersized (8½" x 9½") standard all-fiction pulp

Pagecounts

  Jun-1908 – May-1909: 192pp
  Jun-1909 – 1-Apr-1917: 160pp
  15-Apr-1917 – 1-Mar-1919: 96pp
  15-Mar-1919 – Jul-1926: 112pp
  13-Aug-1926 – Sep-1939: 96pp

Frequency

  Jun-1908 – Jan-1910: monthly
  Feb-1910 – Mar-1918: twice-monthly
  Apr-1918 – Dec-1918: monthly
  1-Jan-1919 – 15-Jul-1919: twice-monthly
  25-Jul-1919 – Sep-1929: bi-weekly
  Oct-1929 – Sep-1939: monthly

Sources

  AgeStory
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