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Scoop (Regional Edition)

Total Issues: 9

Tested in the Tyne Tees area for some weeks before being nationally distributed.

Issues & Index Sources

17-Mar-1988 – 12-May-1988

#becomes Scoop (National Edition)

Publishers

Senator; London Editions

Editors

Michael Sombart

Formats

four-colour tabloid

Prices

30p

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Scoop (National Edition)

Described as a bright 'n' breezy children's tabloid, it peaked with sales of 40,000 before problems with its positioning in newsagents - confused by its subtitle of "News & Music" - led to its closure.

Issues & Index Sources: 19-May-1988 – 23-Dec-1989

Publishers:   Senator; London Editions
Editors:   Michael Sombart; Ian Drew
Formats:   four-colour tabloid
Prices:   30p; 40p
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

Scoop (Third Series)

Total Issues: 5?

The weekly Scoop was relaunched in January 1990 as a 70p monthly, but low sales and poor advertising revenue soon forced it to close.

Issues & Index Sources: 26-Jan-1990 – May-1990

Publishers:   London Editions
Editors:   Ian Drew
Formats:   A4
Prices:   70p
Frequency:   monthly

Scoop Detective (Cases)

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1942 – ?

Publishers: Magazine Publishing House of Canada

Scoops

Total Issues: 20

A juvenile story paper devoted entirely to SF.

Issues & Index Sources

10-Feb-1934 – 23-Jun-1934:	Miller/Contento
	Story Paper Index

Publishers

C. Arthur Pearson

Editors

Bernard Buley
Hadyn Dimmock [Editor-in-Chief]

Formats

tabloid

Prices

Pagecounts

32pp

Frequency

weekly

Sources

AgeStory

Scorcher Novels

Total Issues: 12?

Gifford gives first issue as 20-Apr-1932 but this does not tie in with adverts on a copy seen by the author which date the third issue as 1936 or 1937.

Issues & Index Sources: 1937?

Publishers: Sharman Ellis
Pagecounts: 68pp

The Scorpion

see under The Western Raider

Scotland Yard

Total Issues: 14

Stories printed either anonymously or under by-lines like 'Immigration Man' or 'Crack Reporter'. Stories purported to be true but clearly not. Authors include Lester Dent. Some may have been reprinted from UK mags. The title on the cover was occasionally Scotland Yard Detective Stories or Scotland Yard International Detective, but the title on the masthead was consistently just Scotland Yard.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1930 – Aug-1931:	Pulp Magazine Index 1
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Dell
Editors:   Richard A. Martinsen
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly from Jul-1930
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



Issue Checklist

Scotland Yard Series of Detective Stories

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: 1888

Publishers:   General Publishing Co.
Formats:   library
Frequency:   monthly

The Scots Magazine

Total Issues: 948+150=1098

A general miscellany of religion, politics, comment, review and fiction. Note: There was The New Scots Magazine published in Edinburgh in 1829 (possibly 7 issues); a revived 20th-century version is still published by D. C. Thomson, Dundee, but does not seem to carry much (if any) fiction; relaunched as The Edinburgh Magazine (see entry).

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1739 – Jul-1817

Dec-1898 – May-1900, as The Scots' Magazine

Frequency

monthly

Sources

BritLit1

The Scottish Girl

see under The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls

The Scottish Girls' Friendly Society Magazine

see under The Homely Friend for Young Women and Girls

Scottish Review

Issues & Index Sources: 1882 – 1900:

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 2

The Scout

Total Issues: 3092

For part of its run (1931 - 1935) the title was overtitled Every Boys' Weekly (c 1953 - 1954). Contained "short stories (3-5,000 words), healthy adventure appealing to boys from 8-16, articles on camping & outdoors, true-life adventure."

Incorporates: Work & Play from-Apr-1917; Wolf Cub from 8-Jan-1921

Issues & Index Sources

18-Apr-1908 – 24-Sep-1966

Publishers

18-Apr-1908 – 27-Jul-1940: C. Arthur Pearson, 28 Malden Lane, London W.C.
3-Aug-1940 – 24-Sep-1966: The Boy Scout Association from #1684

Editors

  1908 – 1910: Percy W. Everett
  1910 – 1911: Horace Phillips
  1911 – 1915: Bernard Everett
  1919: Bernard Everett [briefly]
  c. 1914: Nancy M. Hayes
  1918 – 1954: F. Hadyn Dimmock
  1954 – 1966: Rex Hazelwood
  c. 1913 – 1915: J. Bolton Dimmock [Assistant Editor]
  1915: F. Hadyn Dimmock [Assistant Editor]
  1919 – 1922: Bernard Smith [Assistant Editor]
  1924 – 1925: Ronald S. Lyons [Assistant Editor]

Prices

2d (c. 1934); 3d; 6d

Pagecounts

24pp

Frequency

weekly

Scouts' Standard

Total Issues: 1

"This paper was published on the same lines as The Scout, containing stories and articles of a scouting flavour." (W.O.G. Lofts)

Issues & Index Sources: May-1910

Publishers: 59 Fleet Street

Scramble

Total Issues: 57

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1947 – Mar-1951:

Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   monthly; weekly; Irregualar

Scramble Budget

Total Issues: 2

Rebound remainders.

Issues & Index Sources: 1950

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts: 100pp

The Scrap Book

Total Issues: 71

From Jul-1907 became two magazines in one, a front section, 180pp, on coated stock, all non-fiction; second half all fiction, 192pp on book paper -- the package for 25c; this experiment lasted for 15 issues and then the fiction section became a separate magazine, The Cavalier; Scrap Book remained on quality book paper until 1911 when it went pulp.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1906 – Jan-1912:	Index to F&SF in Munsey Publications	(IdxMun partial data only; FicMags sample issues only)
	Fictionmags Website	(IdxMun partial data only; FicMags sample issues only)

#merges with The Cavalier