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Rough Rider Weekly

Total Issues: 175

Dime novel series containing primarily stories of the contemporary west. Some issues entitled The Young Rough Rider Weekly.

Issues & Index Sources: 23-Apr-1904 – 24-Aug-1907

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   8½" x 11"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   32pp

The Round-Up

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1922

Publishers:   William Clayton
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Round-Up Magazine (UK)

Total Issues: 4

Only first issue seen, and that contains only a novel by John Theydon. Other three listed on back of issue 1 as "forthcoming", but may not have appeared. May be the same as Round-Up Western from the Magazine Fiction Group and/or may actually be titled Round-Up Library.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers:   The City Libraries, 337 Victoria Road, Glasgow
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   98pp

Round-Up Western

Not seen, but advertised in an issue of Real FBI Detective Case Stories. May be the same as Round-Up Magazine from The City Libraries.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1949

Publishers:   Magazine Fiction Group, Cartoon Art Productions, 333 Victoria Road, Glasgow S2
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-

Routledge's Christmas Annual

An annual which published some supernatural tales by Amelia B. Edwards and others. The issues varied between story collections and novels and were somewhat erratically numbered/named/dated. Issues known are:

- Christmas 1866, dated 1866, titled "Mixed Sweets" - Christmas 1867, dated 1867, titled "On the Cards" - Christmas 1868, dated 1868, titled "First Class" - Christmas 1869, dated 1869, no title - Christmas 1870, dated 1870, no title - Christmas 1871, dated 1872, no title - Christmas 1872, dated 1873, no title - Christmas 1873, dated 1873, no title - Christmas 1876, dated 1876, no title - Christmas 1879, dated 1879, no title

Issues & Index Sources: Christmas 1866 – Christmas 1879?

Publishers: Routledge
Frequency: annual

Rover

Total Issues: 2481

Boys' story paper. Incorporates: Wizard from 23-Nov-1963 Incorporated into Wizard (comic). Further Reading: The Rover Index by Colin Morgan (Golden Fun, 1982).

Issues & Index Sources

4-Mar-1922 – 14-Jan-1961

21-Jan-1961 – 12-Oct-1963, as Rover and Adventure

19-Oct-1963 – 16-Nov-1963, as Rover

23-Nov-1963 – 9-Aug-1969, as Rover and Wizard

16-Aug-1969 – 13-Jan-1973, as Rover

Publishers

D.C. Thomson, 12 Fetter Lane, London E.C.4

Editors

  c. 1922: R.D. Low
  c. 1940: John Low
  1924 – 1928: William Blaine [Assistant Editor]

Prices

2d; 3d from 1369

Pagecounts

28pp; 20pp; 16pp; 12pp

Frequency

weekly; fortnightly

Rovering

Total Issues: 54+6=60

"Described as "for young British Manhood". It was edited by A.L. Haydon of the Boy's Own Paper. It had similar stories and articles to those which appeared in The Scout." (W.O.G. Lofts)

The final issue announced "Owing to decreased circulation during the summer months, the publisher has decided to suspend publication of any further issues of Rovering. The competition in this number is cancelled."

Issues & Index Sources

22-Mar-1924 – 28-Mar-1925

4-Apr-1925 – 9-May-1925

Publishers

The Religious Tract Society, 4 Bouverie St., London EC4

Editors

A.L. Haydon; G.R. Pocklington from #54

Frequency

weekly

The Rover's Log

Total Issues: 59

Issues & Index Sources: 11-Mar-1872 – 12-Apr-1873

Publishers:   W.L. & G. Emmett (Note: Gifford gives Charles Fox)
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Rovers of the Sea

Total Issues: 61

Issues & Index Sources: 11-Mar-1872 – 28-Apr-1873

Publishers:   E.J. Brett
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

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	(FicMags has sample issues only)

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	(FicMags has sample issue only)

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

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