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Physical Culture (UK)

see under Sandow's Magazine

Physique Culture for Boys and Girls

US reprints.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1905 – ?
Publishers:   Bernarr MacFadden
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   monthly

Pic

Initially similar to Life in size and format, became more like a "men's adventure" magazine in the late 1950s.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1937 – Nov-1958
Publishers:   Wagner Publications (in 1950s)
Sources:   It's a Man's World

Picatrix

Total Issues: 1

Small press fantasy/horror fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1992: Miller/Contento
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Piccadilly [1887]

Issues & Index Sources

  15-Jan-1887 – 7-Jan-1888, as Entertainment Gazette and Guide to London
  14-Jan-1888 – 9-Nov-1893, as Piccadilly

Editors

  William Le Queux?

Frequency

  weekly

Piccadilly [1920]

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1920 – May-1926

Piccadilly [1929]

Glossy society paper full of photographs of the rich and the famous and the inevitable debutantes page. It ran mostly chatty gossip columns, but also ran a few stories, plus an interesting column by T. Stanhope Sprigg.

Issues & Index Sources:  27-Apr-1929? – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Piccadilly Magazine, Ltd.
Editors:   A. Spenser Allberry
Frequency:   weekly

Pick-Me-Up

Published George Griffith's novel "The Great Pirate Syndicate" (1898).

Issues & Index Sources:  6-Oct-1888 – 2-Jan-1909
Publishers:   Pearson
Prices:   1d
Frequency:   weekly

Pictorial Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1945 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Country Press Inc., 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY, and Broadway and 11th, Louisville, KY
Frequency:   monthly

Pictorial Juvenile Penny Weekly

Total Issues: 23

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1853 – Dec-1854
Publishers:   Houlston & Stoneman
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Pictorial Magazine

see under The Penny Pictorial Magazine

Pictorial Magazine for Little Children

Issues & Index Sources

  1855 – 1858

#becomes Little Child's Picture Magazine

Frequency

  monthly

Pictorial Pages

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1853 – 1855
Publishers:   Houlston & Stoneman
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Pictorial Review

Another women's fashion magazine which became heavy with quality fiction. "In time, a number of its stories were appearing in the collections of best short stories selected by Edward J. O'Brien, and a number of its serials were later appearing in book form, among them Donn Byrne's "Hangman's House", Edith Wharton's "Age of Innocence", Booth Tarkington's "Alice Adams", as well as works by Emil Ludwig, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Atherton, Joseph Conrad, and others" (Theodore Peterson, Magazines in the Twentieth Century); absorbed The Delineator, 1937.

Issues & Index Sources

  1899 – Jan-1939: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1899 – 1932: William Paul Ahnelt
  1932 – 1934: George S. Fowler
  1935 – 1939: Hearst

Editors

  ?: Arthur T. Vance
  ?: Percy Waxman
  ?: Herbert Mayes

Formats

  standard, later big slick?

Frequency

  monthly

The Pictorial Weekly

see under The Penny Pictorial Magazine

Picture Magazine [1800]

Full title is "Picture Magazine; or, Monthly Exhibition for Young People".

Issues & Index Sources:  1800 – 1801
Publishers:   John Marshall

Picture Magazine

Total Issues: 36

Religious paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1869 – Dec-1871
Publishers:   Simpkin
Frequency:   monthly

Picture Play

A magazine devoted to movie news and features; included a successful film converted into a short story.

Issues & Index Sources

  10-Apr-1915 – 27-Nov-1915, as Picture-Play Weekly: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  1-Dec-1915 – Feb-1927, as Picture-Play Magazine
  Mar-1927 – 1941?, as Picture Play: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Street & Smith

Editors

  Sep-1915 – ?: Gerald Duffy

Formats

  large format semi-slick

Prices

  5c at outset, but rose rapidly to 10c and then 15c

Frequency

  10-Apr-1915 – 27-Nov-1915: weekly
  1-Dec-1915 – Feb-1916: semimonthly
  Mar-1916 – Feb-1927: monthly
 

Picture Politics

A penny popular monthly issued by the Westminster Gazette and Budget. Typically published some fiction in each issue, including pieces by Saki.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1894 – Feb-1914: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Westminster Gazette
Editors:   F. Carruthers Gould (in 1902)
Frequency:   monthly
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