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Magazine Issues

Startling Science Stories

Total Issues: 32+39=71

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1997 – Mar-2000:

Miller/Contento

Apr-2000 – Jun-2003, as Alien Worlds:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Fading Shadows, Inc.; Seymour, TX

Website

www.geocities.com/fadingshadows1/

Editors

Tom & Virginia Johnson

Formats

octavo

Prices

$5.00 (in Dec-2000)

Pagecounts

84pp

Frequency

monthly

Startling Space Stories

Total Issues: 1 (to Jan-2008)

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-2007 – present

Publishers: Rainfall Books

Startling Stories

Total Issues: 99

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1939 – Fall 1955:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Jan-1939 – Jul-1949: Better Publications, Inc., Chicago
  Sep-1949 – Mar-1951: Better Publications, Inc., Springfield, MA
  Winter 1951 – Winter 1955: Better Publications, Inc., Kokomo, IN
  Spring 1955 – Fall 1955: Standard Magazines, Inc., Kokomo, IN

Editors

  Jan-1939 – May-1941: Mort Weisinger
  Jul-1941 – Fall 1944: Oscar J. Friend
  Winter 1945 – Sep-1951: Sam Merwin, Jr.
  Nov-1951 – Fall 1954: Sam Mines
  Winter 1955 – Fall 1955: Alexander Samalman

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

initially 15c (rose to 25c by Nov-1948)

Pagecounts

initially 128pp (varied from 112pp - 144pp)

Frequency

bi-monthly, but quarterly Jun-1943 - Fall 1946, and monthly Jan-1952 - Jun-1953

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide

Startling Stories (2006)

Total Issues: 5 (to Jan-2008)

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 2003 – present:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Wild Cat Books
Website:   stores.lulu.com/wildcatbooks
Editors:   Ron Hanna
Formats:   paperback
Prices:   $10.00
Pagecounts:   64pp

Startling Stories (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Startling Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Formats: standard pulp
Sources: Pulpster11

Startling Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 18

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1949 – May-1954:	Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
	Fictionmags Website

Publishers: Pembertons of Manchester
Prices: 1/-



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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Total Issues: 12

Mostly filled with articles about the cast, characters and other features of the "revived" Star Trek series. All issues contain some number of stories, each one a brief prose version of one of the scripts.

Issues & Index Sources: v1, 1987 – v12, 1990:

Miller/Contento

Star Western

Total Issues: 218

Usually ran six or seven novelettes per issue. Authors include Ryerson Johnson (Len Siringo stories), Walt Coburn, Harry F. Olmsted, Cliff Farrell. Cover boasted 'Bigger and Better Stories of the West'.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1933 – Sep-1954:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Popular
Editors:   Rogers Terrill; Michael Tilden
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   mostly monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest



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Star Western [1941] (UK)

British reprint edition of Star Western.

Issues & Index Sources: late 1940s

Publishers: Thorpe & Porter
Formats: pulp

Star Western [1953] (UK)

Total Issues: 2+2=4

British reprint edition of Star Western.

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1953 – Jun-1953

#merges with Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine (UK)

Apr/May-1960 – Jun/Jul-1960

Publishers

Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.

Formats

Apr-1953 – Jun-1953: pulp
Apr/May-1960 – Jun/Jul-1960: digest

Star Western (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Star Western.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Popular Publications Canada
Formats: standard pulp

Starwind

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Steadfast Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1953 – ?

Publishers:   Boys' Brigade
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Sterling Web

Total Issues: 15

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Spring 1989 – Winter 1991:

Miller/Contento

Fall/Winter 1991 – Jan-2002, as The Silver Web:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Buzzcity Press, PO Box 38190, Tallahassee, FL 32315

Editors

Ann Kennedy

Formats

quarto

Pagecounts

64pp (varies)

Frequency

intended as quarterly but became one or two a year

Stim Magazine

Stim Magazine is a publication from Springfield, Missouri. Created in response to a growing number of local newspapers, magazines and tabloids but a declining mass of solid content, Stim is all about stimulating the local creative culture, and therefore will be presenting the best writing of all flavors, visual arts, design, photography, articles and anything else we think is interesting and worthwhile to the public.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-2006 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   2and2is5 Design, Springfield, Missouri, 65806
Website:   stimmag.com
Editors:   Colin Wright
Formats:   5" x 7"

Stirling Penny Stories (New Series)

Issues & Index Sources: 1934 – ?

Publishers: Drummond's Tract Depot, Stirling

Stirling Stories

Issues & Index Sources: 1891 – ?

Publishers: Drummond's Tract Depot, Stirling