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Sirius*Visions

Total Issues: 9

Semi-prozine.

Issues & Index Sources

  v1 #0, 1993 – v1 #8, 1995: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Claddagh Press, Portland, OR

Editors

  Marybeth O'Hallaran

Formats

  v1 #0, 1993 – v1 #4, 1994: tabloid
  v1 #5, 1995 – v1 #8, 1995: quarto

Prices

  v1 #0, 1993 – v1 #4, 1994: $2.25
  v1 #5, 1995 – v1 #8, 1995: $2.50

Pagecounts

  v1 #0, 1993 – v1 #4, 1994: 16pp
  v1 #5, 1995 – v1 #8, 1995: 32pp

Frequency

  roughly six-weekly, based on Celtic dates

Six-Gun Western [1937]

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1937 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Red Circle
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Six-Gun Western [1946]

Total Issues: 17

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1946 – Dec-1950: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Trojan Publishing
Formats:   standard pulp; digest in 1950
Frequency:   quarterly, but suspended Mar-1947 - Aug-1948
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Six-Gun Western (UK)

British reprint edition of Six-Gun Western.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950
Publishers:   Thorpe & Porter
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-

Six-Gun Western Stories

see under New All-Action Stories

The Sixpenny Magazine

Total Issues: 81

Subtitled "a miscellany for all classes and all seasons." Published first full serialization of Mary E. Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" (1862) and, in the same year, "The Experiences of a Real Detective" by Inspector F (i.e. William Russell)

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1861 – Mar-1868
Publishers:   Ward & Lock
Formats:   octavo

Six Shooter Western

Spoof magazine listed on the Adventure House website on April 1st 2001, together with a faked cover.

Six Star Books

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  1946
Publishers:   Bairns Books
Formats:   pocket
Pagecounts:   36pp

Sizzle

Issues & Index Sources:  1959 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Sizzling Detective Mysteries

see under Snappy Detective Mysteries

Sizzling Romances

see under Snappy Romances

Sizzling Stories

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1934 – ?
Sources:   Uncovered

Skeleton Crew

Total Issues: 4+10=14

Semi-professional magazine for issues 1-5. Starting with v2 #1 it became a slick professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1988 – #5, 1989: Miller/Contento
  Jul-1990 – Apr-1991: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  #1, 1988 – #5, 1989: Dave Hughes, Wickford
  Jul-1990 – Apr-1991: Argus Specialist Publication, Hemel Hempstead

Editors

  #1, 1988 – #5, 1989: Dave Hughes & Nick Belcher
  Jul-1990: Dave Hughes
  Aug-1990 – Apr-1991: Dave Reeder

Formats

  #1, 1988 – #5, 1989: digest pamphlet
  Jul-1990 – Apr-1991: A4 semi-glossy

Pagecounts

  #1, 1988 – #5, 1989: 48pp (varied)
  Jul-1990 – Apr-1991: 64pp

Frequency

  2nd series, monthly
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The Sketch

Total Issues: 2989

Ran two or three stories per issue, often society stories but also mysteries. Ran first Agatha Christie "Poirot" stories (1923) and also a series called "Tales With a Sting" including stories by Edwin Baird, E.M. Delafield, Marjorie Bowen.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Feb-1893 – 17-Jun-1959: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Illustrated London News & Sketch

Editors

  1893 – 1899: Clement Shorter & J.M. Bulloch
  1899 – 1902: John Latey
  1902 – 1904: John Keble Ball
  1905 – 1959: Bruce Ingram

Formats

  glossy large-size slick in the 1920s?

Frequency

  weekly

Sources

  AgeStory

Sketch Book and Printer's Pie

see under Printers' Pie

Sketchy Bits

Total Issues: 782

A humorous weekly journal of drama, sport & fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  29-Apr-1895 – 9-May-1910: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   "Sketchy Bits" Company Ltd., 1 & 3 Hind Court, Fleet Street, London EC
Editors:   Harry Shurey
Formats:   slim, saddle-stapled magazine on pulp paper, heavily illustrated
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Skipper [1930]

Total Issues: 543

Issues & Index Sources:  6-Sep-1930 – 1-Feb-1941
Publishers:   D.C. Thomson
Editors:   Andrew C. Hunter
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   28pp
Frequency:   weekly
 

The Skipper [1936]

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1936 – Dec-1937: Cook/Miller
Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Editors:   John L. Nanovic
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Skull

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  v1 #1, 1994 – v1 #2, 1994: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   ASfraid Publishing, Burbank, CA.

Skullduggery

Total Issues: 8+4=12

A short-lived small-press magazine that ran for 8 issues under the title Skullduggery and then a further 4 issues under the title Spiderweb

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1980 – Fall 1981: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Winter 1982 – Fall 1982, as Spiderweb: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Jan-1980 – Jun-1980: Cook-McDowell
  Winter 1981 – Summer 1981: Skullduggery Magazine, PO Box 191, MIT Branch Station, Cambridge MA 02139
  Fall 1981 – Fall 1982: Corsair Press, PO Box 191, MIT Branch Station, Cambridge MA 02139

Editors

  Jan-1980 – Jun-1980: Michael Cook
  Winter 1981 – Spring 1981: Will Murray
  Summer 1981 – Fall 1982: Karen Shapiro & William Desmond

Formats

  digest

Prices

  $2.00 rising to $2.50

Pagecounts

  52pp

Sources

  CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Sky Aces

Total Issues: 15

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1938 – Apr-1941: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Ace Magazines

Editors

  A.A. Wyn

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  15c

Pagecounts

  96pp

Frequency

  Jun-1938 – Dec-1939: quarterly
  Feb-1940 – Apr-1941: bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
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