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Soldiers of Fortune

Total Issues: 4

Soldiers of Fortune lasted 4 issues from October 1931 to May 1932. It specialized in historical adventure, and in that sense, was a precursor to another short-lived pulp, Golden Fleece. Subtitled "Stories of Glamorous Romance and Adventure In All Lands In All Times", the covers were all painted by Jerry Delano and featured a knight in plate armor (10/31), a Robin Hood-type (12/31), a samurai warrior (2/32) and a Davy Crockett lookalike (5/32).

Perhaps its greatest claim to fame today is the indirect hand it played in the launch of Astounding Stories, as related by Harry Bates in the introduction to Alva Rogers' A REQUIEM FOR ASTOUNDING. At the end of 1929, William Clayton was going to publish a historical adventure pulp, to be called Torchlights of History. The editor he tabbed for the task was Harry Bates, who begged off and instead convinced Clayton to publish a SF magazine. However, Bates could not so easily escape his fate--when Soldiers of Fortune was launched in 1931, he was its editor.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1931 – May-1932: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   William Clayton
Editors:   Harry Bates
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Soldier Stories

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Something Doing

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1900s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Fairman Publishing Co., 51-57 Shelby St., Detroit, Michigan
Editors:   Ellery D. Preston
Prices:   10c
Frequency:   monthy

Something Else

Total Issues: 3

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1980 – Spring 1984: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Pan Visuals, Manchester
Editors:   Charles Partington
Formats:   large format slick (last issue 52pp, \1.50)
Prices:   90p
Pagecounts:   48pp
Frequency:   irregular

Something to Read

Waite states this reached 33 volumes

Issues & Index Sources:  15-Mar-1881 – ?
Publishers:   Brett
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   16pp (+12pp novelette supplement)
Frequency:   weekly

Something Wicked

Total Issues: 10 (tp Sep-2009)

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 2006 – present
Website:   www.somethingwicked.co.za

Songs of Innocence

Total Issues: 5

Celebrates "the nobler, more spiritual aspects of Man, the World and their Creator".

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1999 – #5, 2004: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Michael M. Pendragon, P.O. Box 719, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10101-0719 (in 2002)
Editors:   Michael M. Pendragon (in 2002)
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $5.00
Pagecounts:   104pp
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Sonora Review

Total Issues: 43 (to Dec-2002)

Issues & Index Sources:  1980 – present
Publishers:   English Dept., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.coh.arizona.edu/sonora/
Email Address:   sonora@u.arizona.edu
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Sons of Albion

Total Issues: 36

Issues & Index Sources:  11-Jul-1870 – 6-Mar-1871
Publishers:   W. Williams
Formats:   tabloid (royal quarto)
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

Sons of Britannia

Total Issues: 394

Issues & Index Sources

  14-May-1870 – 15-Jul-1877

#becomes The Champion Journal for Boys

Publishers

  W.L. & G. Emmet

Editors

  William Emmett Lawrence

Formats

  tabloid (royal quarto)

Prices

  1d

Pagecounts

  16pp

Frequency

  weekly

Sons of Old England [1870]

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  16-Nov-1870

Sons of Old England [1883]

Total Issues: 26

Issues & Index Sources:  18-Aug-1883 – 23-Feb-1884
Publishers:   St. George's Publishing Office
Editors:   George Emmett
Pagecounts:   16pp

Sons of Temperance

Issues & Index Sources:  1881 – ?
Frequency:   monthly

Sons of the Brave

Issues & Index Sources:  1896 – ?
Frequency:   monthly

Sorcerer's Apprentice

Total Issues: 16

A fantasy gaming magazine that regularly published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1978 – #17, 1983: Miller/Contento (only fiction and selected articles indexed)
Publishers:   Flying Buffalo Inc., Scottsdale, AZ
Editors:   Ken St. Andre (to Winter 1979), then Liz Danforth
Formats:   A4 glossy
Prices:   $2.25
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   quarterly, tho' Win/Spring 1981 combined as double issue #9/10
 

So to Speak

A "feminist journal of language and art".

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   4400 University Drive, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-444 (in 1998)
Website:   www.gmu.edu/org/sts/
Editors:   rotating editorship

Sound SF: The Tape Magazine

Total Issues: 1

Small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction magazine recorded on tape. This trial issue contains four stories from Auguries and one original story, and was distributed free to subscribers of Exuberance.

Issues & Index Sources:  1993: Miller/Contento


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