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Snappy Detective Stories

Total Issues: 2

Following the initial success of Spicy Detective Stories the publishers attempted to reserve the "Spicy" adjective for themselves by producing ashcan issues for two proposed companion titles, Spicy Mystery Stories and Spicy Adventure Stories.

Simultaneously, the same publishers (Harry Donenfeld & Frank Armer) produced three more ashcan issues, for a parallel line of "Snappy" titles. Each of these issues was 12 pages long and was dated July 1934. The three Snappies never did achieve real publication but, for reasons unknown, a second set of ashcan issues was prepared and copyrighted. They were a bit more substantial than the first issues (36 pages) and were all dated May 1935.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1934 – May-1935: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Trojan Publishing (#1), Culture Publications (#2)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Snappy Mystery Stories

Total Issues: 2

Following the initial success of Spicy Detective Stories the publishers attempted to reserve the "Spicy" adjective for themselves by producing ashcan issues for two proposed companion titles, Spicy Mystery Stories and Spicy Adventure Stories.

Simultaneously, the same publishers (Harry Donenfeld & Frank Armer) produced three more ashcan issues, for a parallel line of "Snappy" titles. Each of these issues was 12 pages long and was dated July 1934. The three Snappies never did achieve real publication but, for reasons unknown, a second set of ashcan issues was prepared and copyrighted. They were a bit more substantial than the first issues (36 pages) and were all dated May 1935.

The contents of the second issue are not known; the Library of Congress can no longer find its copy, and no other has yet surfaced.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1934 – May-1935: Cook/Miller (Missing: May-1935)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Trojan Publishing (#1), Culture Publications (#2)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Snappy Romances

Total Issues: 2+3+7?=10?

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1935 – Jun-1935
  Jul-1935 – Sep-1935, as Sizzling Romances: Fictionmags Website (Missing: Jul-1935, Sep-1935)
  Jan-1936 – Jul-1936, as Real Breezy Romances: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)

Publishers

  May-1935 – Jun-1935: Edmar Publishing
  Jul-1935 – Sep-1935: Nudeal Publishing Co.
  Jan-1936 – Jul-1936: Best Publishers

Formats

  May-1935 – Jun-1935: standard pulp
  Jul-1935 – Jul-1936: bedsheet

Prices

  25c

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, Uncovered

Snappy Stories

Total Issues: 316+ (possibly 321)

An early example of liberated fiction full of free women!

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug-1912 – Feb-1927: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Apr-1927 – May-1928, as Snappy Stories and Pictures
  1930 – 1932?, as Snappy Stories

Publishers

  1912 – 1928: New Fiction Publishing
  1930 – ?: Lowell Publications Inc.

Editors

  Virgina O'Day, Alexander Samalman

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  20c

Frequency

  Aug-1912 – Aug-1915: monthly
  Sep-1915 – Nov-1926: twice-monthly
  Dec-1926 – May-1928: irregular

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, Uncovered
 
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Snappy Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1949: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Pagecounts:   32pp

Snaps: A Comic Weekly of Comic Stories by Comic Authors

Total Issues: 72

All stories reprinted from Five Cent Comic Library.

Issues & Index Sources:  11-Oct-1899 – 20-Feb-1901
Publishers:   Frank Tousey
Formats:   8" x 11"
Prices:   5c
Frequency:   weekly

Snap Shots

Total Issues: 905

Humorous magazine created chiefly from advance proofs and blocks of the American papers Puck, Life, and Judge. Possibly published some Sherlock Holmes parodies.

Issues & Index Sources:  9-Aug-1890 – 19-Nov-1907
Prices:   1d

Society Spanking Stories

Total Issues: 3?

Flagellation magazine containing various stories about corporal punishment and a correspondence section on the same. Despite being published in France, this was targeted at a British audience.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s
Publishers:   Les Beaux Oeuvres, Establissement H. P., 43 Chaussee d'Antin, Paris
Prices:   2/6d

Socko

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
Prices:   2/6d

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
Issue Checklist

Soldier Stories

see under Detective Classics

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)


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