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Spicy Stories

Features Risque Stories & Illustrations.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1928 – Jul-1938?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Dover, Delaware
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   UltGuide, Uncovered
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Spicy Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1948
Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7

Spicy Tales

Total Issues: 20

Comic book reprinting comic strips that appeared in the 'Spicy' line of pulps by Frank Armer's Culture Publications.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1988 – Jun-1990
Publishers:   Aircel (Malibu Graphics)
Editors:   Chris Ulm
Formats:   quarto newsprint
Prices:   $1.95 to $2.95
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   monthly (with some gaps)
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Spicy Western Stories

Total Issues: 57+42=99

Note that from 1936 through late 1937, most issues appeared in two different versions - one uncensored and the other self-censored. The censored version was identifiable by a star within a box located at the top of the cover. The interior illustrations were typically "toned down" in the censored versions and some even had variant contents.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1936 – Dec-1942: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Jan-1943 – Jan-1948, as Speed Western Stories: Pulp Magazine Index 2

Publishers

  Nov-1936 – Dec-1942: Culture Publications, NY
  Jan-1943 – Mar-1944: Trojan Publishing
  Apr-1944 – Jan-1946: Arrow Publishing

Editors

  Kenneth W. Hutchinson

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  Nov-1936 – Dec-1942: 25c
  Jan-1943 – Jan-1946: 15c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  mostly bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest, Uncovered
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Spicy Zeppelin Stories

Total Issues: 1

This imaginary title was a long-standing joke amongst pulp fans, representing the ultimate absurd cross-genre magazine. It was probably inevitable that someone would eventually attempt to fabricate a copy. Odyssey Publications, a pulp reprint publisher, made such an attempt, with partner Will Murray writing the entire issue. Unfortunately, Odyssey became dormant shortly thereafter, and the publication languished until 1989, when pulp fan Doug Ellis heard about it and persuaded Murray to let him publish it.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1989: Miller/Contento

The Spider

Total Issues: 118

A character pulp. Most of the novels have a macabre tone that matches that of the horror pulps; many have actual SF/fantasy elements.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1933 – Dec-1943: Miller/Contento
Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Popular Publications

Editors

  1933 – 1942: Rogers Terrill
  in 1943: Robert Turner and Ryerson Johnson

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  Oct-1933 – Mar-1936: 128pp
  Apr-1936 – Dec-1943: 112pp

Frequency

  Oct-1933 – Mar-1943: monthly
  Apr-1943 – Dec-1943: bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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The Spider (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of The Spider.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11
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The Spider (UK)

British reprint edition of The Spider.

Issues & Index Sources:  late 1940s
Publishers:   Thorpe & Porter
Formats:   pulp
Sources:   CookMDE
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Spiderweb

see under Skullduggery

Spies Confidential

Total Issues: 1

Possibly non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1960
Publishers:   H.S. Publishing
Sources:   MansWorld

Spin

Music magazine (?) with some literary content.

Issues & Index Sources:  198? – ?
Frequency:   monthly

Spirit of the Times

Originally a sports and humour magazine but ran increasingly more short stories, especially tales of the frontier; superseded by The Spirit of the Times and Sportsman, retitled Wilkes's Spirit of the Times from 1861 - 1902.

Issues & Index Sources

  10-Dec-1831 – 1856
  1856 – 1861, as Porter's Spirit of the Times

Publishers

  William T. Porter, to 1856; then George Wilkes

Editors

  William T. Porter

Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine

Started as a baseball poetry journal, it quickly evolved into a broader literary magazine that included baseball short fiction, prose, art, and book reviews.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1981 – present
Publishers:   Spitball, P.O. Box 333, Annville, PA 17003
Website:   www.angelfire.com/oh5/spitball
Editors:   Mike Shannon
Prices:   $6
Frequency:   Irregular; bi-annual in 2004

Spit in the Ocean

Total Issues: 6

Literary arts magazine founded by Ken Kesey

Issues & Index Sources:  1974 – 1981: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Editors:   Different editor for each issue
Formats:   5.5" x 8.5"
Prices:   $2.00
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   annual (no issues for 1975 & 1980)

The Spook

Total Issues: 15

The Spook is the world's first fully downloadable consumer magazine in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. It features short fiction by some of today's finest writers, celebrity profiles, and reviews. The Spook is a free publication sponsored by its advertisers.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-2001 – Dec-2002: Miller/Contento

Spoor Anthology

Total Issues: 2

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1974 – #2, 1974: Miller/Contento

Sport Adventure

Men's magazine that published some stories by Barry Malzberg.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1957 – Aug-1957
  Oct-1957 – ?, as Ace: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Four Star Publications, 880 Third Avenue, N.Y.

Sources

  MansWorld


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