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Standard Designer

 see under The Designer

Standard Journal

 see under The Halfpenny Standard Journal

Standard Stories

Total Issues: 11

Mostly reprints; superseded by Best-Story Magazine. Full title Standard Stories incorporating The Smart Set initially at least.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1925 – May-1926: Index to British Popular Fiction (in progress) (FicMags has sample issues only)
Fictionmags Website

#superseded by Best-Story Magazine

Publishers

  Hutchinson and Co., 34-36 Paternoster Row, London EC4

Editors

  probably Evelyn Hornibrook

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  1/-

Pagecounts

  96pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AgeStory

Stanley Ellin's Mystery Magazine

THIS DID NOT EXIST! USA; published "Fool's Mate" by Stanley Ellin, 1948

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1948

Staple New Writing

Mainstream poems and short stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  1982 – ?: Index to Commonwealth Little Magazines (1985 - 1986 only)
Publishers:   Matlock Bath, Derbyshire
Editors:   Bob Windsor & Donald Measham (in 1997)
Frequency:   quarterly

The Star

London evening newspaper that ran from 1888 to 1960.

The Star had a long tradition of publishing short stories and serials, with many well-known authors contributing their work to the paper down the years. Famous writers whose stories appeared in The Star include Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Arthur Conan Doyle, Israel Zangwill, Emile Zola, Walter de la Mare, Katharine Tynan, Ursula Bloom and Richmal Crompton. Fiction featured prominently in The Star for much of its lifespan.

Issues & Index Sources:  1888 – 1960: Index to The Star
Frequency:   daily

Stardate

Total Issues: 11

Fanzine started as a gaming magazine. The focus changed radically for the last 4 issues which published a fair amount of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  198? – Mar/Apr-1986: Miller/Contento

Star Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 11+5=16

Star Detective was a weird menace pulp that ran for 11 issues in the late 1930s before being replaced by Uncanny Tales, which ran for a further 5 issues.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1935 – Nov-1938: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Apr/May-1939 – May-1940, as Uncanny Tales: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  May-1935 – Nov-1938: Western Fiction (Martin Goodman)
  Apr/May-1939 – May-1940: Manvis Publications

Editors

  May-1935 – Nov-1938: James Randall
  Apr/May-1939 – May-1940: Robert O. Erisman

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  May-1935 – Nov-1938: 25c
  Apr/May-1939 – May-1940: 15c

Pagecounts

  May-1935 – Nov-1938: 196pp
  Apr/May-1939 – May-1940: 112pp

Frequency

  irregular, though vaguely quarterly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Stardock

Total Issues: 4

Semi-professional magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1977 – #4, 1979: Miller/Contento

Stardom

 see under Seventeen

Stardust

Total Issues: 5

Amateur magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1940 – Nov-1940: Miller/Contento
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Stardust SF

Total Issues: 9

Semi-professional magazine. The first issue is mispaginated; page numbers 18, 19, 29 & 30 do not exist.

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1975 – v3 #2, 1981: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Stardust Publications, Toronto, Canada

Editors

  Forrest Fusco, Jr.

Formats

  #1, 1975: octavo
  #2, 1976 – #3, 1976: vest pocket sized
  #4, 1977 – v3 #2, 1981: octavo

Prices

  #1, 1975 – v2 #3, 1978/1979: C$1.50
  v3 #1, 1979 – v3 #2, 1981: C$1.95

Pagecounts

  various (48-88pp)

Frequency

  irregular

The Star Journal

 see under Saturday Journal

Star Library

 see under Pluck

Star*Line

Speculative poetry magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: Miller/Contento (incomplete)
Publishers:   SFPA, 1300 Kicker Road, Tuscaloosa, AL 35404
Website:   www.sfpoetry.com
Editors:   David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Email Address:   dragontea@earthlink.net
Formats:   octavo
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   mainly bi-monthly
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Star Love Stories
Issues & Index Sources:  in 1960s
Publishers:   D.C. Thomson
Pagecounts:   68pp

Star Magazine

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1930 – Oct-1931: Cook/Miller
Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Doubleday
Editors:   Roy S. de Horn
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Starman

 see under Perry Rhodan

Star Novels Magazine

Total Issues: 12+18=30

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1931 – Summer 1932, as Star Novels Quarterly: Cook/Miller
  Fall 1932 – Jul/Aug-1935, as Star Novels Magazine: Cook/Miller

Publishers

  Nov-1930 – Oct-1931: Doubleday, Doran
  #1, 1931 – Jul/Aug-1935: H.K. Fly

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  25c

Pagecounts

  256pp

Frequency

  monthly, but quarterly [Win] 1931 - Spring 1934; and last three issues irregular

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
Issue Checklist

Star Novels Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Star Novels Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s
Publishers:   Doubleday, Doran & Co.
Formats:   standard pulp
Issue Checklist

Star Novels Quarterly

 see under Star Novels Magazine

StarQuest

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1994 – Nov/Dec-1994: Miller/Contento (Missing: #2)

Star Roots

Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

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

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