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Magazine Issues

Utopian Booklets

Total Issues: 3

Booklet series.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1946 – Jun-1946:

Miller/Contento

Utter Entropy

Total Issues: 1

Original anthology of short-short stories, issued as a free supplement to accompany Sierra Heaven #4.

Issues & Index Sources: 1997:

Miller/Contento

The Vagrant

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1916 – Spring 1927:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: #1, #2, #3, #9)

Valor

Subtitled "Adventures of Courage", published a considerable amount of fiction, together with a nude centerfold.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1968 – ?

Publishers:   Charlton
Editors:   Joe Gill
Formats:   quarto

Valor For Men

Total Issues: 15+

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1957 – Oct-1959?

Publishers: Skye Publishing
Sources: MansWorld

Vampire Dan's Story Emporium

Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources: Winter/Spring 1997 – Winter 2001:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Daniel Medici, PO Box 252, Syracuse, NY 13215
Editors:   Daniel Medici
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $4.00
Pagecounts:   56
Frequency:   irregular

The Vampire Journal

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #4, 1988:

Miller/Contento

(sample issue only)

Vampires

Total Issues: 1?

In some early sources assumed to be a horror publication, which it is not. Cover blurb announces "Tales, historic and modern, of women whose careers challenge the claim of the males as the stronger sex".

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1927

Sources: UltGuide, Uncovered

The Vampire's Crypt

Total Issues: 25

This series of vampire genre fanzines is generally PG-13, some nudity in the art and a few R-rated stories. Featuring original vampire fiction, some interviews with well-known genre authors, and book reviews.

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 1989 – Spring 2002

Website:   members.aol.com/MLCVamp/vampcrpt.htm
Editors:   Margaret L. Carter
Pagecounts:   96pp

The Vanguard [1923]

Total Issues: 136

Boys' story paper.

Issues & Index Sources: 15-Oct-1923 – 22-May-1926

Publishers:   D.C. Thomson, 12 Fetter Lane, London E.C.4
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   28pp
Frequency:   weekly (every Wednesday)

Vanguard [196?]

Religious paper which published "stories, features and pictures on Christian themes for youth; heroic, sport, missionary, etc."

Issues & Index Sources: ? – in 1970s

Editors:   Bernard Watson (c. 1966); Malcolm Bale (c. 1971)
Prices:   9d; 7p
Frequency:   monthly

The Vanguard Library

Total Issues: 152

A change occurred in 1910 which saw the original run of the Vanguard as a Magnet-sized weekly come to an end and announced (#137) that the following week the paper would become Vanguard Library of Football, Sport and Adventure; however, the new paper was relaunched with issue 139. Had a larger paper size thereon, but lasted only three months.

Entitled The Vanguard Library, 1-137; Vanguard Library of Football, Sport and Aventure, 139-153

Issues & Index Sources: 4-May-1907 – 12-Apr-1910:

Story Paper Index

(incomplete)

Publishers:   Trapps Holmes
Editors:   Henry T. Johnson (c. 1910)
Prices:   ½d
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   weekly (every Tuesday)

Vanguard Science Fiction

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1958:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Vanguard Science Fiction, New York
Editors:   James Blish
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   UltGuide

Vanity Fair [1859]

Humour magazine with cartoons and poetry. Ran serials (often spoofs) inc. work by Charles F. Browne (as Artemus Ward) and FitzHugh Ludlow.

Issues & Index Sources: 31-Dec-1859 – 4-Jul-1863

Publishers:   L.H. Stepens
Editors:   W.A. Stephens
Frequency:   weekly (but Jan-1861 and Feb-1861 monthly)

Vanity Fair (US)

Originally a magazine of music, sports and drama, after its takeover by by Nast, and under Crowninshield's famous editorship, it became one of the leading society arts magazines in America. Authors of fiction included Lord Dunsany. In its revived latter-day form, it has continued to publish some fiction, including work by Norman Mailer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, etc.

Briefly retitled Dress and Vanity Fair, 1913 - 1914.