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Vanity Fair (UK) [1949]

A British version of the American title (which was not actually extant in 1949, but revived later).

Issues & Index Sources: 1949 – ?

Publishers:   Conde Nast, London
Formats:   big slick
Frequency:   monthly

Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine

Total Issues: 19

Issues & Index Sources

v1 #1, 1954 – v1 #3, 1954:

Miller/Contento

v1 #4, 1954 – v1 #5, 1954, as Vargo Statten British Science Fiction Magazine:

Miller/Contento

v1 #6, 1954 – v1 #12, 1955, as British Science Fiction Magazine:

Miller/Contento

v2 #1, 1955 – v2 #7, 1955, as British Space Fiction Magazine:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Scion to Nov-1954 then Dragon Publications, Luton.

Editors

Alistair Paterson to Nov-1954, then John Russell Fearn

Formats

  v1 #1, 1954 – v1 #3, 1954: small pulp
  v1 #4, 1954 – v1 #9, 1954: large digest
  v1 #11, 1955 – v2 #7, 1955: pocketbook

Prices

1/6d

Pagecounts

v1 #1, 1954 – v1 #3, 1954: 64pp
v1 #4, 1954 – v2 #7, 1955: 128pp

Frequency

mostly monthly, but gaps

Varieties

Total Issues: 127

Split into two 16 page sections, 1-24 includes Story Varieties supplement which becomes Pictorial Varieties supplement with issue 25.

Issues & Index Sources

20-Feb-1893 – 25-Jul-1896

#becomes The Garland

Publishers

James Henderson

Editors

Alfred W. Barratt?

Pagecounts

32pp

Frequency

weekly

Variety Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 8+8=16

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1938 – Dec-1939:	Pulp Magazine Index 3
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Feb-1940 – Apr-1941, as Lone Wolf Detective:	Pulp Magazine Index 2
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

Ace Magazines

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c

Frequency

mostly bi-monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Variety Love Stories

Total Issues: 49

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1938 – May-1949:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Ace Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Variety Novels Magazine

Total Issues: 1

Probably changed to 12 Adventure Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1938:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Ace Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Variety Sports Magazine

see under 12 Sports Aces

Variety Story Magazine

Total Issues: 2

Probably changed to 10 Action Adventures.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1938 – Oct-1938

Publishers:   Ace Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Variety Western

see under Super Western Magazine

Varsity

Cambridge University student newspaper which published J. G. Ballard's first short story, "The Violent Noon" (26 May 1951).

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1947 – present?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Website: www.varsity.cam.ac.uk
Frequency: weekly?

VB Tech Journal

A programmer's technical publication that regularly featured fiction in the first volume (only).

Issues & Index Sources: v1 #1, 1995 – v1 #8, 1995:

Miller/Contento

Velocities

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 198? – #5, 1988:

Miller/Contento

(Missing: all except #4, #5)

Vengeance Shorts

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1945 – May-1946:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   digest
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   36pp


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The Venture (1928)

Total Issues: 6

"The Venture, tastefully produced, adorned with woodcuts and filled with neo-Georgian poems and stories, was in reality an undergraduate heir to Sir John Squire's London Mercury."

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1928 – Jun-1930

Editors: Anthony Blunt (Nov 1928-Jun 1929), H. Romilly Fedden & Michael Redgrave

Venture (1953)

Small magazine with articles, short stories, poetry and book reviews. Subtitled "The Baylor Literary Quarterly".

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1953 – ?

Publishers:   Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Formats:   6" x 9¼"
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   42pp

Venture Action Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1940:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Venture, St Elmo, Tennessee
Formats:   large pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide


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Venture Science Fiction

Total Issues: 10+6=16

Suspended from 1958 to 1969, during which time it was "incorporated" into The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

#1, 1957 – #10, 1958:

Miller/Contento

#11, 1969 – #16, 1970:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

1st series, Fantasy House; 2nd series, Mercury Press

Editors

1st series, Robert P. Mills; 2nd series, Edward L. Ferman

Formats

digest

Prices

35c; 2nd series 60c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

bi-monthly

Sources

UltGuide

Venture Science Fiction (UK)

Total Issues: 28

British reprint of stories from F&SF and Venture

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1963 – #28, 1965:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co., Ltd., London, England.
Editors:   Ronald Wickers
Formats:   digest
Prices:   2/6d-3/-
Pagecounts:   112pp-128pp
Frequency:   monthly