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Swan American Magazine

Total Issues: 17

A rotating genre magazine, with contents of issues varying between detective, sf and western magazines, mostly reprinted from Columbia Magazines. Each individual issue carried the name of an individual magazine, as follows:
  #1 Western Yarns, 1948
  #2 Detective Yarns, 1948
  #3 Crack Detective Stories, 1948
  #4 Famous Western, 1948
  #5 Western Yarns, 1948
  #6 Famous Western, 1948
  #7 Hooded Detective, 1948
  #8 Famous Western, 1948
  #9 Crack Detective, 1948
  #10 Famous Western, 1948
  #11 Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1948
  #12 Complete Cowboy Wild Western Stories,
  #13 Famous Western,
  #14 Complete Cowboy Wild Western Stories,
  #15 Science-Fiction Quarterly, 1950
  #16 Black Hood Detective, 1950

There is also at least #1 of a New Series, which is identical to #1 of the original series.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1946 – 1950:	Miller/Contento
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Editors:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   small pulp
Prices:   9d (#1 - #13), 6d (#14 - #16)
Pagecounts:   36pp (#1 - #13), 48pp (#14 - #16)
Frequency:   irregular but vaguely quarterly



Issue Checklist

Swank

There appear to be four distinct series of the magazine. The first was subtitled "For the Man Who Knows" and looks somewhat like an Esquire clone. It ran from August 1941 to March 1942, and possibly only lasted for 7 issues. Later in the mid 1940s it reappeared as an all-reprint digest subtitled "The Modern Digest for Men", with pieces by known figures like Ambrose Bierce, Humphrey Bogart, Oscar Levant, Earl Wilson.

There was then a brief run in the early 1950s as a girly magazine. Finally, in the mid 1950s, it reappeared as a men's magazine and published stories by Robert Bloch, Avram Davidson, Barry Malzberg, Norman Spinrad, Henry Kuttner and a whole bunch of others.

The volume numbering was restarted for each of the series, except that the final series started at Vol. 3 No. 1.

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1941 – Mar-1942

Aug-1944? – ?

c. 1954

Feb-1956 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  Aug-1941: Elite Publications, Inc. (Victor Fox)
  Sep-1941 – Mar-1942: Swank Magazine, Inc. (Victor Fox)
  in 1946: Swank Magazine Pub. Co.
  c. 1954: Medallion Publishing Corp (a Martin Goodman company)
  in 1961: Royal Publications
  in 1974: Magnum Communications
  Mar-1993: Broadway Pub. Corp
  Feb-1994: Swank Publications Inc.

Editors

in 1946: Arnold Shaw
Feb-1956 – ?: Bruce Jay Friedman

Formats

  1941 – ?: large format
  Aug-1944? – ?: digest
  Feb-1956 – present: standard slick

Prices

1941 – ?: 25c
Aug-1944? – ?: 25c

Frequency

  Aug-1944? – ?: quarterly?
  Feb-1956 – 1959: roughly quarterly
  1960 – 1965: roughly bi-monthly
  1966 – 1989: monthly
  1990 – present: 13 issues a year

Related Sites

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Issue Checklist

Swan Yankee Shorts

see under Yankee Shorts

Sweet Briar

Total Issues: 79

"Saturday supplement to "My Queen" Library.

Issues & Index Sources: 1898 – 1899

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Prices:   ½d
Frequency:   weekly.

Sweet Dreams, Baby! (fnz)

Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1990:

Miller/Contento

Sweetheart Love Stories

Total Issues: 14

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1952 – Sep-1954:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Popular Publications
Editors:   Peggy Graves
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   114pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide