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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
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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
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Venus

Subtitled "Tales of Love and Passion".

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1927 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Sources:   UltGuide, Uncovered

Verb

Formerly Treasure House.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – 1998?
Publishers:   Suite 3A, 1106 Oak Hill Avenue, Hagerstown, MD 21742 (in 1998)
Editors:   J.G. Wofensberger (in 1998)
Email Address:   thpublish@aol.com
Frequency:   thrice-yearly

Verbicide Magazine

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Scissor Press, New Haven, CT
Website:   www.scissorpress.com
Editors:   Jackson Ellis
Formats:   bedsheet
Prices:   $3.95
Frequency:   thrice-yearly

Verdict

Total Issues: 4+2+1=7

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1953 – Sep-1953: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Aug-1956 – Nov-1956, as Verdict Crime Detection Magazine: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Jan-1957, as Verdict: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Flying Eagle Publications

Formats

  digest

Prices

  35c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  monthly; 2nd series irregular

Sources

  UltGuide
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Verdict Crime Detection Magazine

see under Verdict

Verdict Detective Story Magazine (Australia)

Total Issues: 9 (at least)

This was not related to the U.S. magazine Verdict, but was in fact an Australasian edition of Manhunt Detective Story Monthly. The May 1955 issue (Vol. 1, No. 3) contains 8 of the 8 stories from the November 1954 issue of Manhunt, together with 1 story taken from the December 1954 issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1955 – Nov-1955?: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Original Novels
Sources:   CookMDE
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Verdict (UK)

Total Issues: 8

British reprint edition with the first four issues reprinting from Verdict and the remaining four issues reprinting from Pursuit.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1953 – Aug-1954: Monthly Murders (Missing: Aug-1954?)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
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Verity

Issues & Index Sources:  mid 1940s
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   2/-

Vernier

Called a 'magazine of salient short stories'.

Frequency:   quarterly

"The Versatile" Library

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  1896
Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.

Vertex

Total Issues: 16

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1973 – Aug-1975: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Mankind Publishing, Los Angeles

Editors

  Donald J. Pfeil

Formats

  Apr-1973 – Apr-1975: slick
  Jun-1975 – Aug-1975: tabloid

Prices

  Apr-1973 – Apr-1975: $1.50
  Jun-1975 – Aug-1975: $1.00

Pagecounts

  Apr-1973 – Apr-1975: 96pp
  Jun-1975 – Aug-1975: 48pp (reducing to 32pp)

Frequency

  bi-monthly
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