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Magazine Issues

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