The FictionMags Index

Magazines, Listed by Title

Ambit (continued)

• * ___ #70, (Spring) 1977 (Ambit, 60p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #71, (Summer) 1977 (Ambit, 60p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #72, (Autumn) 1977 (Ambit, 75p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #73, Winter (1977) (Ambit, 75p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #74, (Spring) 1978 (Ambit, 75p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #75, (Summer) 1978 (Ambit, 75p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #76, (Autumn) 1978 (Ambit, 75p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #77, (Winter) 1978/1979 (Ambit, 75p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5", cover by Michael Foreman) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #78, (Spring) 1979 (Ambit, 80p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #79, (Summer) 1979 (Ambit, 90p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #80, (Autumn) 1979 (Ambit, 90p, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5", cover by Michael Foreman) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents)
• * ___ #81, (Winter) 1979/1980 (Ambit, £1.00, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents) [Not seen]
• * ___ #82, (Spring?) 1980 (Ambit, £1.00, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5", cover by Chris Orr) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents) [Not seen]
• * ___ #83, (Summer?) 1980 (Ambit, £1.00, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5", cover by Michael Foreman) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents) [Not seen]
• * ___ #84, (Autumn) 1980 (Ambit, £1.20, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5", cover by Ralph Steadman) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents) [Not seen]
• * ___ #85, Spring 1981 (Ambit, £1.20, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5", cover by Michael Foreman) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents) [Not seen]
• * ___ #86, Summer 1981 (Ambit, £1.20, 96pp, 6.5" x 9.5") Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents) [Not seen]
• * ___ #87, Autumn 1981 (Ambit, £1.20, 88pp, 6.5" x 9.5", cover by Mark Foreman) Details taken from photocopy of Table of Contents. [PSP] (Contents) [Not seen]
• * ___ Issue 164, Spring 2001 (Ambit, £5.00, 96pp, tp, cover by Patrick Hughes) [PSP] (Contents)

American Accent Short Story Magazine

• * ___ features
• * ___ v 1 #5, 1990 (American Accent Publishing, $2.25, 160pp, digest, cover by Tom Eells) Magazine of “new dynamic stories by America’s new authors”. (Contents)

American Agent

• * ___ features
• * ___ v 1 #2, August 1957 (Republic Features Syndicate, Inc., 35¢, 128pp+, digest, cover by Victor Olson) (Contents)

American Autopsy

• * ___ features

The American Autopsy

• * ___ v 1 #1, January 1932 (Headquarters Publishing Company, Inc., 35¢, 256pp+, 8" x 11") [JL] (Contents)

The American Boy

• * ___ features
• * ___ v 7 # 4, February 1906 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 28pp+, 10¾" x 16¼") pages 115 and 116 are missing. [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v 9 # 1, November 1907 (15¢, 11" x 15¾") Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ v12 # 5, March 1911 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp, 11" x 16") [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v12 # 6, April 1911 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) given as v12 #7 on cover. [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v12 # 8, June 1911 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v12 #10, August 1911 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v14 # 7, May 1913 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) [Robert Beasecker] (Contents)
• * ___ v14 # 9, July 1913 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp, 11" x 16", cover by Harrison Cady) [Robert Beasecker] (Contents)
• * ___ v14 #12, October 1913 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) [Robert Beasecker] (Contents)
• * ___ v15 # 4, February 1914 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ v15 # 5, March 1914 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v15 # 6, April 1914 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v15 # 7, May 1914 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 36pp+, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v15 #10, August 1914 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16") [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v15 #11, September 1914 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16", cover by M. Leone Bracker) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v16 # 8, June 1915 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 36pp, 11" x 16", cover by W. W. Clarke) [Robert Beasecker] (Contents)
• * ___ v17 # 2, December 1915 (The Sprague publishing Co. 10¢, 52pp+, 11" x 16", cover by Harrison Cady) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v17 # 8, June 1916 (The Sprague Publishing Co. 10¢, 36pp+, 11" x 16", cover by R. S. Cuthbertson) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v17 #11, September 1916 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 10¢, 32pp+, 11" x 16", cover by J. E. Allen,[?]) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ February 1919 (10½" x 14") Information from EBAY ToC scan. (Contents)
• * ___ January 1922 (20¢, 50pp, 10½" x 14", cover by G. Gardner Riehard) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ February 1922 (20¢, 50pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Ernest Fuller) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ February 1923 (20¢, 68pp, 10½" x 14", cover by F. C. Yohn) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ May 1923 (20¢, 58pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Frank E. Schoonover) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ June 1923 (20¢, 58pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Harold Lund) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ July 1923 (20¢, 58pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Frank E. Schoonover) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ October 1923 (20¢, 58pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Charles H. Towne) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ November 1923 (cover: photo, 20¢, 66pp, 10½" x 14") from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ December 1923 (20¢, 74pp, cover: “.P.”) from my copy. [RH] (Contents)
• * ___ October 1925 (20¢, 68pp, 10½" x 14", cover by F. C. Yohn) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ November 1925 (20¢, 84pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Paul Bransom) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ March 1926 (68pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Paul Bransom) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ November 1926 (88pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Clara Elsene Peck) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ October 1927 (66pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Edgar F. Wittmack) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ November 1927 (80pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Walter Beach Humphrey) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ January 1928 (60pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Paul Bransom) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ v103 # 9, July 1929 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 64pp, 11" x 14", cover by Anton Otto Fischer) [STM] (Contents)

American Boy

• * ___ v103 #12, October 1929 (Sprague Publishing Company, 20¢, 76pp, 11" x 14", cover by W. F. Soare) combined with Youth’s Companion beginning with this issue. [STM] (Contents)

The Youth’s Companion combined with American Boy

• * ___ v104 # 3, February 1930 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 60pp, 11" x 14", cover by Albin Henning) [STM] (Contents)

The American Boy

• * ___ v104 # 7, July 1930 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 68pp, 11" x 14", cover by W. F. Soare) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v104 # 8, August 1930 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 60pp, 11" x 14", cover by Dudley Gloyne Summers) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v104 # 9, September 1930 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 68pp, 11" x 14", cover by Lynn Bogue Hunt) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v104 #10, October 1930 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 68pp, 11" x 14", cover by Courtney Allen) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v105 # 2, February 1931 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 60pp, 11" x 14", cover by Frank Spradling) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v105 # 5, May 1931 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 72pp, 11" x 14", cover by Manning de V. Lee) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v105 #10, October 1931 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 56pp, 11" x 14", cover by J. F. Kernan) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v105 #11, November 1931 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 60pp, 11" x 14", cover by Albin Henning) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v105 #12, December 1931 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 60pp, 11" x 14", cover by Russell Sambrook) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v106 # 1, January 1932 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 52pp, 10¾" x 14", cover by Russell Sambrook) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v106 # 2, February 1932 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 52pp, 10¾" x 14", cover by Albin Henning) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v106 # 4, April 1932 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 60pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Manning de V. Lee) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v106 # 5, May 1932 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 64pp, 10¾" x 14", cover by Russell Sambrook) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v106 # 7, July 1932 (The Sprague Publishing Co., 20¢, 52pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Albin Henning) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ November 1932 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 64pp, 10¾" x 14", cover by Russell Sambrook) [LB] (Contents)

The American Boy - Youth’s Companion

• * ___ December 1932 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 64pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Russell Sambrook) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ v107 # 3, March 1933 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 52pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Orson Lowell) (NB: This issue says “Publication Office” is in Chicago, “Administrative Office” is in Detroit) [JB] (Contents)

The American Boy

• * ___ v108 # 2, February 1934 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 20¢, 44pp, 10½" x 14", cover by Edgar Franklin Wittmack) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v108 # 5, May 1934 (The Sprague Publications, Inc., ed. Griffith Ogden Ellis, 20¢, 52pp, large slick, cover by William F. Soare) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v108 #10, October 1934 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 52pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Edgar Franklin Wittmack) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v108 #12, December 1934 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 60pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Lowell L. Balcom) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v109 # 3, March 1935 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 44pp, 10½" x 13½") There is some ambiguity about the proper title of the magazine. On the cover it says YOUTH’S COMPANION [smaller type] combined with AMERICAN BOY [larger type]. However, the copyright/second class mailing notice at the front says THE AMERICAN BOY—YOUTH’S COMPANION. The contents page—actually, a contents box, taking up probably 20% or less of the last page of the magazine before the back cover, in the same type size and style as the magazine text—has the first variation at the head and lists the second in the editorial address. This is quite a handsome magazine. The cover, illustrating the story “Wolves,” is a fairly striking colored drawing (in my near-total ignorance I’d guess pastels and colored pencils, though the contents says “Cover Painting by Paul Bransom”) of several wolves, looking smarter than you’d like them to be against a stylized mountain-scape, colors mostly muted, but well suited to impress in this large size. The cover advertises “Wolves” in modest type, but places the “New Sea Serial,” “‘WIND IN THE RIGGING,’ by Howard Pease,” in much larger type. Inside, the illustrations are frequent, pretty competent, and partly in color for the two cover stories. There’s a reasonably large illustration on every page of the fiction contents through about page 27, and the non-fiction items are illustrated either with photographs or small drawings. Advertising is fairly profuse and includes both the small ads familiar from the pulps (but no trusses or Sex Knowledge) and larger display ads for the likes of Kellogg’s PEP Bran Flakes, Ford, and Corona (“Us authors are all for this silent Corona.”) The paper is slick but not glossy; I’m sure there’s a proper description for this but I don’t know it. The Howard Pease serial features seaman Tod Moran, about whom I was reading 20 years later in book form in the public library of Childersburg, Alabama; there was a whole series of books about his exploits. “Fitzsimmons’ Shift” is a boxing story: “Jerry Coiner, the best lightweight Dunbar had ever seen, decided he didn’t care to have a cream puff for a roommate!” “Wolves” is billed as “A Story of Cowboys and Bawling Cattle.” “Steve Merrill, Engineer,” it says here, is about an electrical engineer who is forced to turn detective, and fears discovering corruption in his own family. There’s a splendid illustration of a factory floor with a couple of working stiffs carrying something pretty heavy, and the caption (presumably a line from the story): “In the shop, the bolted-down presses crashed and smashed out the bedlam of their incessant war on steel.” I’m reminded of Brian Aldiss’s remark that the early Campbell-era ASTOUNDING presented “the fiction of industrial process.” Well, this looks like the real stuff. “Fresh Water Irish” is another nautical story, except it’s on the Great Lakes, Duluth to Thunder Bay. (“A troubled frown wrinkled Clyde Gallagher’s youthful forehead. His slender, erect body moved restlessly beside the after window of the Heekin’s pilot house as he watched the red iron ore slither down the chutes into the yawning hold.” More industrial process.) “Outbound to Jupiter” is not particularly good, at least as far as I’ve gotten in it; young squirt signs on to a ship to Jupiter, but that seems to be a frame for a long reminiscence by the wise old skipper about events on the Mercury run 20 years previously. The stories del Rey anthologized were much better. I had previously wondered why van Dresser didn’t publish much in the SF magazines (he had one story in AMAZING in 1930, and a couple of science articles in ASTOUNDING). Maybe he wasn’t that good that often. Or, more likely, AMERICAN BOY paid a lot more and liked his work just fine. Does anybody know anything about van Dresser? Did he write in other fields? Publish books? [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v109 # 5, May 1935 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 56pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Albin Henning) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v109 # 8, August 1935 (The Sprague Publishing Company, Inc., 10¢, 44pp, large slick, cover by Orson Lowell) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v109 # 9, September 1935 (The Sprague Publishing Company, Inc., 10¢, 44pp, large slick, cover by Paul Bransom) [STM] (Contents)
• * ___ v109 #10, October 1935 (The Sprague Publishing Company, Inc., 10¢, 44pp, large slick, cover by Lee Brown) [MW] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 1, January 1936 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 52pp, 10½" x 13¾", cover by Edgar Franklin Wittmack) NB: Now the business and editorial offices are both listed as Detroit. [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 2, February 1936 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 44pp, 10½" x 13¾", cover by Paul Branson) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 3, March 1936 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 44pp, 10½" x 13¾", cover by William Heaslip) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 4, April 1936 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 52pp, 10½" x 13¾", cover by Lee Brown) NB: author Vereen Bell is now listed as Assistant Managing Editor. [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 5, May 1936 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 52pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Russell Sambrook) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 6, June 1936 (The Sprague Publishing Company, Inc., 10¢, 10½" x 13½", cover by Edgar Franklin Wittmack) [MW] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 7, July 1936 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 34pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Manning de V. Lee) Information from EBAY auction. [MW] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 8, August 1936 (The Sprague Publishing Company, Inc., 10¢, 10½" x 13½", cover by W. F. Soare) [MW] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 # 9, September 1936 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 34pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Manning de V. Lee) Elmer P. Grierson, General Manager / Franklin M. Reck, Managing Editor / Walter Adams, Assistant Editor / Vereen Bell, Assistant Managing Editor / Mark L. Haas, Art Editor. Information from EBAY auction. [MW] (Contents)
• * ___ v110 #11, November 1936 (Sprague Publishing Co.; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 40pp, 10¼" x 13½", cover by Paul Bransom) [JB] (Contents)
• * ___ January 1937 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 38pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Edgar Franklin Wittmack) Information from EBAY auction. (Contents)
• * ___ v111 # 2, February 1937 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 38pp, 10½" x 13½", cover by Edgar Franklin Wittmack) Information from EBAY auction. [MW] (Contents)
• * ___ v111 # 5, May 1937 (Sprague Publications; Detroit, MI, 10¢, 10½" x 13½", cover by Manning de V. Lee) [MW] (Contents)