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Big Budget

Country: UK
Total Issues: 614

At various times a boys' comic or story paper, later merged with The Comet. Incorporates: Boys' Leader.

Issues & Index Sources

  19-Jun-1897 – 20-Mar-1909

Publishers

  C. Arthur Pearson, Henrietta St., W.C.

Editors

  1897: William H. Maas
  1897 – 1909: Arthur Brooke [Arthur C. Marshall]
  c. 1897: Herbert Wentworth James (assistant editor)
  1903 – ?: C. Malcolm Hincks [assistant]

Formats

  tabloid, published in sections

Pagecounts

  24pp

Frequency

  weekly (every Wednesday)

Big Budget Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1904: Story Paper Index
Publishers:   C. Arthur Pearson
Formats:   8½ x 5½"
Prices:   3d
Pagecounts:   96pp


Big Chief Western

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1940 – Feb-1941: Western Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Frank A. Munsey Company, NY
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   112pp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western

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The Big Click

Country: US
Total Issues: 25

An electronic magazine of crime fiction with an emphasis on noir, confessional, weird and "literary" fiction that depict and interrogate crime and social trespass.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-2012 – Mar-2016: Crime Fiction Index
Website:   www.thebigclickmag.com
Publishers:   Clockpunk Studios
Prices:   $2.99
Frequency:   bimonthly
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Big Detective

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  1941: Crime Fiction Index (Missing: all issues)
Publishers:   Super Publications
Formats:   standard pulp

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Big Detective Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1948 – ?
Publishers:   Dell Publishing Company Inc., 261 Fifth Ave., New York, NY
Frequency:   annual

Big Detective Cases (Canada)

Country: Canada

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Super Publications

Big Double Feature Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

One-shot consisting of a copy of Ranch Romances and a copy of Black Mask (September 1939) bundled together with a new two-color cover. Exact contents of the issue can vary from copy to copy.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1940: Crime Fiction Index
Western Fiction Index
Publishers:   Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Big Echo

Country: US
Total Issues: 17

A free, online journal of critical science fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-2016 – Oct-2020: Science Fiction Index
Website:   www.bigecho.org
Editors:   William Squirrell
Formats:   online
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Big Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 7 (as at Mar-2017)

Big Fiction "celebrates the soul of the long story: generous, transportive, and a little wild. We are an independent journal publishing ambitious and delicious fiction twice a year, in hand-designed letterpress issues "

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer/Fall 2011 – present
Website:   www.bigfictionmagazine.com
Editors:   Heather Jacobs

The Big Issue

Country: UK

Weekly news magazine distributed by the homeless who keep a portion of the profits. Occasionally publishes fiction by authors like Jeff Noon. Has a number of regional variations such as The Big Issue in the North.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1994? – present: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Website:   www.bigissue.com
Publishers:   The Big Issue
Formats:   A4
Prices:   £1.00
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   weekly

The Big Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

"The Big Magazine was published in order to absorb some of the stories we had inherited with Adventure." Steeger in Xenophile #33 (Jul-1977) p.6

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1935: Adventure Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Popular Publications, NY
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   224pp
Frequency:   planned as monthly
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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BIGnews

Country: US

Monthly news magazine distributed by the homeless who keep a portion of the profits. Most issues have at least one piece of fiction, often by Robert Sheckley.

Issues & Index Sources

  ? – Mar-2005: FictionMags Index (Missing: all issues before Nov-2001)
  Fall 2005: FictionMags Index

Publishers

  Mainchance, A Program of Grand Central Neighborhood Social Services Corporation

Formats

  quarto

Prices

  $1.00
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Big Pulp

Country: US
Total Issues: 11+9=20

Quarterly magazine of SF, fantasy, mystery, horror, and romance fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  Mar-2008 – Sep-2010: General Fiction Index
  Winter 2010 – Summer 2013: General Fiction Index

Website:   www.bigpulp.com

Publishers

  Bill Olver

Editors

  Bill Olver

Frequency

  quarterly
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Big Sports Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1948 – Nov-1948: Sports Fiction Index

Publishers

  May-1948 – Sep-1948: Exclusive Detective Stories, Inc.
  Nov-1948: Atlas News Company, Inc., 366 Madison Ave., New York, NY

Formats

  standard pulp

Frequency

  bimonthly

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines
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Big Story Magazine [1925]

Country: US
Total Issues: 1+9+3=13

Jan-1925 issue is a rebound copy of Ace-High Magazine.

There was also a non-fiction digest magazine of the same title based on radio and TV shows, and edited by Walter B. Gibson, in 1951.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1925: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Jan-1925)
  Jan-1929 – Oct-1929: Western Fiction Index
  Nov-1929 – Jan-1930, as Western Novel Magazine: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Nov-1929)

Publishers

  Western Stories Publishing (Clayton Magazines), NY

Editors

  Fanny Ellsworth

Formats

  standard pulp

Frequency

  monthly

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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