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Blackbird

Country: US

An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts

Issues & Index Sources: 2002 – present

Website: blackbird.vcu.edu
Publishers: Virginia Commonwealth University Department of English and New Virginia Review, Inc.

Blackbook [1996]

Country: US

Arts and culture magazine that occasionally published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1996 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: BlackBook Media Corp.
Editors: Aaron Hicklin

The Black Book [2002]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3

"This magazine is intended as a showcase for work of various sorts in the area of weird fiction, especially that in the oeuvre of H.P. Lovecraft and his coterie of friends and correspondents."

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 2002 – #3, 2003:

Science Fiction Index

Editors: Peter A. Worthy
Formats: ebook


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Black Book Detective Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 95

A fairly average pulp until it introduced the character of The Black Bat crimefighter in the Jul-1939 issue. Stories credited to house name G. Wayman Jones.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1933 – Jan-1941:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Mar-1941 – Winter 1953, as Black Book Detective:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Jun-1933 – Jun-1934: Newsstand Publications
  Aug-1934 – Apr-1935: Lincoln Hoffman
  Jan-1936 – Jun-1937: Ranger Publications, Inc. (Red Circle)
  Mar-1938 – Winter 1953: Better Publications (Standard Magazines)

Editors

Jun-1933 – Jun-1937: Ward Marshall
Mar-1938 – ?: Harvey Burns

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

  Jun-1933 – Jun-1937: monthly, but irregular
  May-1938 – May-1943: bimonthly
  Summer 1943 – Fall 1946: quarterly
  Feb-1947 – May-1949: bimonthly
  Summer 1949 – Winter 1953: quarterly

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Black Book Detective Magazine (Canada)

Country: Canada

Canadian reprint edition of Black Book Detective Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: all except Fall 1946; Oct-1947; Feb-1948; Apr-1948)

Formats: standard pulp
Mentioned in: The Pulpster #11, 2001



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Black Book Detective (UK) (1940)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1?

British reprint edition of Black Book Detective Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1940 – Jun-1940:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   80pp


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Black Book Detective (UK) (1946)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4?

British reprint edition of Black Book Detective Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: 1946 – 1947?:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Pemberton's (of Manchester) Ltd.
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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Black Box Mystery Magazine

This title is listed by Mike Cook in MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, AND ESPIONAGE MAGAZINES as a retitling of {Bakka Magazine}, but closer examination shows that the magazine was still called {Bakka Magazine} and simply used {Black Box} as a subtitle on the seventh issue.

The Black Cat (US)

Country: US
Total Issues: 299+12+8?=319?

A very off-trail magazine which liked to publish unusual stories and featured a large amount of fantasy in its early years. Authors include Jack London, Octavus Roy Cohen, Ellis Parker Butler, Cleveland Moffett, Harry Stephen Keeler, Frank Lillie Pollock.

It is unclear how many issues were published in 1922 and the magazine may have lasted until Apr-1923.