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Fun

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2089

A deliberate but cheap imitation of Punch. Although mostly non-fiction and illustrative it did run fiction, especially by Ambrose Bierce and W.S. Gilbert. Merges with Sketchy Bits in 1901.

Issues & Index Sources

21-Sep-1861 – 10-Aug-1901

#merges with Sketchy Bits

Publishers

  Sep-1861 – May-1865: Charles Maclean
  May-1865 – Dec-1869: Edward Wylam
  Jan-1870 – Aug-1893: Dalziel Brothers
  Jan-1901 – Jul-1901: George Newnes

Editors

  1861 – 1865: Henry J. Byron
  1865 – 1874: Tom Hood
  1874 – 1878: Henry Sampson
  1878 – 1893: Charles Dalziel

Formats

tabloid

Prices

Frequency

weekly

Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 3

Online Sources

Online Books

Fun and Fiction [1911]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 124

Issues & Index Sources

14-Oct-1911 – 21-Feb-1914:

Story Paper Index

(sample issues only)

#becomes The Firefly

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

A. Donnelly Aitken; F.G. Cordwell (Managing Editor)

Prices

Frequency

weekly



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Fun and Fiction [1929]

Country: UK

Weekly movie magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: 16-Feb-1929 – ?

Fun and Frolic

Country: US

Cartoon & pictorial only?

Issues & Index Sources: 1945 – ?

(possibly non-fiction)

Fun Club Magazine

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1935 – ?

(1 - Vol. 3 No. 11?)

#becomes supplement to Bon Marche Fun Club Magazine

Publishers

Coury; Bon Marche

Pagecounts

12pp

Fun for All

Country: US

Mentioned in Henry Steeger's article in Pulp Era #67.

Issues & Index Sources: 1939 – ?

Publishers: Popular Publications

Fun for One

Country: US

Mentioned in Henry Steeger's article in Pulp Era #67.

Issues & Index Sources: 1938 – ?

Publishers: Popular Publications

Fungi (Quarterly)

Country: US
Total Issues: 19+3=22

Amateur magazine, subtitled "The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and the Supernatural".

Issues & Index Sources

Spring 1984 – Winter 2000:

Science Fiction Index

Spring 2011 – Jul-2015:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: #22, Jul-2015)

Website: www.pierrevcomtois.com/fungi-magazine.html

Publishers

Fungoid Press; Lowell, MA

Editors

Pierre Comtois

Formats

quarto

Prices

$9.00

Pagecounts

Frequency

irregular



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Fungi Christmas Supplement

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: 1985:

Science Fiction Index


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Fun-Magic-Mystery

Country: US

Tabloid periodical that included some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1934 – ?

Publishers: Johnson, Smith & Co., Racine, Wisconsin

Funny Books

Country: US
Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources:  1901: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York
Formats:   7" x 5"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   250
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Funny Folks

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1014

Subtitled "a weekly budget of funny pictures, funny notes, funny jokes, funny stories" this marked a shift from a comic journal to an illustrated comic paper. Its circulation reached 60,000 a week in 1876.

Issues & Index Sources: 12-Dec-1874 – 28-Apr-1894

Publishers:   James Henderson
Editors:   1880 – 1882: William Kingston Sawyer
Formats:   11.5" x 16.75"; later reduced in size to 8.75" x 1.25"
Pagecounts:   8pp; later increased to 16pp
Frequency:   weekly

Funny Shorts

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1946: FictionMags Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   digest
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   36pp

Funny Stories

Country: US

Magazine contains "stories of burlesque of an adult nature".

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1928 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   The Erie Publishing Company, 6007 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH; 1005 Ulmer Building, Cleveland, OH
Editors:   Jack Dinsmore
Mentioned in:   Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps