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Oliver Optic's Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 269

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1867 – Dec-1875: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Lee & Shepard, Boston
Editors:   Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams)
Formats:   7" x 10"
Prices:   $3.00 per year
Pagecounts:   80pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Olive Wadsley's Weekly

Country: UK

Story and fashion weekly.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Apr-1924 – 21-Jun-1924
  18-Jun-1924 – 1-Nov-1924, as Olive's Own

Prices

  2d

Frequency

  weekly

Omega Science Digest

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 37

The Australian edition of Science Digest. The US edition is strictly a non-fiction magazine, but the Australian edition included original fiction as a regular part of every issue and thus more closely resembled Omni.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan/Feb-1981, as Omega: Science Fiction Index (only fiction indexed)
  Mar/Apr-1981 – Jan/Feb-1987, as Omega Science Digest: Science Fiction Index (only fiction indexed)

Publishers

  Fairfax Magazines, Sydney, Australia

Editors

  Philip Gore

Formats

  A4 slick

Prices

  AS2.50

Pagecounts

  132pp

Frequency

  bimonthly

Related Sites

  Science Fiction Encyclopedia
 
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Omenana

Country: Nigeria
Total Issues: 27 (as at Jan-2024)

A tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-2014 – present: Science Fiction Index (Missing: any after #27, Oct-2023)
Website:   www.omenana.com
Publishers:   Sevenhills Media, 13 Kasimawo Tijani Street, Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos, Nigeria
Editors:   Mazi Nwonwu
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Omicron

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1979: Science Fiction Index
Publishers:   Omicron Publications, Victoria, Australia.

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Omni

Country: US
Total Issues: 200+3=203

High gloss popular science magazine which regularly ran science fiction

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1978 – Winter 1995: Science Fiction Index (only fiction indexed)
  Winter 2016 – present: Science Fiction Index

Publishers

  Oct-1978 – Winter 1995: Omni Publications (Bob Guccione)
  Winter 2016 – Spring 2016: 3001 Media LLC
  Winter 2017 – present: Penthouse Global Media, Inc.

Editors

  Oct-1978 – Dec-1979: Ben Bova
  Jan-1980 – Sep-1981: Robert Sheckley
  Oct-1981 – Winter 1995: Ellen Datlow
  Winter 2017 – present: Pamela Weintraub

Formats

  slick

Frequency

  monthly

Related Sites

  Science Fiction Encyclopedia
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Omni (UK) [1978]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 56

British reprint edition of Omni, identical apart for minor differences.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1978 – May-1983: Science Fiction Index (Missing: v3 #12, v4 #7, v5 #1)
Formats:   Slick
Frequency:   monthly
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Omni (UK) [1984]

see under UK Omni

Omnibook Magazine

Country: US

Contained "authorized abridgements of current best-selling books".

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1938 – 1957?: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Omnibook Inc., 76 Ninth Avenue, New York

Editors

  Maxwell M. Geffen & Victor W. Knauth

Formats

  5.4" x 7.75"

Prices

  35c

Pagecounts

  194pp (in 1948); 162pp (in 1949); 145pp (in 1950)

Frequency

  monthly

Title Changes

  Dec-1938 – Feb-1939: Omnibook; selected current books in abridged editions
  Mar-1939 – Nov-1939: Omnibook magazine; select current literature in abridged form
  Dec-1939 – May-1950: Omnibook magazine; authorized abridgements of current best-sellers
  Jun-1950 – 1957?: Omnibook Best-Seller Magazine.
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Omnifan

Country: US
Total Issues: 10

Omnifan started out as a run of the mill mimeod fanzine but became an offset semipro item. It had fiction by O.A. Kline and W. Paul Ganly. Darrell Schweitzer, Otto Binder and others did reviews and articles.

Issues & Index Sources:  1969? – 1974?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Modern Limited Publications, St. Michael, North Dakota
Editors:   David Anthony Kraft
 

Omni Online

Country: US
Total Issues: 27

Online edition of Omni Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1995 – Apr-1998
Publishers:   Omni Publications, New York

Once a Month [1861]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 17

Subtitled "original tales by the most popular authors"

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1861 – Jan-1863
Frequency:   monthly

Once a Month [1868]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 33

Subtitled "a monthly magazine of general and amusing literature".

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1868 – Dec-1869
  Jan-1871
  Mar-1872 – Aug-1873

Editors

  1872 – 1873: Joseph Collins

Frequency

  monthly

Once a Week [1859]

Country: UK

Published serials as well as complete stories, some longer than average. Authors include Charles Reade ("The Cloister and the Hearth" 1859 as "A Good Fight"), George Meredith, George Du Maurier. Revamped as five different series during this period.

Issues & Index Sources

  2-Jul-1859 – May-1879: Index to Periodical Literature (Poole: 1859 - 1874 only; FicMags: sample issues only)
FictionMags Index

Publishers

  1859 – ?: Bradbury & Evans
  ? – 1873: James Rice
  1873 – 1879: George Manville Fenn

Editors

  1859 – 1865: Samuel Lucas
  1865 – 1867: Edward Walford
  Jan-1868 – Jul-1869: E.S. Dallas
  1869 – 1873: Mark Lemon
  1873 – 1879: George Manville Fenn

Formats

  tabloid but heavily illustrated

Prices

  6d

Frequency

  weekly

Mentioned in:   British Literary Magazines Vol. 3

Online Sources

  Hathi Trust

Once a Week [1871]

Country: US

Primarily a fashion magazine that ran some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  4-Mar-1871 – 11-Nov-1871: Dime Novel Bibliography (sample issue only)

#superseded by Frank Leslie's Ladies' Journal

Publishers

  Frank Leslie, 537 Pearl Street, New York, NY

Editors

  Mrs Squier

Formats

  12 3/4 x 8 1/2"

Prices

  6c

Pagecounts

  20

Frequency

  weekly

Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Once a Week [1884]

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  1884 – 1887
Editors:   Edgar Lee
Frequency:   weekly


Once-a-Week [1888]

see also under Collier's Weekly

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