Magazine Data File

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Magazine Issues

The Penn Monthly Magazine

Country: US

"Devoted to the Literary, Scientific, and Social Interests of the Commonwealth and the Nation."

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1870 – 1892?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   American News Company, Philadelphia
Pagecounts:   40pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Penny Atlas

Country: UK
Total Issues: 128

See Waite The Quest for Bloods p.77 (n.211)

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1842 – Feb-1845?

Publishers:   Edward Lloyd
Formats:   small tabloid
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

A Penny Dreadful

Country: Australia

Subtitled "a new magazine for writers & readers".

Issues & Index Sources: Jan/Feb-1988 – ?

Publishers: Penny Dreadful, Cooran, Queensland

Penny Dreadful (US)

Country: US
Total Issues: 15

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1996 – #15, 2004: Science Fiction Index

Email Address:   mmpendragon@aol.com
Publishers:   Pendragonian Publications,PO Box 719, New York, NY 10101
Editors:   Michael Pendragon
Formats:   octavo s/b
Prices:   $5.00
Pagecounts:   140



Issue Checklist

The Penny Dreadfull

Country: UK

Gothic fanzine that published some fiction by Brian Stableford.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s

Publishers: 72 Fern Dene Road, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE8 4RX
Editors: Angela Readman

Penny Illustrated Paper

Country: UK

A cheap illustrated weekly newspaper.

Issues & Index Sources: 1861 – 1913

Prices:   1d
Frequency:   weekly
Related Sites:   Wikipedia

The Penny Magazine [1832]

Country: UK

Circulation peaked at 200,000 after a year; declined to 25,000. Mostly non-fiction but did publish several interesting stories.

Issues & Index Sources

31-Mar-1832 – 27-Dec-1845:

Index to Periodical Literature

3-Jan-1846 – 26-Dec-1846, as Knight's Penny Magazine

Publishers

1832 – 1845: Charles Knight for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
1846: Charles Knight

Editors

Charles Knight (from 1846 at least)

Frequency

weekly

The Penny Magazine [1898]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1398+26=1424

Issues & Index Sources

22-Oct-1898 – 1903, as The New Penny Magazine:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

1903 – 1925, as The Penny Magazine

Feb-1925 – Aug-1925, as Cassell's Popular Magazine

Publishers

Cassell's

Frequency

weekly

The Penny Magazine (US) [New York, 1896]

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1896 – Feb-1901?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   The Penny Company, New York
Editors:   Charles Frederick Stansbury
Prices:   2c
Frequency:   monthly
Online Sources:   Online Books

The Penny Magazine (US) [Philadelphia, 1896]

Country: US
Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1896 – Dec-1896: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   Penny Magazine Company, 653 The Bourse, Philadelphia, PA
Prices:   5c
Frequency:   monthly

The Penny Miscellany

Country: UK

Waite was unsure whether he was recalling this journal or a later one of the same title as being particularly dull.

Issues & Index Sources: 1865 – 1868

Frequency: weekly

The Penny Pictorial Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1795+71=1866

Originally aimed at a younger market and of interest to boys' story-paper collectors as it reprinted many Sexton Blake stories from the Union Jack. Apart from Sexton Blake (1907 - 1913), the paper included a great many other detectives, including Derwent Duff by Cecil Hayter, Marcus Bland by Addington Symonds, Detective X. Crook by Jefferson Farjeon and Inch of the Yard by George Goodchild.

Issues & Index Sources

10-Jun-1899 – 23-Jun-1922:

Story Paper Index

(sample issues only)

30-Jun-1922 – 6-Nov-1926, as The Pictorial Magazine:

Story Paper Index

(sample issue only)

13-Nov-1926 – 28-Oct-1933, as Pictorial Weekly:

Story Paper Index

(sample issue only)

4-Nov-1933 – 9-Mar-1935, as Penny Pictorial

Publishers

Harmsworth

Editors

1899 – 1905: Charles Sisley
Noel Wood-Smith

Prices

Frequency

weekly



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The Penny Popular

Country: UK
Total Issues: 286+628=914

Boys' story-paper. Reprinted many Sexton Blake stories from the Union Jack. Ran Charles Hamilton's school and adventure stories (under various pen names). Companion to The Penny Wonder.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1912 – Mar-1918

#incorporated into The Boys' Friend

Jan-1919 – 1920

Aug-1920 – Feb-1931, as The Popular

#becomes The Ranger

Publishers

Amalgamated Press, Fleetway House

Editors

1916 – 1918: R.T. Eves
Arthur Aldcroft [Assistant Editor]

Prices

1d; 1½d; 2d from (1922)

Pagecounts

32pp; 16pp; 20pp from Oct-1919; 28pp from #161 (1922?)

Frequency

weekly (every Friday; Tuesday from 1920s)

The Penny Story-Teller & Popular Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 248

The first 1d illustrated story paper.

Issues & Index Sources

1-Aug-1832 – 21-Sep-1836:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only; may have continued to 31-Dec-1840)

Publishers

  #1, 183? – #10, 183?: William Stevens Ltd., Family Herald Press, London WC
  #11, 183? – #24, 183?: William Howden
  #25, 183? – #130, 183?: Charles Penny
  #131, 183? – #248, 183?: S. Kay

Formats

quarto

Prices

Pagecounts

46pp

Frequency

weekly

The Penny Sunday Times and People's Police Gazette

Country: UK
Total Issues: 278

Consisted entirely of fiction and fabricated police reports in order to by-pass the stamp duty on newspapers. Succeeded because of its many Dickens imitations like "The Life and Adventures of Martin Puzzlewhit" by Bos (1843).

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1841 – 3-Jan-1847

Publishers:   Edward Lloyd
Formats:   story paper
Frequency:   weekly

The Penny Wonder

Country: UK

Boys' story-paper. Ran more sinister stories than its companion, The Penny Wonder, including detective and gothic stories. Has been called 'curiously old-fashioned'.

Issues & Index Sources: 1912 – ?

Publishers: Harmsworth
Frequency: weekly