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Rangeland Sweethearts

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1940 – Apr-1941: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Feb-1941)
Publishers:   Fictioneers, Inc.
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western

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Rangeland Westerns (Australia)

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 2?

A thin Australian digest printing original stories by Australian authors.

Issues & Index Sources:  late 1940s: Western Fiction Index (Missing: all except #2)
Publishers:   Atlas Publications Pty. Ltd., 48 Queen Street, Melbourne
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The Ranger [1931]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 130+112=242

Contains "original adventure stories (5000 words), series or serials (65,000 words) to appeal to boys age 9-14."

Incorporates: Pioneer from 4-Aug-1934

Issues & Index Sources

  14-Feb-1931 – 5-Aug-1933: Story Paper Index (incomplete)
  12-Aug-1933 – 28-Sep-1935: Story Paper Index (incomplete)

#becomes Pilot

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Hedley O'Mant
  G. Cecil Graveley [Assistant Editor]
  Clifford Gates [Assistant Editor]

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  28pp, 24pp

Frequency

  weekly
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Ranger [1965]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 40

Issues & Index Sources

  18-Sep-1965 – 18-Jun-1966

#incorporated into Look and Learn

Publishers

  Fleetway

Pagecounts

  36pp

Frequency

  weekly

Range Riders

Country: US
Total Issues: 8+67=75

The first issue was numbered v3#2, presumably continuing from some other title.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1938 – Feb-1940: Western Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 4
  Fall 1940 – Apr-1953, as Range Riders Western: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Winter 1942, Summer 1942)
Pulp Magazine Index 4

Publishers

  Better Publications (Standard Magazines)

Editors

  mid 1940s: G.B. Farnum
  Nov-1950: Edmund Collier
  Mar-1952: Morris Jones

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  Oct-1937 – Dec-1939: 15c
  Feb-1940 – Apr-1953: 10c

Pagecounts

  Oct-1937 – Dec-1939: 128pp
  Feb-1940 – ?: 112pp (pages further reduced)

Frequency

  bimonthly to Feb-1940; quarterly Fall 1940 - Summer 1945; bimonthly from Oct-1945

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Range Riders Western (Canada)

Country: Canada

Canadian reprint edition of Range Riders Western.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950: Western Fiction Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Better/Thrilling Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Pulpster #11, 2001
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Range Riders Western (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 13?

British reprint edition of Range Riders Western.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Western Fiction Index (Missing: #2-#8; #10; any after #13)
Publishers:   Pemberton's (of Manchester) Ltd.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   66pp
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Range Riders (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2?

British reprint edition of Range Riders Western.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar/Apr-1960 – ?: Western Fiction Index (Missing: all after Mar/Apr-1960)
Publishers:   Atlas Publishing
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   64pp
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Range Western

Country: Australia

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Western Fiction Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Southdown Press

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Rapid

see under The Rapid Review

Rapid-Fire Action Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1932 – Dec-1932: Adventure Fiction Index
Publishers:   Rapid-Fire Publications, Inc., 405 Hudson Street, New York (Clayton Magazines)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

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Rapid-Fire Detective Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 8

Published as a companion to Rapid-Fire Action Stories and Rapid-Fire Western Stories, Rapid-Fire Detective Stories was an undistinguished detective pulp that ran for 8 issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1932 – May-1933: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 3
Publishers:   Rapid-Fire Publications (Clayton Magazines)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Rapid-Fire Western Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1932 – May-1933: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Mar-1933)
Publishers:   Rapid-Fire Publications (Clayton Magazines)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western

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The Rapid Review

Country: UK
Total Issues: 34+4+6=44

Although the name was first changed to The Rapid in Dec-1906, the magazine was relaunched in Apr-1907 as a short-lived companion to Pearson's and The Novel, which ran some fiction but was chiefly a vehicle for comment on matters of social and human interest.

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1904 – Nov-1906
  Dec-1906 – Mar-1907, as The Rapid
  Apr-1907 – Sep-1907, as The Rapid: FictionMags Index (Missing: May-1907, Jun-1907, Jul-1907)

Publishers

  C.A. Pearson

Editors

  Percy Everett?

Prices

  4d

Pagecounts

  144pp

Rapier

Country: US

Student literary publication.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.marist.com/page/arts/visual-arts/rapier
Publishers:   Marist School, 3790 Ashford Dunwoody Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30319-1899
Editors:   Julie Lombardi (in 1993)

Rapture

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources

  1959 – 1974: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  in 1959: Tower Publications, Inc., 12969-1/2 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA
  in 1959: Beacon Publications, Inc., 12969-1/2 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA
  1961 – 1968: American Art Agency, 7311 Fulton Avenue, North Hollywood, CA.

Editors

  1959 – 1961: Paul Bessi
  1962 – 1963: Clyde Beashers
  1963 – 1966: Felix Redmond
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Rare Constellations

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1993 – #2, 1993: Science Fiction Index (Missing: #1)
Publishers:   Rare Constellations, Princeton, WV
Editors:   Dana K. Allen
Formats:   octavo
Prices:   $5.00

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