Subtitled "A Survey of Sex Communications Past, Present, and Future"; occasionally published fiction.

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Featuring long stories of the titular detective hero, it ran in parallel with the weekly Union Jack, and in fact long outlived that publication, lasting into the 1960s; "complete detective stories, of about 35,000 words... The same central characters - Sexton Blake, Paula Dane and Tinker - are invariably involved".

Unofficially, the 'New Look' given to the Sexton Blake Library in Jun-1956 marks the beginning of a '4th Series', widely recognised by collectors and subsequently adopted by the editor W. Howard Baker, who continued to edit the Blake '5th Series' in paperback format from Mayflower-Dell (1965 - 1968) and later in hardback. The SBL was also translated into foreign languages from the 1930s on; one edition was published in Buenos Aires as "El Neuevo Magazine Sexton Blake" in the 1940s and 1950s; other editions appeared in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Portugal and Spain, and also translated in Hindustani.

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"The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy for Adults".

Fanzine including fiction by Terry Carr.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1976:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   New English Library
Editors:   Julie Davis
Formats:   slick
Prices:   50p
Pagecounts:   44pp
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Fanzine containing fiction, poetry and articles.

Compiled from contributions from attendees of the first two EnVision workshops in July 2003 and July 2004. Most of the fiction consists of excerpts from novels in progress

Semi-professional magazine.

Fanzine that published early work by many of the top British SF authors of the 1980s such as Ian Watson, Colin Greenland, Robert Holdstock, Dave Langford & Mike Scott Rohan.

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The magazine published contemporary poetry and stories, as well as essays discussing the direction of Modernism in art and music.

A rebinding of unsold issues of New Worlds and Science Fantasy.

The Shadow Magazine was the first, and arguably the best, of the "character hero" pulp magazines. Launched in 1931 it soon established a monthly schedule and then, in 1932, doubled that to a twice-monthly schedule, which it maintained for over 10 years, before dropping back to a monthly schedule in 1943. This marked the beginning of the end with the schedule dropping to bimonthly in 1947 and then to quarterly in 1948, before the magazine finally expired in Summer 1949.

In all, 325 issues appeared, each containing a lead novel featuring Lamont Cranston, "The Shadow", as well as a small number of short stories and other features. Most of the novels were written by Walter B. Gibson (under the byline Maxwell Grant) although a small number were written by Lester Dent, Bruce Elliott and Theodore Tinsley (all under the Grant byline).

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Canadian reprint edition of The Shadow. From May-1932 to Apr-1936 it seems to have reprinted the US issues from 5-6 months previously, and then, for a few months at least, reprinted the US issues of the same date.

Following the War Exchange Conservation Act of 1940 which banned the direct import of US pulps, a new series started with (very poorly) (re)drawn cover art. This ran on a monthly basis from the middle of 1941 to early 1945 (at least) reprinting consecutive US issues starting from early 1941 (and thus continually falling further behind as the US magazine was publishing twice monthly during this period).

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Subtitled "Fantasy Literature Review", Shadow featured in depth articles on all aspects of horror and fantasy fiction, author profiles, book reviews, fiction and artwork.

Blake's 7 fanzine.