Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1958:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Vanguard Science Fiction, New York
Editors:   James Blish
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Humour magazine with cartoons and poetry. Ran serials (often spoofs) inc. work by Charles F. Browne (as Artemus Ward) and FitzHugh Ludlow.

Subtitled "A Weekly Show of Political, Social and Literary Wares", Vanity Fair was founded by Thomas Gibson Bowles, who aimed to expose the contemporary vanities of Victorian society. It offered its readership articles on fashion, current events, the theatre, books, social events and the latest scandals, together with serial fiction, word games and other trivia.

In 1914 it merged with Hearth and Home.

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A quarterly concerned with "the gayer side of life and many dashing pictorial novelties" it became a monthly after August 1896 and promised "Short Stories, Beautiful Women, Art and Artists". Merged with Saturday Standard.

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Launched in 1913 by Nast after he purchased the rights to the name (possibly from Standard possibly from Vanity Fair (UK), accounts differ) it became one of the leading society arts magazines in America under Crowninshield's famous editorship. Authors of fiction included Lord Dunsany. In its revived latter-day form, it has continued to publish some fiction, including work by Norman Mailer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, etc.

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#merges with Vogue

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A British version of the American title (which was not actually extant in 1949, but revived later).

Issues & Index Sources:  1891:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Edward Brandus & Co., 30 Broad St., New York
Formats:   7 x 4¾"
Prices:   25 to 50c
Pagecounts:   300
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

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Fanzine - the official magazine of the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society.

Split into two 16 page sections, 1-24 includes Story Varieties supplement which becomes Pictorial Varieties supplement with issue 25.

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Promising "12 stories for 10c", Variety Detective Magazine only lasted for 8 issues before changing to Lone Wolf Detective Magazine under which it ran for a further 8 issues until wartime shortages brought it to an end.

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Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1938 – May-1949:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Periodical House, Inc. (Ace Magazines)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Canadian reprint edition of Variety Love Stories.

Probably changed to 12 Adventure Stories.

Probably changed to 10 Action Adventures.