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Yankee Romance Shorts

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Yankee Science Fiction

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Yankee Shorts

Country: UK
Total Issues: 21+5?=26?

The first series was published from 1940 to 1942, numbered sequentially, but with each individual issue carrying the name of an individual magazine, as follows:
  #1 Yankee Romance Shorts, Nov-1940
  #2 Yankee Mystery Shorts, Nov-1940
  #3 Yankee Science Fiction, Nov-1940
  #4 Yankee Romance Shorts, Nov-1940
  #5 Yankee Mystery Shorts, Jan-1941
  #6 Yankee Weird Shorts, Jan-1941
  #7 Yankee Western Shorts, Jan-1941
  #8 Yankee Gang Shorts, Jan-1941
  #9 Yankee Love Shorts, Jan-1941
 10 Yankee Air Action, Apr-1941
 11 Yankee Science Fiction, Apr-1941
 12 Yankee Romance Shorts, Apr-1941
 13 Yankee Gang Shorts, Apr-1941
 14 Yankee Weird Shorts, Jul-1941
 15 Yankee Romance Shorts, Jul-1941
 16 Yankee Air Action, Jul-1941
 17 Yankee Western Shorts, Jul-1941
 18 Yankee Romance Shorts, Apr-1942
 19 Yankee Weird Shorts, May-1942
 20 Yankee Gang Shorts, Jun-1942
 21 Yankee Science Fiction, Jul-1942

The series mixed reprints with original stories probably depending on how much space there was left in each issue.

The second series, published in 1943/1944, were digest-sized and were explicitly labelled Yankee Shorts as well as a separate title such as Romance Shorts and Western Shorts and a number. In this series, however, the issues were numbered as sequels to the equivalent title in the first series. whether these numbers represented a second generic series, or if each was numbered as a sequel to the first series.

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1940 – #21, 1942: Crime Fiction Index
Science Fiction Index
  1943?: Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

  Gerald G. Swan, London

Editors

  Gerald G. Swan

Formats

  1940 – 1942: small pulp
  1943: digest

Prices

  1940 – 1942: 3d
  1943: 6d

Pagecounts

  1940 – 1942: 32pp
  1943: 66pp

Frequency

  sporadic, mostly monthly but with some magazines released in batches

Related Sites

  Science Fiction Encyclopedia
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Yankee Weird Shorts

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Yankee Western Shorts

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Yarns

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 6?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1941 – Nov-1941?: FictionMags Index (Missing: Sep-1941, any after Nov-1941)
Publishers:   Yarns Publishing Co., Montreal


Yawning Vortex

Country: US
Total Issues: 10

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1994 – Jul/Aug-1997
Publishers:   Tsathoggua Press
Editors:   Perry Grayson
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Yearnings

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

A "shared universe" fanmagazine for ElfQuest fans, authorized by the Pinis - the first issue was subtitled "The Elfquest Companion". While the cartoonish cover (elves and nerdish human kids roast marshmellows over fire together) makes it look like a comic/graphic art book, it's actually (almost) all text and mostly fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  v1 #1, 1982 – ?: Science Fiction Index (Missing: #4)
Publishers:   WaRP Graphics, 2 Reno Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
Editors:   Jane Fancher & Richard Pini
Formats:   8.5" x 11"
Prices:   $3.95
Pagecounts:   96pp
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The Year's Best Fantastic Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  v1 #1, 1995 – v2 #1, 1998: Science Fiction Index

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The Year's Sexiest Best

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Pin-up magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1965 (possibly non-fiction)
Publishers:   Bruce Royal Publishing
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The Yellow Advertiser

Country: UK

Local newspaper serving the Essex area.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.yellowad.co.uk

Yellow Bat Review

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

A pocket sized journal of eclectic writing. "We primarily publish poetry, but also publish some very short prose. Yellow Bat Review aims to provide a forum for both mainstream and genre writings in all their various forms and styles."

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 2001 – Feb-2004: Science Fiction Index (Missing: #2, Winter 2002)
Publishers:   Yellow Bat Review, 220 Sullivan Way, B15, Trenton, NJ 08628
Editors:   Craig Sernotti
Prices:   $2.50
Pagecounts:   28pp
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The Yellow Book [1894]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 13

The most memorable and decadent literary and artistic quarterly of the 1890s. Remembered for its artwork by Aubrey Beardsley. Authors include Baron Corvo, George Gissing, H.G. Wells, John Buchan, E. Nesbit, Richard Le Gallienne, Henry James, Ella D'Arcy.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1894 – Apr-1897: FictionMags Index

Publishers

  Apr-1894 – Jul-1894: Elkin Mathews and John Lane
  Oct-1894 – Apr-1897: John Lane

Editors

  Henry Harland (Aubrey Beardsley served as art editor for the first four vols)

Formats

  hardcover book format (heavily illustrated)

Prices

  5/-

Pagecounts

  300pp

Frequency

  quarterly

Related Sites

  Wikipedia

Mentioned in:   British Literary Magazines Vol. 3, The Age of the Storytellers

Online Sources

  Online Books

Yellow Book [1910]

Country: US
Total Issues: 100?

Reprint magazine binding unsold copies of Breezy Stories and Young's Magazine. Still around in 1947.

Issues & Index Sources:  1910? – 1947: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   C.H. Young Publishing Co. Inc.
Editors:   Cashel St. J. Pomeroy
Formats:   huge pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   458pp
Frequency:   quarterly (#60 in 1929)
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Yellow Book [1897]

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The Yellow Dog

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

A monthly short-story magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1901
Publishers:   Chicago
Frequency:   monthly

The Yellow Kid

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The Yellow Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 130

Like The Red Magazine, it published a mixture of adventure, humorous, and supernatural stories; heavy on sf and fantasy in its early issues it shifted to more romantic stories towards the end. Authors include James Barr, Coutts Brisbane, A.M. Burrage, Owen Oliver, Douglas Newton, Fred M. White, Edmund Snell.

In 1926 its publication slot was taken over by All-Story Magazine, a completely different product.

Issues & Index Sources:  23-Sep-1921 – 17-Sep-1926: FictionMags Index (Missing: 11-Dec-1925; 5-Feb-1926)
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Editors:   John Stock
Formats:   small pulp size (8.5" x 7")
Prices:   7d at first; later 6d
Frequency:   fortnightly
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Mentioned in:   The Age of the Storytellers
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Yellow Medicine Review

Country: US

Subtitled "A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought", the magazine "encourages submissions from indigenous perspectives in the area of fiction, poetry, scholarly essays, and art. We define indigenous universally as representative of all pre-colonial peoples."

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 2007 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.yellowmedicinereview.com
Publishers:   Department of English, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, MN 56258
Prices:   $12.50

The Yellow Sign

Country: UK
Total Issues: 8

"An occasional magazine devoted to the 'King in Yellow' Mythos of Robert W. Chambers".

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-2006 – Nov-2017: Science Fiction Index
Website:   www.rainfallsite.com/Chapbooks01.html
Publishers:   Rainfall Books
Editors:   John B. Ford & Steve Lines
Formats:   A5
Prices:   £7.00; £4.00
Pagecounts:   40pp
   
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Yellow Silk: Journal of Erotic Arts

Country: US
Total Issues: 48

Erotic journal of fiction and poetry. Authors and artists who have appeared in Yellow Silk: Sigmund Abeles, Kim Addonizio, Angela Ball, Robert Bly, Angela Carter, Marilyn Chin, Wanda Coleman, Judy Dater, Margaret Drabble, Lee Durkee, Louise Erdrich, Susan Griffin, Marilyn Hacker, Jane Hirshfield, Ha Jin, Galway Kinnell, William Kotzwinkle, Dorianne Laux, Mary Mackey, Carole Maso, W.S. Merwin, Bharati Mukherjee, D. Nurkse, Mayumi Oda, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Octavio Paz, Marge Piercy, Andrew Schelling, Ntozake Shange, Robert Silverberg, Terry Tempest Williams, Robert Wrigley, and many more....

Issues & Index Sources:  1981 – 1996
Website:   www.well.com/user/green/Yellow%20Silk/ysysysysys.html

Yellow Star Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 144

Issues & Index Sources:  1956 – 1961
Publishers:   C. Arthur Pearson (Newnes)
Pagecounts:   68pp



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