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American Review [1845]

Published Poe's "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (Dec-1845).

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1845 – Dec-1852

Editors

  1845 – 1847: George H. Colton
  1848 – 1849: James D. Whelpley
  1850 – 1852: George W. Peck

Frequency

monthly

American Review [1967]

The American Scholar

The journal of the Phi Beta Kappa society. Purely non-fiction for over 70 years but started publishing some fiction from the Summer 2006 issue.

Issues & Index Sources: 1932 – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Website:   www.theamericanscholar.org
Editors:   Robert Wilson (in 2006)
Prices:   $7.95 (in 2006)
Pagecounts:   144pp (in 2006)
Frequency:   quarterly (in 2006)

American Science Fiction (Magazine)

Total Issues: 41

A series of Australian booklets, neither numbered nor dated.

Issues & Index Sources

#1, 1952, as Famous American Science Fiction:

Science Fiction Index

#2, 1952 – #3, 1952, as Science Fiction:

Science Fiction Index

#4, 1952 – #41, 1955, as American Science Fiction (Magazine):

Science Fiction Index

Prices

#1, 1952 – #3, 1952: A8d
#4, 1952 – #41, 1955: A9d

Pagecounts

32pp

Related Sites

Science Fiction Encyclopedia



Issue Checklist

American Series

Total Issues: 423

Issues & Index Sources: 9-Nov-1887 – Jul-1896:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(incomplete)

Publishers:   M. J. Ivers & Co., 379 Pearl St., New York
Formats:   7 1/8 x 4 7/8" (1st printing); 7 1/8 x 4 3/4" (2nd printing)
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   200 to 300
Frequency:   weekly and then monthly
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

American Short Fiction

Total Issues: 32

Publishes new stories by a wide range of authors including Reynolds Price, Ursula K. Le Guin, Andrea Barrett, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Judith Rossner. Circulation about 2000.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1991 – Winter 1998

Publishers:   University of Texas Press
Editors:   Joseph E. Kruppa
Formats:   large digest (9.25"x5.5")
Prices:   $6.00
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly

American Short Story

Total Issues: 6

Called 'a magazine of contemporary fiction'.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1929 – Apr-1930:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: Mar-1930, Apr-1930)

Publishers:   Quality Publications, New York
Formats:   standard
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly

American Sky Devils

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources

Jul-1942 – Jul-1943:	Adventure Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

Manvis Publications

Editors

Robert O. Erisman

Formats

standard pulp

Pagecounts

116pp (last two 100pp)

Frequency

Jul-1942 – Jan-1943: bimonthly
Apr-1943 – Jul-1943: quarterly

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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American Sleuth

Total Issues: 16 (at least)

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1952 – 1953?:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: #3, #6, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15)

Publishers:   Invincible Press, 321 Pitt Street, Sydney
Formats:   digest
Prices:   8d
Pagecounts:   32pp


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American Standard Library

Total Issues: 10

"Comprises the best current standard literature. Tales from many lands. Fact, fiction and fancy."

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1888 – Oct-1888:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   American Standard Library Co., 125 Fifth Ave., Chicago
Formats:   7½ x 5"
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   250-300
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

American Sunday Magazine [1882]

Produced as a weekly supplement for Sunday newspapers.

Issues & Index Sources: 1882 – ?

Publishers: American Sunday Magazine, 220 Fifth Avenue, NY
Frequency: weekly

The American Sunday Monthly Magazine

One of the four Sunday Magazine Supplements published during the period 1905 to 1920 (roughly), The American Sunday Monthly Magazine was initially produced as a monthly supplement for Sunday newspapers on the first Sunday of the month. For at least a short period, between Nov-1912 and Jan-1913, it was produced twice, rather than just once, a month, and was then called The American Sunday Twice a Month Magazine (or Magazine Section).

The magazine appeared in at least five newspapers: The Boston American, The Chicago Examiner, The Los Angeles Examiner, The New York American, and The San Francisco Examiner.

Although the covers of the magazines were typically simply called The Sunday Magazine of the xxxx for each newspaper concerned, this syndicate is easy to recognize because The American Sunday Monthly Magazine is part of the masthead.

Issues & Index Sources: 1911 – ?

Publishers: American-Journal-Examiner Co., 220 Fifth Avenue, New York (in 1912); subsequently The Star Co.
Frequency: monthly; twice-monthly for part of 1912

American Tales [1863]

Total Issues: 44

Issues & Index Sources: 1863 – 1867

Publishers: Sinclair Tousey
Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

American Tales [1868]

Total Issues: 49

Issues & Index Sources: 1868 – 1872

Publishers: Beadle
Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

The American Thresherman

"The Power Farmer's Magazine". Mainly articles about farming, but also the occasional fiction including a reprint serial by William MacHarg & Edwin Balmer in the 1940s.

Full title is American Thresherman and Farm Equipment" in late 1931.

Issues & Index Sources: 1898 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Little, Brown
Frequency: monthly

The American Union

A rather more literary story-paper. Authors included Sylvanus Cobb, J.H. Robinson, Murray.

Issues & Index Sources

4-Nov-1848 – 1877?

Publishers

  1848 – 1854: Robert B. Fitts, Boston, Mass.
  1854 – 1860: William E. Graves & Samuel E. Weston, Boston, Mass.
  1861 – 1876: Thomes & Talbot, Boston, Mass.
  1861 – 1863: James R. Elliott & William Henry Thomes
  1863 – 1870: James R. Elliott, William Henry Thomes & Newton Talbot, Boston, Mass.
  1870 – 1877?: William Henry Thomes & Newton Talbot, Boston, Mass.

Editors

  1848 – 1852: George Pickering Burnham
  1852 – 1855: William E. Graves
  1855 – 1861: Samuel E. Weston
  1861 – 1870: James R. Elliott
  1861: William Henry Thomes
  1863 – ?: Newton Talbot

Formats

tabloid

Frequency

weekly

The American Voice

Total Issues: 50

Published daring new writers and the more radical work of established writers, such as Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Chaim Potok, and Jorge Luis Borges. Circulation about 1500.

Issues & Index Sources: 1985 – 1999

Publishers:   Kentucky Foundation for Women, 332 West Broadway, Suite 1215, Louisville, KY 40202 (in 2000)
Editors:   Frederick Smock (in 1998 - 1999)
Prices:   $5.00
Pagecounts:   130pp
Frequency:   thrice yearly; then quarterly
Sources:   Directory of Literary Magazines 1999, O. Henry Awards Website (not in 2002)