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Benziger's Magazine

A Catholic magazine started for children but progressively adapted as a wider family magazine. Carried some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1898 – Mar-1900, as Our Boys' and Girls' Own

Apr-1900 – Feb-1921, as Benziger's Magazine

Frequency

monthly

Berkeley Fiction Review

Total Issues: 37 (as at Mar-2018)

A journal of contemporary short fiction and flash fiction by emerging and established writers. Has published John Blair, Wayne Harrison, Susan Steinberg. No payment. Circulation about 500.

Issues & Index Sources: 1981 – present

Publishers:   University of California, Berkeley, Student Publications.
Editors:   various
Formats:   quarto review
Pagecounts:   180pp
Frequency:   twice yearly
Website:   www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bfr/

The Bermondsey Book

Total Issues: 26?

Ran mostly working-class London fiction and non-fiction, but also published A.E. Coppard, Liam O'Flaherty.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1923 – Mar/Apr/May-1930

Publishers

Cecil Palmer to Mar-1925, then William Heinemann

Editors

1923 – 1925: anonymous but likely to have been Ethel Gutman
1925 – 1930: anonymous but likely to have been Frederick Heath

Frequency

quarterly

Sources: British Literary Magazines Vol. 4

The Bertha Clay Library

Total Issues: 512

"This line is devoted to the works of the popular Bertha M. Clay and other writers of the same school. Many of the titles listed herein are copyrighted and cannot be found in any other edition. This author has successfully demonstrated her ability to write high-class love stories which charm the reader, from the moment the book is opened until the last line is read. Her style is particularly her own. She has the happy faculty of making the reader feel that he is interested, personally in the welfare and ultimate success of the principal charactrs."

Issues & Index Sources: 16-Jun-1900 – Jan-1917:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Street & Smith, 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York
Formats:   7 x 5"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   200-300pp
Frequency:   1-117 semi-weekly; 118-141 bi-weekly; 142-237 weekly; 238-270 monthly; 271-512 bi-monthly
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Bertha M. Clay Books

Total Issues: 10

"The best works of this popular author, each one being a love story of unparalleled interest. By her magic pen we are carried through the intricate maze of thrilling and romantic scenes until the plot of hate against love, of injustice against justice, and all the trials and tribulations of the hero and heroine are neded, when we lay the story aside with regret."

Issues & Index Sources: 1910 – 1919:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York
Prices:   35c
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Best

Women's magazine which publishes some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1987 – ?

Publishers:   London
Editors:   Julie Akhurst (in 1998)
Frequency:   weekly

Best Budget

Total Issues: 12

Incorporated into Larks (comic).

Issues & Index Sources: 15-Mar-1902 – 31-May-1902

Publishers:   Trapps Holmes
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

Best Detective

Total Issues: 1

Seemingly a one-shot pulp. Not to be confused with the long-running Best Detective Magazine from the 1930s.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1947:	Crime Fiction Index	(Missing: all except Dec-1947)
	Pulp Magazine Index 1	(Missing: all except Dec-1947)

Publishers:   Exclusive Detective Stories, Inc.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   132pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


Issue Checklist

Best Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1948 – ?

Publishers: Universal Crime Stories Inc., 366 Madison Ave., New York, NY
Frequency: quarterly

Best Detective Cases (Canada)

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Publishers: Golden Books of America

Best Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 95+24+26=145

As Best Detective Magazine it was predominantly reprint, but when relaunched as Crime Busters it featured "all new stories" mainly with series characters such as "The Gadget Man" and "The Death Angel".