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Magazine Issues

Best for Boys

Country: UK
Total Issues: 27+83+50+12+12=184

Merges with Ching-Ching's Own in September 1890,

Issues & Index Sources

29-Mar-1890 – 20-Sep-1890

27-Sep-1890 – 23-Apr-1892, as Best for Boys Ching-Ching's Own

30-Apr-1892 – 17-Jun-1893, as Best for Merry Boys

24-Jun-1893 – 9-Sep-1893, as Bits for Boys:

Story Paper Index

16-Sep-1893 – 2-Dec-1893, as The Prince

(UK)

Publishers

29-Mar-1890 – 20-Sep-1890: Lucas
27-Sep-1890 – 9-Sep-1893: "Best for Boys" Publishing Company, Limited, 17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London EC

Formats

tabloid

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Best for Boys Library

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources: 1890 – 1892

Publishers: Best for Boys Co.

Best for Men

Country: US
Total Issues: 89?

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1961 – Mar-1980: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)



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Best for Merry Boys

see under Best for Boys

Best Love Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 1+3=4

AHGTTP list four futher issues in 1949/1950, but these are actually issues of a comic book (#33-#36) which succeeded Sub-Mariner in 1949.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1936:

FictionMags Index

Jan-1943 – Jul-1943:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers

Dec-1936: Western Fiction Publishing
Jan-1943 – Jul-1943: Western Fiction Publishing

Formats

standard pulp

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Best Love Stories

see under Cupid's Diary

The Best of Argosy Annual

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

A retrospective anthology in magazine format, issued to celebrate Argosy's one hundredth anniversary. Approximately one third of the contents are SF or fantasy, most of them reprinted from related magazines rather than from Argosy itself.

Issues & Index Sources: 1976:

General Fiction Index

Publishers:   Popular Publications, Inc.; New York
Editors:   Andrew Sugar
Formats:   large
Prices:   $1.95
Pagecounts:   132pp


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The Best of Back Brain Recluse

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1987:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Chris Reed; Smallfield, Surrey
Editors:   Chris Reed
Prices:   £1.50
Pagecounts:   60pp


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The Best of Flying Aces

see under Flying Aces

The Best of Ghosts & Scholars

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: 1986:

Science Fiction Index


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The Best of the Mage

see under The Mage

The Best Science Fiction

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1964 – #2, 1964: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Galaxy Publishing Co., New York
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia


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Bestseller Mystery Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 17

Conversion of the digest novel series 'Bestseller Mystery' to a magazine. Issues numbered #210-#226.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1958 – Apr-1961:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Mercury Press, NY
Editors:   Joseph W. Ferman
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Bestsellers (UK)

see under Complete Bestsellers

Bestsellers (US)

Country: US

Contains 2 or 3 book condensations in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1945 – 1947?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Mercury Press

Best Sports (Magazine)

Country: US
Total Issues: 11+10=21

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1937 – Feb-1938, as Best Sports Magazine:

Sports Fiction Index

(Missing: Feb-1938)

May-1938 – Dec-1939, as Best Sports:

Sports Fiction Index

Oct-1947 – Dec-1951, as Best Sports:

Sports Fiction Index

(Missing: Sep-1948; May 1951)

Publishers

1937 – 1948: Manvis Publications 'Red Circle'
Feb-1950 – Dec-1951: Atlas News

Editors

Robert O. Erisman

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

Quarterly

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines



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Best Stories

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1946 – ?: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   B.E.C. Publishing, 1745 Broadway, NY 19
Frequency:   monthly

Best Stories for Boys and Girls

Country: US

First issue contained "19 stories for children including Pluto and the Puppy by Walt Disney Studios from the Mickey Mouse Magazine".

Issues & Index Sources: 1938 – ?

Publishers:   The Parents Institute Inc.
Formats:   7½" x 5½"
Pagecounts:   128pp

Best Stories (of All Time)

Country: US
Total Issues: 3+26+6=35

Originally a reprint magazine modelled on Golden Book; always remained chiefly reprint, but shifted to westerns and sf/fantasy in 1928. See "A Rose by any Other Name" by Darrell C. Richardson (Pulp vault #11)

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1925 – Aug-1925, as Clever Truths:

General Fiction Index

(Missing: Aug-1925)

Sep-1925 – Jun-1927, as Best Stories of All Time:

General Fiction Index

(Missing: Jul-1926)

Jul-1927 – Nov-1927, as Best Stories:

General Fiction Index

Feb-1928 – Jul-1928, as Pioneer Tales:

Western Fiction Index

Aug-1928, as American Pioneer Tales:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers

Jun-1925 – Nov-1927: Clever Truths Publishing Co., Chicago
Feb-1928 – Aug-1928: Metropolitan Publications, Chicago

Editors

Samuel Bierman (at least for Pioneer Tales)

Formats

standard book paper; converted to full pulp in 1927; large pulp between Aug-1926 - Apr-1927

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Best Stories of Charlotte M. Braeme

Country: US
Total Issues: 41

Issues & Index Sources:  1910 – 1919: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Stein
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Best-Story Magazine

Country: UK
Total Issues: 33

Mostly reprint but some new stories. Absorbed The Smart Set and Standard Stories from Oct-1926, and by Aug-1928 had also absorbed The Jolly Mag., which itself had superseded The Sovereign Magazine and The Regent Magazine.

Mostly ran adventure/mystery stories with reprints by Eden Phillpotts, Beatrice Grimshaw, Oliver Onions, Thomas Burke, H.G. Wells, Sax Rohmer, E.F. Benson, Rafael Sabatini.

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1926 – Apr-1929:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

#merges with Hutchinson's Story Magazine

Publishers

Hutchinson

Editors

Evelyn Hornibrook

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

1/-

Pagecounts

  Aug-1926: 224pp
  Sep-1926 – Apr-1928: 192pp
  May-1928 – Apr-1929: 144pp

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: The Age of the Storytellers



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