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Challenger

Country: US
Total Issues: 39 (as at Aug-2015)

Xeroxed fanzine, containing some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1993 – present:

(sample issues only)

Website:   www.challzine.net
Publishers:   Guy H. Lillian, New Orleans, Louisiana
Editors:   Guy H. Lillian
Pagecounts:   94pp

Challenging Destiny

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 17+8=25

A quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine that's produced in Canada but showcases stories and illustrations from all over the world. Went online after #17.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1997 – Dec-2007:

Science Fiction Index

Website:   www.challengingdestiny.com
Publishers:   Crystalline Sphere Publishing, 47 Bridgeport Rd E, Waterloo N2J 2J4, Ontario, Canada
Editors:   David M. Switzer & Robert P. Switzer
Formats:   octavo s/b
Prices:   C$7.50
Pagecounts:   128+
Frequency:   irregular
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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The Chamber Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 55

The Chamber Magazine publishes short contemporary dark fiction & poetry weekly from around the world and from all genres.

Issues & Index Sources: 7-May-2021 – 7-Jul-2023:

Science Fiction Index

Website:   www.thechambermagazine.com
Publishers:   Slattery Publishing
Editors:   Phil Slattery
Frequency:   weekly; then monthly



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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Country: UK
Total Issues: 4143

The first cheap popular middlebrow magazine, with emphasis on short tales and occasional serials. Circulation reached 50,000 by third issue and 80,000 soon after. Authors include Mayne Reid, Grant Allen, Walter Besant, Conan Doyle (his first, "Mystery of Sasassa Valley" 6-Sep-1879).

Issues & Index Sources

4-Feb-1832 – 1854:	Index to Periodical Literature	(Poole missing all before 1841, FicMags missing all after 25-Jan-1834)
	FictionMags Index

7-Jan-1854 – 27-Nov-1897, as Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts:

Indexes to Fiction #17: Chamber's Journal

4-Dec-1897 – Dec-1956, as Chambers's Journal:	Indexes to Fiction #17: Chamber's Journal	(IdxChmJ to 1910 only; FicMags sample issues only)
	FictionMags Index	(IdxChmJ to 1910 only; FicMags sample issues only)

Publishers

W. & R. Chambers, Edinburgh

Editors

  1832 – 1837: William Chambers
  1837 – 1842: Thomas Smibert
  1842 – 1844: William H. Willis
  1845 – 1858: Leitch Ritchie
  1858 – 1873: James Payn
  1873 – 1888: Robert Chambers, Jr.
  1888 – 1910: Charles E.S. Chambers

Formats

initially 8-page unillustrated tabloid at 1d; became a standard-format magazine on quality book paper

Frequency

4-Feb-1832 – 28-Nov-1931: weekly
Jan-1932 – Dec-1956: monthly

Related Sites

Wikipedia

Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 2, British Literary Magazines Vol. 3, The Age of the Storytellers

Online Sources

Online Books
Online Books

Chambers's London Journal

Country: UK

An opportunist paper capitalising on the success of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. A miscellany of fiction and essays.

Issues & Index Sources: 5-Jun-1841 – 28-Oct-1843

Publishers:   William Strange
Editors:   Edward Litt Blanchard to 14-Jan-1843, then G.W.M. Reynolds
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   British Literary Magazines Vol. 3

The Chameleon

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

THE CHAMELEON is definitely a magazine, even though there was only one issue and that was limited to 100 copies. The editor was John Francis Bloxam (1873-1928), a young high churchman with a fondness for boys, who contributed the anonymous "The Priest and the Acolyte". The other fiction contribution was by John Gambril Francis Nicholson (1866-1931), a school teacher with a similar sexual orientation. Another contributor was Oscar Wilde who had "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use Of The Young" published in the magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1894:

FictionMags Index

Publishers:   Gay & Bird
Editors:   John Francis Bloxham
Pagecounts:   60pp

Chamney's Illustrated Journal

Country: Ireland

Contained fiction, poetry, biography, etc.

Issues & Index Sources: 1868

Publishers:   Chamney, Dublin
Formats:   2d
Frequency:   monthly

Champ

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1957 – Jan-1958

Publishers:   Hillman Periodicals
Mentioned in:   It's a Man's World



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Champagne

Country: US

Renamed Secret Hours in March 1970 but, just to confuse matters, unsold copies of earlier issues of Champagne were rebound with new dates and issue numbers from late 1972, overlapping Secret Hours in both dates and issues numbers.