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Famous Lives

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Subtitled "a magazine of biography and autobiography".

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1929 – Jun-1929

Publishers:   Magazine Publishing
Formats:   bedsheet
Frequency:   bimonthly

Famous Novel Magazine

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1927 – ?: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers: Famous Magazine

Famous Police Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1949 – ?

Publishers: Volitant Publications, 103 Park Ave., New York, NY, and 105 E. 35th St., New York, NY
Frequency: bimonthly

Famous Science Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1966/1967 – Spring 1969: Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Health Knowledge Inc.
Editors:   Robert A.W. Lowndes
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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Famous Spy Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Entirely reprint, almost wholly Max Brand's Anthony Hamilton series.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan/Feb-1940 – May/Jun-1940:	Adventure Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Frank A. Munsey Company
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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Famous Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 4?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1937 – Sep-1937?: FictionMags Index (Missing: Jul-1937, Sep-1937)

Publishers:   Review of Reviews
Formats:   digest
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Famous Story Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 17

A reprint magazine, similar to the British titles Best-Story and Argosy (which also began in the mid-1920s). Ran from vol. I no. 1 (Oct. 1925) to vol. VI no. 2 (Feb. 1927). Three issues per volume. Some misnumbering of volume numbers.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1925 – Feb-1927:

General Fiction Index

#merges with The Golden Book Magazine

Publishers

Famous Story Magazine, Inc.

Editors

Oct-1925 – Feb-1927: George T. Delacorte, Jr.
Oct-1925 – Apr-1926: David Arnold Balch

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

25c

Frequency

monthly

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

Online Sources

Online Books (1 issue only)



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The Famous Story Magazine (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 16?

British reprint edition of The Famous Story Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1926 – May-1927?:

General Fiction Index

Publishers

Atlas Publishing and Distributing

Editors

Feb-1926 – Aug-1926: George T. Delacorte, Jr. & David Arnold Balch
Sep-1926 – May-1927: George T. Delacorte, Jr.

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

1/-

Pagecounts

144pp

Frequency

monthly



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Famous Western

Country: US
Total Issues: 117

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1937 – May-1960: Western Fiction Index (incomplete)

Publishers:   Columbia Publications
Editors:   Cliff Campbell; Robert A.W. Lowndes
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   mostly bimonthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Famous Western (UK) [1945]

Country: UK

Note that some issues of Swan's American Mags were also titled Famous Western.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1945:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   34pp

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Famous Western Magazine (UK) [1950s]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 6?

British reprint edition of Famous Western Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: #1; any after #6)

Publishers:   Hermitage Publications Ltd., Leicester, England.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   96pp



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Fan [1990s]

Country: US

Baseball fanzine which featured fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Mike Schacht
Editors: Mike Schacht

Fanatic

Country: US

Amateur magazine. The first issue contained a story by Lee Hoffman.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1950 – ?

Publishers: Bobby Pope, Charleston, South Carolina
Editors: Bobby Pope

Fanciful Tales

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Semi-professional magazine. A facsimile reprint of this magazine was issued by Marc A. Michaud in 1977.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1936:

Science Fiction Index

Related Sites: Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Mentioned in: Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Fandom Unlimited

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1970s

Publishers:   Fandom Unlimited Enterprises, 774 Vista Grande Avenue, Los Altos, CA 94022
Editors:   Randall D. Larson

Fanfare [1940s]

Country: US

Science fiction fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: 1940 – Dec-1943:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Art Widner
Editors:   Art Widner
Related Sites:   ZineWiki