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Magazine Issues

Franklin Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 22

Issues & Index Sources:  ?: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Homewood Publishing Company, Chicago
Formats:   7 x 4¾"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   250-300pp
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Frank Manley's Weekly

Country: US
Total Issues: 32

School and sports stories about Frank Manley and his friends in imitation of the Frank Merriwell stories published by Street & Smith.

Issues & Index Sources: 8-Sep-1905 – 13-Apr-1906:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Frank Tousey, 24 Union Square, New York
Formats:   8" x 11"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Frank Reade Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 191

A dime novel series devoted entirely to SF. Issued in the small tabloid "nickel library" format of the late 1800's, with black and white covers.

Issues & Index Sources: 24-Sep-1892 – 5-Aug-1898:

Science Fiction Index

(sf content only)

Publishers:   Frank Tousey, NY
Formats:   small tabloid
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   16pp (some 24pp & some 32pp)
Frequency:   weekly; twice monthly from #152
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography
Online Sources:   Online Books



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Frank Reade Weekly Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 96

Usually just one 'dime novel' reprint per issue.

Issues & Index Sources: 31-Oct-1902 – 26-Aug-1904:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Frank Tousey, NY
Formats:   quarto tabloid
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography
Online Sources:   Online Books



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Frank Starr's American Novels

Country: US
Total Issues: 221

Issues & Index Sources:  1869 – 8-May-1877: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Frank Starr & Co., 41 Platt St., New York
Pagecounts:   36-100pp
Frequency:   monthly (after no. 18)
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Frank Starr's Fifteen Cent Illustrated Novels

Country: US
Total Issues: 22

Issues & Index Sources:  1869 – 1871

Publishers:   Beadle
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Frank Starr's New York Dime Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 26

"Some time during August, 1878, with No. 8, the name Frank Starr was dropped from the title and it became simply The New York Library, although the publishers' name was unchanged. On No. 27, Beadle and Adams were given as publishers, and the title was altered to Beadle's New York Dime Library. With this change the firm name, Frank Starr & Co., dropped out of existence."

Issues & Index Sources: 10-May-1877 – 7-Feb-1878:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Frank Starr & Co., Platt and William Sts., New York
Formats:   12 7/8" x 9"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   32pp
Frequency:   every two weeks (Nos. 1-3), 5th and 20th of every month (No. 2-4), 10th and 20th of every month (Nos. 5-7), weekly (No. 8-19), every two weeks (Nos. 20-26)
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Frank Starr's Ten Cent Pocket Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  1877

Publishers:   Beadle
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Frank Tousey's Boys Weekly

Country: US
Total Issues: 74

Authors include Harry Enton, Thomas Hanshew.

Issues & Index Sources

9-Dec-1881 – 4-May-1883:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(sample issue only)

#merges with Young Men of America

Publishers

Frank Tousey, NY

Formats

tabloid story-paper

Pagecounts

16pp

Frequency

weekly

Mentioned in: Dime Novel Bibliography

Franson's

Country: US

Self published semi-pro magazine publishing novelettes by Robert Wilfred Franson.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1970s

Publishers: Franson Publications of San Diego, California
Editors: Robert Wilfred Franson

Fraser's Magazine

Country: UK

Started as the London rival to Blackwood's; a miscellany which ran much fiction especially William M. Thackeray, James Hogg, T. Crofton Croker, Charles Kingsley.

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1830 – Oct-1882:

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 2

#superseded by Longman's Magazine

Publishers

1847 – 1863: J.W. Parker
1865 – 1882: Longman

Editors

  1830 – 1836: William Maginn
  1836 – 1840?: Francis Mahony
  1841 – 1847: G.W. Nickisson
  1847 – 1860: John W. Parker
  1860 – 1874: J.A. Froude
  1874 – 1879: William Allingham
  1879 – 1881: John Tulloch

Formats

standard, unillustrated

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 2

Online Sources

Online Books

Fred Leslie's Journal

Country: UK
Total Issues: 20

Includes a comic supplement from issue 14.

Issues & Index Sources: 12-Apr-1902 – 30-Aug-1902

Publishers:   Charles Strong, 161 Strand, London W.C.
Formats:   tabloid
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly (every Tuesday)

Freedom Fiction Journal

Country: India
Total Issues: 7

Online amateur downloadable magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-2008 – May-2010

Editors: Ujjwal Dey, Mumbai, India

Free for All

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950

Publishers:   The Park Trading Company, 14 Portland Road, London W11
Formats:   7" x 9.5"
Pagecounts:   36pp

The Freeman

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  17-Mar-1920 – 1924: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   The Freeman, Inc., 32 W. 58th Street, New York
Editors:   Albert Jay Nock
Frequency:   weekly
Related Sites:   Wikipedia
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

The Free Press

Country: US

Monthly New York City newspaper that occasionally publishes fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: in 2000s

Email Address:   MariaRaf@aol.com
Publishers:   P.O. Box 581, Bronx, NY 10463 (in 2000)
Editors:   J. Rudolph Abate (in 2000)
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (not 2001 or 2002")