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Idle Moments Series

Total Issues: 22

"The most entertaining novels of the day"

Issues & Index Sources: 15-May-1891 – 1893:

Publishers:   Price-McGill, St. Paul, Minnesota
Formats:   7 3/8 x 5 1/4"
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   300-400
Frequency:   Semi-Monthly
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The Idler [1856]

Total Issues: 6

A magazine of "fiction, belles lettres, news and comedy." Authors include William Allingham, Shirley Brooks, Mortimer Collins.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1856 – Jun-1856

Editors: Edward Wilberforce
Frequency: monthly

The Idler [1892]

Total Issues: 228

Under Jerome this magazine delighted in parodying other popular fiction, e.g with Barr's "Sherlaw Kombs" stories. Authors include Conan Doyle, W. Clark Russell, W.W. Jacobs, Coulson Kernahan, O. Henry, Mark Twain, G.K. Chesterton, Israel Zangwill, Eden Phillpotts, Edwin Lester Arnold ("Rutherford the Twiceborn," May-1892), Robert W. Chambers ("Tracer of Lost Persons" series, 1907), William Hope Hodgson ("Carnacki" stories, 1910); after it folded Robert Barr issued 6 four-page issues in chapbook format, April - Oct-1911; one of the first imitation-Strand magazines

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1892 – Mar-1911:

Indexes to Fiction #23: The Idler

Publishers

  Feb-1892 – Jan-1898: Chatto & Windus
  Feb-1898 – Jul-1898: J.M. Dent
  Aug-1898 – Jul-1900: W.R. Russell
  Aug-1900 – Feb-1901: Horace Marshall
  Mar-1901 – Sep-1902: Dawbarn & Ward
  Oct-1902 – Sep-1906: Chatto & Windus
  Oct-1906 – Mar-1911: The Idler

Editors

  Feb-1892 – Jul-1895: Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr
  Aug-1895 – Nov-1897: Jerome K. Jerome
  Dec-1897 – Sep-1898: Robert Barr
  Oct-1898 – Apr-1899: Edwin Oliver
  May-1899 – Feb-1901: Arthur Lawrence & Sidney H. Sime
  Oct-1902 – Mar-1911: Robert Barr

Formats

slightly smaller than standard

Prices

initially 6d

Frequency

monthly (no issues for Feb-1902 & Mar-1902)

Related Sites

Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Sources: British Literary Magazines Vol. 3, The Age of the Storytellers


Issue Checklist

The Idler [2000]

Subtitled "The Magazine for Those Who Live to Loaf", containing a handful of stories in each issue. Moved online in September 2014.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1993 – 2014:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Editors:   Hodgkinson, Tom
Formats:   trade paperback
Prices:   £10.00
Pagecounts:   256pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Website:   www.idler.co.uk
Email Address:   theidlers@idler.co.uk

Idylwild Series

Total Issues: 41

Issues & Index Sources: 1893

Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

If!

Total Issues: 5

Science fiction fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1948 – Jan-1949

Editors:   Conrad A. Pederson
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   24pp
Related Sites:   ZineWiki

If

Total Issues: 175+1=176

Subtitled "Worlds of Science Fiction" when it started, the "Worlds of" part came and went during the Fifties, often being placed on the cover in a manner that allowed one to misread the full title as "Worlds of If". Robert Guinn seems to have been a bit uncertain of the exact title after he bought it in 1959. The title is given in a variety of ways in the indicia, annual statements of ownership, etc.; it is worth noting, however, that Guinn never thought it was "Worlds of If".

Universal seems to have also been confused about the magazine's title for a while; they finally settled on "Worlds of If" in 1972.

The last issue was a revival as a semi-professional magazine.