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Plink

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Publishers: Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
Prices: 2/6d

Plot

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1994 – #9, 1997:

Miller/Contento

Publishers: Calypso Publishing, Sugar Land, TX.

Ploughshares

Total Issues: 84 (to May-2001)

Known for its compelling fiction and poetry. Each issue is guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Authors include Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Tony Hoagland, Marilyn Hacker, Andre Dubus. Circulation 6,000.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1971 – present:

Short Story Index

(Missing: all before 1974 at least)

Publishers:   Emerson College, 100 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.pshares.org
Editors:   founding editor DeWitt Henry; originally edited by a committee but now has guest editors
Formats:   pocketbook
Frequency:   thrice-yearly (Apr,Aug,Dec)
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Pluck [1894]

Total Issues: 519+594+103=1216

Started with only true stories but soon switched to fiction; ran Nelson Lee stories plus Charles Hamilton's St Jim. 1st 46 issues of original series entitled Stories of Pluck. The second series took over from Sport and Adventure.

Third series included an 8pp supplement from issue 1 entitled Star Library.

Issues & Index Sources

24-Nov-1894 – 5-Nov-1904:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

12-Nov-1904 – 18-Mar-1916

#incorporated into The Boys' Realm (Gifford)

28-Oct-1922 – 11-Oct-1924

#becomes The Triumph

Publishers

Harmsworth; Amalgamated Press

Editors

  William H. Maas
  J.H. Pym
  c. 1890: Percy C. Bishop
  Somers J. Summers
  Hamilton Edwards [Editor in Chief]
  Harold J. Garrish
  c. 1912: Rex Haydon
  1915: Horace Phillips
  c. 1907: Charles Manders [Assistant Editor]
  F. Addington Symonds
  John W. Wheway [Assistant Editor]
  c. 1924: Alfred Edgar [Assistant Editor]

Formats

small tabloid (octavo)

Pagecounts

20pp; 28pp

Frequency

weekly

Pluck [1956]

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources: 1956

Publishers:   L. Miller
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   monthly

Pluck and Luck

Total Issues: 1605

The longest-running dime novel series, primarily printing stories of adventure in many different settings.

Issues & Index Sources: 12-Jan-1898 – 6-Mar-1929

Publishers: Frank Tousey
Frequency: semi-monthly



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Plume & Sword

Student literary magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1960 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   University of Virginia
Editors:   Thomas T. Taylor
Formats:   digest
Prices:   30c
Pagecounts:   28pp
Frequency:   monthly (except Jun-Sep)

Pocket Book Weekly

Story paper that published some "Saint" stories by Leslie Charteris.

Possibly started as Pocket Book (Wireless Weekly) in 1943, and renamed at some point to Pocket Book Storyteller Weekly under which name it was still running in 1946.

Issues & Index Sources: 1943? – 1956?

Publishers:   Associated Newspapers Ltd., Sydney
Formats:   6¾" x 7¾"
Pagecounts:   80pp
Frequency:   weekly

Pocket Budget Library

Total Issues: 17?

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1903 – Apr-1904:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: all after #8)

Publishers: James Henderson

Pocket Budget Stories of Short and Serial Stories

Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources

2-May-1903 – 11-Jul-1903

#becomes Pocket Budget Library

Publishers

James Henderson

Frequency

weekly

Pocket Detective Magazine [1936]

Total Issues: 11

An early experiment with a "pocket-sized" magazine to persuade readers to part with their cash in the hard days after the depression, Pocket Detective featured many of the same authors as the other Street & Smith detective pulps. Bad sales did not result in the anticipated success and it folded after 11 issues.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1936 – Oct-1937:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Editors:   Robert Arthur
Formats:   Pocketbook
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Pocket Detective Magazine [1950]

Total Issues: 2

Designed to fit in a man's hip-pocket, Pocket Detective featured fast-action, crime-adventure stories, each preceded by a pulplike illustration and printed on cheap paper. It folded after only two issues.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1950 – Nov-1950:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Trojan Magazines
Editors:   Adolphe Barreaux
Formats:   Pocketbook
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE