A kind of large-format weekly news-magazine with pictures, competing with Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Weekly, occasionally ran fiction.

"Features 100% creative fiction, pictures, poetry, pop and never, ever, reviews."

True crime.

Launched in 1929, Illustrated Detective Magazine was a smooth, bright-coloured, slick-papered publication that was sold exclusively in Woolworth's and was aimed mainly at female customers. After 33 (mainly) monthly issues the title was changed to the rather more bland Mystery, as which it lasted for a further three years.

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Ran much fiction, mostly anonymous, but including stories by R.D. Joyce.

Issues & Index Sources:  1878 – 1897:

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(sample issues only)

Publishers:   T.H. Roberts, London
Prices:   1d
Frequency:   weekly

Issues & Index Sources:  17-Dec-1885 – 14-Jan-1886:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Robert Jackson, 77 Chatham St., New York, NY
Formats:   11½ x 8¼"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   16
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Issues & Index Sources:  1871 – Apr-1876:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   J. Latham & Co.
Formats:   13½ x 18½"
Prices:   $1.10 per year
Pagecounts:   8
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Reprinted Conan Doyle's A STUDY IN SCARLET in the early issues.

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Becomes (or Incorporated into?): Playmate

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1888 – Jul-1889:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(Missing: #10)

Publishers:   Nickel Library Co.
Formats:   11¾ x 8¼"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   24
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Initially founded for news and current affairs, it began to run fiction in the early 1880s, mostly serials, to rival The Graphic. Authors include Walter Besant, Hall Caine, H. Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad. Frank Leslie was one of the early engravers on ILN and took the magazine concept to the US in 1848. Circulation peaked at about 300,000 in 1860s; by 1970s was around 50,000.

An American edition was published from 1900 to 1934 at least, using a different volume numbering system and different pagination, but seems to have published the same articles that appeared in the London edition about two weeks later. For instance, a photo essay by Julian A. Dimock ("The Wild Excitement of Fising for the Saw-Fish") that appeared in the London edition on August 24, 1908, in volume 133, pp. 268-269) appeared in the New York edition on September 5, 1908, in volume. 43, pp. 372-373.

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Distributed only through the Woolworth's stores.

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Ran a serial on Captain Blood and the Crown Jewels.

A short-lived attempt in 1894 by British publisher George Newnes to derive additional revenue from the phenomenal success of The Strand Magazine.

For the price of a penny, each 20-page issue contained three (or four) short stories which had originally been published in The Strand Magazine during its first two years (1891 & 1892), along with the original illustrations. The front cover of each issue featured an interior illustration from one of the stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  1886 – 1887

Publishers:   Illustrating Pub. Co.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography