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The Marks and Spencer Magazine

Country: UK

Magazine published by the retail chain which featured some fiction in the 1930s at least.

Issues & Index Sources: ? – present:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Marks and Spencer Limited
Formats:   9" x 12"
Prices:   2d (in 1932)
Pagecounts:   84pp (in 1932)

Mark Trail

Country: UK

Boys' magazine which published a lot of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1951 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Wret Publishing Company
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   64pp

The Marlboro Review

Country: US
Total Issues: 20

Usual literary miscellany. Has published Saul Bellow, Jean Valentine. Circulation 1,000.

Issues & Index Sources: 1996 – 2007

Website:   www.webdelsol.com/Marlboro_Review/
Publishers:   collective, Marlboro, VT
Editors:   collective under Ellen Dudley
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   112pp
Frequency:   twice yearly

Marriage Confessions

See under Marriage Stories

Marriage Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 14+34+30+10=88

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1924 – Apr-1925:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

May-1925 – Feb-1928, as True Marriage Stories:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Mar-1928 – Aug-1930, as Marriage Stories

Sep-1930 – Jun-1931, as Marriage Confessions:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers

Corte Publishing Co. (Dell)

Formats

standard pulp

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



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Mars!

Country: US

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s

Publishers: M.K. Productions, Columbiana, Ohio
Editors: Michael & Kristina While

Mars Hill Review

Country: US
Total Issues: 25

Christian periodical that occasionally publishes fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1993 – Sep-2005:

FictionMags Index

(fiction in sample issues only)

Website:   www.marshillreview.com
Publishers:   The Mars Hill Forum
Editors:   Sarah Koops Vanderveen
Formats:   large little magazine format
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   Thrice yearly

Marspen Series

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1891

Publishers: Marks & Spencer

Martian

Country: US
Total Issues: 9 (to Summer 2023)

Subtitled "The Magazine of Science Fiction Drabbles".

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 2021 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after Summer 2023)

Website:   themartianmagazine.com
Publishers:   Shacklebound Books
Editors:   Eric Fomley
Frequency:   quarterly



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The Martian Wave

Country: US
Total Issues: 9+10=19 (as at Oct-2024)

Previously published 50 issues as a webzine.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-2010 – 2018:

Science Fiction Index

Mar-2020 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: Oct-2021; any after Sep-2024)

Website: www.hiraethsffh.com

Publishers

Sam's Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Nomadic Delirium Press; Hiraeth Publishing

Editors

J. Alan Erwine; Tyree Campbell

Formats

quarto

Prices

$9.00

Frequency

annual; twice yearly

Related Sites

Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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Martin Speed Detective Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  1945 – Feb-1948: Story Paper Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   irregular

The Marvel

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3+224+306+952=1485

Ran early stories of Sexton Blake and Nelson Lee but was best known in its day for the adventures of three adventurers Jack, Sam and Pete by S. Clarke Hook.

The issues are not dated themselves and are usually dated for the Saturday following the Wednesday when they appeared; this convention is followed below.

Note that the magazine was renamed The Marvel Library somewhere in the early 1900s but no details of this have yet been located. Note also that some of the (Christmas) issues of The Halfpenny Marvel were "double issues" priced at 1d and hence were actually called The Marvel.

Incorporates: Nugget Library from 12-Mar-1921; Boys' Herald from 1-Apr-1922; (Sports Stories from 15-Oct-1921 (?))

Issues & Index Sources

11-Nov-1893 – 25-Nov-1893, as The Halfpenny Marvel Library:

Story Paper Index

2-Dec-1893 – 12-Mar-1898, as The Halfpenny Marvel:

Story Paper Index

(sample issues only; numbered 4-227)

19-Mar-1898 – 23-Jan-1904, as The Marvel:

Story Paper Index

(sample issues only; numbered 228-533)

30-Jan-1904 – 22-Apr-1922, as The Marvel:

Story Paper Index

(sample issues only; numbered 1-952)

#superseded by Sport and Adventure

Publishers

Harmsworth (later Amalgamated Press)

Editors

  Somers J. Summers
  c. 1894: S. Clarke Hook
  ?: Hamilton Edwards [later editor-in-chief]
  c. 1922: John Nix Pentelow
  c. 1922: Stan Boddington [Assistant Editor]

Formats

small tabloid (octavo) story-paper

Prices

11-Nov-1893 – 12-Mar-1898: ½d (1d for double issues)
29-Mar-1898 – 22-Apr-1922: 1d (2d for double issues)

Pagecounts

20pp; 36pp

Frequency

weekly (every Wednesday)



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The Marvellous Magazine

Country: UK

Contained often unauthorized and edited versions of famous gothic stories and novelettes, e.g. Anne Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho" was cut by one-tenth and became "The Veiled Picture, or the Mysteries of Gorgono." Nevertheless the first specialized horror periodical.

Note: Not to be confused with The Marvellous Magazine published in Dublin in 26 weekly parts in 1822 which was a miscellany of history, travel and science (all non-fiction).

Issues & Index Sources: May-1802 – Apr-1804

Publishers:   Thomas Tegg
Editors:   probably also Tegg
Formats:   large folio
Frequency:   monthly (but also issued in weekly parts)

The Marvelous Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 68

Issues & Index Sources:  27-Feb-1886 – 21-May-1887: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Franklin News Co., 1110 Sansom St., Philadelphia
Formats:   12 x 8½"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   16
Frequency:   Semi-Weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Marvel Science Fiction

see under Marvel Science Stories

Marvel Science Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 5+2+2+3+3=15

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1938 – Aug-1939:

Science Fiction Index

Dec-1939 – May-1940, as Marvel Tales:

Science Fiction Index

Nov-1940 – Apr-1941, as Marvel Stories:

Science Fiction Index

Nov-1950 – May-1951, as Marvel Science Stories:

Science Fiction Index

Aug-1951 – May-1952, as Marvel Science Fiction:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers

  Aug-1938 – Nov-1938: Postal Publications; Chicago
  Feb-1939 – Apr-1941: Western Fiction Publishing Co.; Chicago
  Nov-1950 – May-1952: Stadium Publishing Corp.; New York

Editors

Feb-1939 – Apr-1941: Martin Goodman
Nov-1950 – May-1952: R.O. Erisman

Formats

  Aug-1938 – Feb-1951: standard pulp
  May-1951 – Nov-1951: digest
  May-1952: standard pulp

Prices

Aug-1938 – Apr-1941: 15c
Nov-1950 – May-1952: 25c

Pagecounts

  Aug-1938: 128pp
  Nov-1938 – Apr/May-1939: 132pp
  Aug-1939 – Apr-1941: 116pp
  Nov-1950 – May-1952: 132pp

Frequency

irregular

Related Sites

Science Fiction Encyclopedia

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



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Marvel Science Stories (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

The single issue is a complete reprint of the February 1951 (US) issue, except for UK advertisements being substituted for the originals.

Earlier US issues were distributed in the UK with a price sticker but are otherwise identical.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1951:	Science Fiction Index
	Index to British Science Fiction Magazines

Publishers: Thorpe & Porter
Formats: standard pulp


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Marvel Stories

see under Marvel Science Stories