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Modern Detective (1934)

Country: US

A sample, ashcan, issue was filed with the Library of Congress to register the title, but was never turned into an actual newsstand pulp.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1934: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   The Lans Publishing Co., Publishers, Mount Morris, IL
Editors:   Thomas H. Dyson
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Modern Detective (1898)

Country: US

True crime magazine that occasionally published some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1890s

Modern Detective Magazine

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 11 (at least)

Australian digest mainly printing original stories by Australian authors, although two of the issues reprinted from stories US pulp magazines.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1954: Crime Fiction Index (Missing: any issues after #11)
Publishers:   Action Comics, 14 Bond Street, Sydney
Prices:   1/-
Mentioned in:   Australian Crime Fiction
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Modern Electrics

Country: US

A popular science magazine edited by Hugo Gernsback which regularly published fiction from 1911 to 1913. In March 1913 Gernsback sold it to his partner Orland Ridenour who combined it with Electrician and Mechanic to form Modern Electrics and Mechanics which only lasted for six months until being absorbed by Popular Electricity and World's Advance.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1908 – Dec-1913: Science Fiction Index (only fiction indexed)
  Jan-1914 – Jun-1914, as Modern Electrics and Mechanics: Science Fiction Index (only fiction indexed)

Publishers

  Modern Publishing Company, 231 Fulton Street, New York

Editors

  Hugo Gernsback (to Feb-1913)

Formats

  bedsheet

Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Modern Fairy Tales

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1938 – in 1940s
Publishers:   Popular Fiction; Phoenix; Anglo-American
Formats:   pocket
Pagecounts:   20pp


Modern Girl

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1938 – ?
Publishers:   Coudry
Pagecounts:   24pp
Frequency:   monthly


Modern Girl Book

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

Note that title given as "Modern Girl Book Magazine" on cover and "Modern Girl Book" on contents page.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1939 – May-1939?: FictionMags Index
Publishers:   Lex Publications, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York
Formats:   11.5" x 8.5"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   60pp
Frequency:   bimonthly
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Modern Girl Stories

see under Live Girl Stories

Modern Homemaking

see under The American Woman

Modern Life Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1?

Contained stories plus many photo studies of stars and starlets.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1948
Publishers:   The Park Trading Company, 14 Portland Road, London W11
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Modern Love Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 6?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1937 – Jun-1941?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing Co.
Editors:   Carrie Vaughn
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

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Modern Love Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1950
Publishers:   Atlas News
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

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Modern Man

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1951 – Dec-1976: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Publishers Development Corp., 8150 North Central Park Avenue, Skokie, Illinois
Prices:   50c

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Modern Maturity

Country: US

A very large-circulation glossy for old folks; publishes occasional fiction, e.g. "The Book Collector" by Leon Arden (Dec-1993/Jan-1994).

Issues & Index Sources

  1958 – 2002: Short Story Index
  2002 – present, as AARP: The Magazine

Website:   www.aarp.org/magazine

Publishers

  American Association of Retired Persons

Frequency

  bimonthly

Related Sites

  Wikipedia

Modern Mechanics and Inventions

Country: US

A pulp-size science magazine. During the period from November 1928 to July 1929 it serialized reprints of three Edgar Rice Burroughs novels: The Moon Maid as "Conquest of the Moon" (Nov 28 to Feb 1929), At the Earth's Core as "Lost Inside the Earth" (Feb to Apr 1929), and Under the Moons of Mars as "Carter of the Red Planet" (Apr to Jul 1929). It published no original fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1928 – Jul-1929: Science Fiction Index (only fiction indexed)
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Modern Miss

Country: UK
Total Issues: 9

Subtitled "The Magazine for the Younger Set".

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1948 – May-1949: FictionMags Index
Publishers:   Eric H. Hale
Editors:   Rita Boyce (1948); Rita Boyce & Joan Seager (1949)
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   24pp

Modern Mythology

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 199? – #2, 1993


The Modern Priscilla

Country: US

Subtitled "A Fancy Work Magazine", aimed at women, particularly needlework fans, seems to have been running one, sometimes two stories per issue. Absorbed Everyday Housekeeping in Mar-1912, and Home Needlework Magazine in May-1917

Issues & Index Sources:  1887 – Jul-1930: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The Priscilla Publishing Co., Boston, Mass.
Prices:   10c (in 1911); 20c (in 1927)
Frequency:   monthly
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