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Popular Detective (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Popular Detective.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Crime Fiction Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   The American News Company Limited, Toronto (or Better Publications, Toronto)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Sources:   The Pulpster #11, 2001



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Popular Detective (UK)

Total Issues: 14?

British reprint edition of Popular Detective.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1950 – c. 1953/1954:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: #6, #8, any after #14)

Publishers:   Pembertons of Manchester, 14 Lever Street, Manchester 1
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Popular Detective Stories

Total Issues: 1

One-shot magazine/anthology reprinting stories from various US sources.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1950:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Popular Publications, 505 His Majesty's Building, Commissioner and Joubert Streets, Johannesburg
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   1/6d
Pagecounts:   72pp

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Popular Edition of Dickens

Total Issues: 18

Issues & Index Sources: 1869

Publishers: D. Appleton & Co.
Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Popular Electricity

Total Issues: 72?

A magazine that covered all electrical innovations of the early 20th century, including telephones, radio, lighting and heating and occasionally published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1908 – Apr-1914?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

#merges with Popular Science (Monthly)

Publishers

Popular Electricity Publishing Co., Chicago Ill.

Editors

Henry Walter Young

Related Sites

MagazineArt

Popular Engineering Stories

Total Issues: 1

Cover in pulp Culture.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1930:

Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers:   Magazine and Book Corporation, Springfield, MA
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   announced as monthly; began from #2
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Popular Fiction

see under Man Stories

Popular Flying

An aviation magazine, primarily non-fiction, but famous for initiating Captain W.E. Johns's "Biggles" stories (as by William Earle, from the first issue). Later stories in the series appeared in The Boy's Own Paper and elsewhere.

Incorporated into a new magazine called Aeronautics which ran until 1962 and probably did not contain any fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1932 – Jul-1939

Publishers

  1932 – 1933: John Hamilton
  1933 – 1935: Popular Flying Ltd.
  1935 – 1939: C. Arthur Pearson

Editors

Apr-1932 – Jul-1939: W.E. Johns
Aug-1939 – Sep-1939: Oliver Stewart

Frequency

monthly

Popular Football

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1941 – Fall 1951:

Sports Fiction Index

Publishers:   Standard Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   quarterly, irregular during 1946
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines



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Popular Love

Total Issues: 102

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1936 – Winter 1955:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with Exciting Love

Publishers

Beacon Magazines, NY (Thrilling, in 1936)
Better Publications, NY (Thrilling, from 1941 to 1949 at least)

Editors

Martha Trask (in 1936)

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c (in 1936); 15c (from 1941 to 1949 at least)

Sources: Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Popular Love (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Popular Love.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1949:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Formats: standard pulp
Sources: The Pulpster #11, 2001


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The Popular Magazine

Total Issues: 612

First three issues purported to be a boys' magazine but rapidly converted to a men's fiction pulp from Feb-1904. Success came with Haggard's "Ayesha" (1905); also published C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Morgan Robertson, H.G. Wells, Rafael Sabatini, Zane Grey; it carved a niche as a middle-of-the-road family magazine. See also possible brief revival under Hardboiled.

Initially The Popular Magazine dated its issues, in common with most other magazines, by the date it should be taken "off" sale - thus an issue might be dated "First July Number" and go on sale on June 7th. In late 1914, however, the policy changed to date the issue by the date it was offered for sale, thus producing 26 issues dated 1914, although only 24 were actually published therein.

Just to make life even more confusing, in late 1928 the policy was switch back - initially with both "First November Number" and "Oct. 7" appearing on the cover, with the latter gradually changing to "On Sale xxx" before being phased out completely - which is why there appear to be no October issues in 1928.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1903, as The Popular Magazine for Boys and "Old Boys":

General Fiction Index

Dec-1903 – Sep-1927, as The Popular Magazine:

General Fiction Index

24-Sep-1927 – 31-Dec-1927, as The Popular Stories:

General Fiction Index

7-Jan-1928 – Oct-1928, as The Popular:

General Fiction Index

20-Oct-1928 – Oct-1931, as The Popular Magazine:

General Fiction Index

#merges with Complete Stories

Publishers

Street & Smith Publications, Inc.

Editors

Nov-1903 – 1904: Henry Harrison Lewis
1904 – 1928?: Charles Agnew MacLean

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

  Nov-1903 – Nov-1906: 10c
  Dec-1906 – 1916: 15c
  1916 – Oct-1931: 20c

Pagecounts

  Nov-1903 – Nov-1906: 194pp (first 3 issues 96pp)
  Dec-1906 – 1916: 224pp
  1916 – Oct-1931: 208pp

Frequency

  Nov-1903 – Sep-1909: monthly
  Oct-1909 – Sep-1927: twice-monthly
  24-Sep-1927 - 1-Jul-1928 (weekly)
  7-Jul-1928 - Jan-1931 (twice-monthly)
  Feb-1931 – Oct-1931: monthly

Related Sites

  The Pulp Magazines Project
  Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Popular Novels

Total Issues: 77

Issues & Index Sources: 1900 – 1910:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Max Stein & Co., 508 S. State St., Chicago
Prices:   15c
Sources:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Popular Romances

see under Thrilling Confessions

Popular Schoolgirls' Stories

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers: Anglo-American Magazine Co.
Pagecounts: 52pp

Popular Science Fiction

Total Issues: 6+2=8

Mostly reprints from US magazines.

Issues & Index Sources

#1, 1953 – #6, 1955:

Science Fiction Index

#2, 1965 – #2, 1965:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers

Blue Diamond, Sydney, Australia

Editors

Ronald Forster

Formats

digest

Prices

1/6d

Pagecounts

64pp

Frequency

thrice yearly

Related Sites

Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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Popular Science (Monthly)

An American magazine carrying popular science content, with articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects and the occasional piece of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1872 – ?, as Popular Science Monthly:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

? – present, as Popular Science:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Bonnier Corporation (in 2018)

Editors

Joe Brown (in 2018)

Related Sites

  Wikipedia
  MagazineArt

Website:   www.popsci.com

Popular Screen

Mentioned in Henry Steeger's article in Pulp Era #67.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1934 – ?

Publishers: Popular Publications