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Polly Pigtails [1953]

See under Calling All Girls

Polly's Paper

Total Issues: 261

Contains one long story (22,000 words) plus an instalment of a serial "of the kind to appeal to working girls. Stories must be dramatic and it is preferred that the heroine is of the industrial classes."

Gifford says incorporated into Girls' Mirror, although that paper ends earlier.

Issues & Index Sources: 17-Nov-1919 – 30-Sep-1924

Publishers:   Shurey's Publications Ltd. (Charles Shurey), 11 Gough Square, London E.C.4
Editors:   J. Butler
Prices:   2d
Frequency:   weekly (every Monday)

Polygraff

Total Issues: 4

A quarterly anthology of short stories in science fiction, fantasy, horror, pulp, cyberpunk, and other genres of speculative fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-2009 – Jul-2010:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers: Polymancer Studios, Inc., 20 Weredale Park, Westmount, QC, H3Z 1Y6, Canada
Frequency: quarterly



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Pony

Publishes articles and short stories with a 'horsy' theme aimed at 8-14 year-olds.

Issues & Index Sources

1949 – present

Publishers

Haslemere, Surrey

Editors

  c. 1966 – 1971: Lt. Col. C.E.G. Hope
  c. 1978: Michael Williams
  c. 1983: Nancy Roberts
  c. 1993: Kate Austin
  c. 1998: Janet Rising

Frequency

monthly

Website: www.ponymag.com

POP Literary Gazette

Billed as underground literature.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s

Publishers:   P.O. Box 02071, Detroit, MI 48202 (in 2000)
Editors:   Karl Wenclas & Max Sitting (in 2000)
Sources:   O. Henry Awards Website (not in 2001 or 2002)
Email Address:   blah2@dhol.com

Poppy's Library

Total Issues: 208

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1928 – Jul-1937:

Story Paper Index

(Missing: #152, #206)

Publishers: Amalgamated Press
Frequency: 2 per month.

Poppy's Paper

Total Issues: 520+139+27=686

"Complete stories with stong love interest containing sensational and quick action, of about 10,000 words in length. Must be full of exciting interest and colour. Good intriguing plots and curtains absolutely necessary."

Incorporates My Story Weekly.

Issues & Index Sources

2-Feb-1924 – 20-Jan-1934:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

27-Jan-1934 – 19-Sep-1936

26-Sep-1936 – 27-Mar-1937, as Fortune

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Prices

2d

Pagecounts

36pp

Frequency

weekly

The Popular

see under Hardboiled

Popular

see under The Penny Popular

Popular Authors' Series

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources: 1891

Publishers: American Publishers Corporation
Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Popular Baseball

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 1949 – Spring 1951:

Sports Fiction Index

(Missing: Spring 1949)

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


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Popular Biography

Fictionalizes scenes from the lives of famous persons.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1929 – Jun-1930?

Publishers: Quality Publications, Inc., New York, New York

Popular Books, Henry A. Dickerman & Son

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources: 1900 – 1910

Publishers: Dickerman
Sources: Dime Novel Bibliography

Popular Complete Stories

see under Complete Stories

Popular Complete Stories (Canada)

see under Complete Stories (Canada)

Popular Detective

Total Issues: 133

Popular Detective is one of the basic detective pulps, both for its longevity (133 issues in 19 years) and for a consistent high quality of material from most of the top detective authors of the period.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1934 – Fall 1953:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

Nov-1934 – 1937: Beacon Magazines, Inc., 570 Seventh Avenue, later 22 West 48th Street, New York, NY.
1937 – Fall 1953: Better Publications, Inc., 22 West 48th Street, New York, NY and later at 10 East 40th Street, New York, NY.

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c at outset

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

monthly to Apr-1938, then bimonthly

Sources: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Popular Detective (Australia)

Total Issues: 14 (at least)

Another thin Australian digest, this one with a mixture of original stories and reprints from American pulps.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1954:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: #1, #13, any after #14)

Publishers: Action Comics, 14 Bond Street, Sydney
Sources: Australian Crime Fiction



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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