Serialised Prest's notorious "The String of Pearls" about Sweeny Todd.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1860s:

Dime Novel Bibliography

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Jones & Co., 32 Congress St., Boston, MA
Formats:   5¼ x 3 7/8"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   96
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Mainstream monthly, tabloid, on newsprint that featured some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  5-Jul-1894 – 15-Jun-1896:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Conkey
Formats:   7 x 5"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   200
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

A slender publication, featuring six to eight racey short stories, interspersed with black and white nude or scantily-clad pin-up, purporting to be a US pulp magazine.

Featured "Features, Stories, Pictures".

Reprint magazine binding two unsold copies of Ginger Stories, and/or three back numbers of Snappy Stories and/or Live Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1929 – ?

Publishers:   Liberty Publishing Company, New York
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   50pp

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Consolidated Magazine Co., Jersey City, NY
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1949:

FictionMags Index

Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s:

FictionMags Index

Publishers:   B.Z.I., Wembley Park, Middlesex
Pagecounts:   32pp

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1939/1940:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Consolidated Magazine Co.
Prices:   25c
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps

The first few issues were titled Pep!.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s:

FictionMags Index

Publishers:   Ken Publishing Co.

Listed in Haining's "American Pulp Magazines", which includes covers for the Jun-1937 & Oct-1937 issues, and mentions a Nov-1937 one. The Jun-1937 issue is titled Pep Tec on cover and Table of Contents; the Sep-1937 is titled Pep Tec Stories on the table of contents and Pep "Tec" Tales on the cover; while the Oct-1937 and Nov-1937 issues are titled Pep Tec Tales on the table of contents and Pep "Tec" Tales on the cover.

The issues seen are partial reprints of US saucy pulps such as Vice Squad Detective and Spicy Detective Stories, so it is quite likely that this is actually a UK magazine (as the only known issues are in the UK) and that the listed publisher(s) and price are a smokescreen.

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Favours an international selection of fiction, poetry and essays. Occasional special issues. Contributors include Donald Hall, Louise Gluck, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike. Circulation, up to 2,000.