Boys' story-paper. Reprinted many Sexton Blake stories from the Union Jack. Ran Charles Hamilton's school and adventure stories (under various pen names). Companion to The Penny Wonder.

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#incorporated into The Boys' Friend

#becomes The Ranger

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The first 1d illustrated story paper.

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Consisted entirely of fiction and fabricated police reports in order to by-pass the stamp duty on newspapers. Succeeded because of its many Dickens imitations like "The Life and Adventures of Martin Puzzlewhit" by Bos (1843).

Boys' story-paper. Ran more sinister stories than its companion, The Penny Wonder, including detective and gothic stories. Has been called 'curiously old-fashioned'.

Although now thought of as a US magazine, Penthouse started as a British magazine and stayed separate from the US magazine even when the latter was launched. In the Playboy mould, it regularly published fiction, though less frequently and with less distinction than the magazine it emulated, and for some years Graham Masterton was fiction editor.

There are news reports that the magazine was relaunced some time in the 2000s but this is believed to be simply a UK distribution of the US magazine.

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Launched as a US version of the British Penthouse, the first four years reprinted covers and some internal features from the British version until, in late 1973, it established a separate presence with original covers and features.

Online SF magazine.

"A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism".

Low-paying online magazine

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Weekly newspaper that published fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Gerald Kersh, who also had a regular column in the 1940s under the name Piers England.

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Issues & Index Sources:  1860

Publishers:   J.W. Mange
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

A coelacanth of the British periodical publishing industry, a 19th-century story paper which is still going as a popular weekly of light romances.

Note that issues seem to start from #8, 4-Aug-1869.

"50,000 - 55,000-word family and romantic stories aimed at 30+ age group".

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – 1890

Publishers:   Peters & Co.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Issues & Index Sources:  1885 – 1929:

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Publishers:   F.M. Lupton
Online Sources:   Hathi Trust

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1881 – Jan-1882:

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Publishers:   George H. Gilman, Houlton, ME
Formats:   12 x 17¾"
Pagecounts:   8
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography