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.

A series of paperback books, reprinting from the popular German space opera series. The bulk of the volumes contain additional stories and magazine-like features. The first five volumes contained two PR stories each, separately titled but not separately by-lined - the two authors were listed together on the cover as if the stories were collaborations. Each double volume was numbered as one, thus getting instantly out of phase with the German numbering.

Volumes 6 through 108 contained 1 PR novel each, with varying amounts of back-up stories and features. The next 5 volumes reverted to the original format of publishing 2 PRs per book, but this time the stories were separately numbered. The volumes were formatted as if they were two books in one, but the pagination was continuous throughout.

The next three volumes were also doubles, each containing one numbered novel in the Atlan series (a spin-off of PR) and one PR that had been previously skipped and thus could not be assigned a number. These were followed by one double volume with two Atlan novels.

The final book from Ace was a single PR novel. This was reprinted from a different series of the German publications and was longer than the other novels. After Ace dropped the series they were published in pamphlet format, like that of the German originals, and distributed only through the mail. They were issued simultaneously in groups of six.

The next group issued consisted of one PR novel and five novels in a new series, Starman. To ensure that subscribers would buy all six, they were issued as one thick trade paperback, though they were paginated as six separate issues.

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Continued after Oct-1937 as a true story managzine called Personal Adventure.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1938 – Nov-1938?:

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Publishers:   Blue Ribbon Magazines (Columbia Publications)
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Issues & Index Sources:  1947?:

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Publishers:   Rayburn Productions, 76 Farleigh Road, London N.6
Pagecounts:   32pp

Subtitled "the how and why magazine". Primarily non-fiction but did publish the ten stories in TIMOTHY TEALEAF, BUSINESS INVESTIGATOR (1925) by W.W. Hill.

Subtitled 'the writers' own magazine'. Contained a story by J. Russell Fearn.

Quarterly literary journal with short fiction and poetry.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s

Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

A commercial literary magazine launched with the highest of aims, "the general diffusion of culture to save "universal mankind" from self-destruction".

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Gifford notes: "Some issues are double numbers; each issue has six perferated cards attached to the cover."

Issues & Index Sources:  2-Mar-1871 – 23-Mar-1871:

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Publishers:   Peterson Publishing Co., 102 Nassau St., New York, NY
Formats:   6 1/8 x 4"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   100
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1860s:

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Publishers:   T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA
Formats:   9 5/8 x 6"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   100
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

At outset closely associated with Mrs Ann Stephens, who was listed as co-editor till 1853. Attracted all the popular female writers of America including Caroline Kirkland, Emma Southworth, Rebecca Harding Davis, Louise Chandler Moulton, Frances Hodgson Burnett; bought Ella Wheeler Wilcox's first sale. Also ran Edgar Fawcett, Julian Hawthorn. Circulation 165,000 in 1870s, largest of any ladies' magazine.

Absorbed The Artist in Jun-1843, and the running title in the Jun-1843 issue (only) was given as The Artist and Lady's World.

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Issues & Index Sources:  1875 – 1888:

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Publishers:   T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA
Formats:   6¾ x 5¼"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   250 to 400
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography