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Police Report

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1955

Publishers: Brookside Enterprises Inc., 55W 42nd St., New York, NY

Police Reporter Yearbook

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1956 – ?

Publishers: Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY
Frequency: annual

Political Barometer

Country: US

Weekly newspaper founded (with Jesse Buel) and edited by Isaac Mitchell which serialised his novels ALBERT AND ELIZA (1802), MELVILLE AND PHALEZ (1803) and ALONZO AND MELISSA (1804).

The Political Barometer was a successor to The Guardian and was itself succeeded by the Republican Herald, both Poughkeepsie newspapers, but neither is known to have published any fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 8-Jun-1802 – 21-Aug-1811

Publishers:   Mitchell & Buel, Poughkeepsie, NY
Editors:   Isaac Mitchell (8-Jun-1802 - Aug-1806)
Formats:   newspaper

Pollard's Popular Publications

Country: US
Total Issues: 19

Issues & Index Sources:  1890 – 1891: Dime Novel Bibliography (incomplete)

Publishers:   Pollard Publishing Co., 18 Barclay St., New York
Formats:   7½ x 5¼"
Frequency:   Semi-monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Polluto

Country: UK
Total Issues: 10

Small press magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 2008 – present

Website:   www.polluto.com/
Publishers:   Dog Horn Publishing, Leeds
Editors:   Adam Lowe

Polly Pigtails [1946]

Country: US
Total Issues: 43

Girl's comic that also published a couple of prose fictions stories in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1946 – Nov-1949:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Polly Pigtails, Inc. (sunsidiary of Parents' Magazine Institute)
Editors:   Jean M. Press
Frequency:   mainly monthly



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Polly Pigtails [1953]

See under Calling All Girls

Polly's Paper

Country: UK
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

Country: Canada
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

Country: UK

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

Issues & Index Sources

1949 – present

Website: www.ponymag.com

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

POP Literary Gazette

Country: US

Billed as underground literature.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1990s

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

Poppy's Library

Country: UK
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

Country: UK
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

Pagecounts

36pp

Frequency

weekly

Popshot Quarterly

Country: UK
Total Issues: 26 (to Winter 2019)

An illustrated literary magazine that publishes short stories, flash fiction, and poetry from the literary new blood.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-2009 – present

Website: www.popshotpopshot.com
Publishers: Chelsea Magazine Company Ltd

The Popular

see under Hardboiled

Popular Authors' Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  1891: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   American Publishing Co., Hartford, CO
Formats:   7 1/8 x 4¾"
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   350 to 400
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Popular Baseball

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1949 – Spring 1951: Sports Fiction Index

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


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Popular Biography

Country: US

Fictionalizes scenes from the lives of famous persons.

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

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