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Prize Detective Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Published as a companion to Prize Air Pilot Stories and Prize Story Magazine, the magazine offered "Amazing Mysteries", but folded after a mere four issues.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1929 – Mar-1930:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

Nov-1929 – Feb-1930: Prize Story Publishers, Inc., 404 N. Wesley Avenue, Mt. Morris, IL.
Mar-1930: Affiliated Magazines, Inc., 1133 Broadway, New York, NY

Formats

standard pulp

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Ghost Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Large size magazine anthology, mostly reprints from Ghost Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 1963:

Science Fiction Index


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Prize Sea Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1964 – Summer 1964?

Publishers:   Macfadden-Bartell
Mentioned in:   It's a Man's World


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Prize Story Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 17?

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1928 – Feb-1930?:

General Fiction Index

(Missing: Nov-1929; Dec-1929; any issues after Feb-1930)

Publishers

Aug-1928 – Dec-1929?: Prize Story Publishers, Inc., 33 West 60th Street, NY
Feb-1930: Affiliated Magazines, Inc., 1133 Broadway, New York, NY

Formats

bedsheet

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Western

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1946: Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   H.C. Blackerby, Holyoke, Mass.
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Probe

Country: South Africa
Total Issues: 198 (as at Apr-2024)

Fanzine which frequently publishes fiction, including the winners of the NOVA Short Story Competition.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun/Jul-1969 – present:

FictionMags Index

(incomplete)

Website: www.sffsa.org.za

Publishers

Science Fiction & Fantasy South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Editors

  1969 – Aug-1978: Tex Cooper
  Nov-1978 – Jan-1987: Gail Brunette
  May-1987 – May-1988: Tony Davis
  Aug-1988 – Oct-1993: Neil Van Niekerk
  Jul-1994: Neil Van Niekerk & Derek Hols
  Oct-1994 – Feb-1995: Derek Hols
  Jul-1995 – Feb-1998: Cedric Abrahams
  May-1998 – Nov-2000: Deirdre Byrne
  2001 – 2006: Liz Simmonds
  Aug-2006 – present: Gail Jamieson



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Procrastination

Country: US
Total Issues: 15

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: ? – 1981

Publishers: Darrell Schweitzer, 113 Deepdale Rd, Strafford, PA 19087
Editors: Darrell Schweitzer

Procyon

Country: UK
Total Issues: 5

Fanzine that published some fiction by Brian Stableford.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1975 – Jun-1978

Editors: John Collick

Prof. Stone Adventures

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

A cover was designed for a third issue (July 2008) but possibly renamed as Thrilling Adventures.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-2007 – Mar-2008:

Adventure Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Publishers:   Wild Cat Books
Editors:   Ron Hanna
Formats:   paperback
Prices:   $10.00
Pagecounts:   64pp


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Progress

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources: 1932 – ?

Publishers: Street & Smith

The Progressive Grocer

Country: US

Magazine for retail grocers that featured fiction in the 1920s & 30s.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1922 – present

Website: progressivegrocer.com
Editors: J.W. Greenberg (in 1922)

Prohibited Matter

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 10

Essentially a horror fiction fanzine, and while all the stories had an element of horror some tended more towards crime or science fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1992 – May 1999:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Rod Marsden & Dan Boyd, P.O. Box 19, Spit Junction, NSW
Editors:   Rod Marsden
Related Sites:   ZineWiki

Pro Se Presents

Country: US
Total Issues: 20

Originally an umbrella title for Fantasy & Fear, Peculiar Adventures and Masked Gun Mystery, Pro Se Presents... was launched as a replacement for all three in August 2011.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-2011 – Winter/Spring 2014:

Adventure Fiction Index

Website:   prose-press.com/pro-se-presents
Publishers:   ProSe Productions, Batesville, Arkansas
Editors:   Barry Reese
Formats:   trade paperback
Frequency:   monthly (to Mar-2013) then quarterly



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Prospect [1943]

Country: UK

'Little' magazine of modern verse, criticism and short stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 1943 – ?

Publishers:   Claremont Press, 17 Bromwich Road, Worcester
Editors:   Edward Toeman, David West, Gladys Keighley, H.F. Bradley
Prices:   1/6d
Frequency:   twice yearly

Prospect [1995]

Country: UK

Mainly a political and cultural magazine, resembling the latter-day versions of the American monthlies, Harper's and The Atlantic. Like those, it tends to publish one short story per issue, usually by a writer of "literary" repute.

Issues & Index Sources: 1995 – present

Website:   www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
Publishers:   Stephen Brown
Editors:   David Goodhart
Formats:   small slick
Frequency:   monthly

Prospective Review

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources: 1845 – 1854: The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 3

Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 3