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Romance [1891]

Country: US
Total Issues: 91?

All fiction, but mostly reprints.

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1891 – Dec-1891, as Romance: being Tales of the New York Story Club:

FictionMags Index

Jan-1892 – Jul-1897, as Romance:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

W.H. Benton, NY

Editors

Gilson Willets

Formats

small octavo

Frequency

monthly?

Romance. A Complete Illustrated Weekly Novelette [1897]

Country: UK

Companion weekly to My Queen; possibly a Harry Shurey publication?

Issues & Index Sources: 1897 – 1906

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Formats:   large digest (octavo)
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   48pp; 32pp from early 1898
Frequency:   weekly

Romance [1914]

Country: US
Total Issues: 28

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1914 – Jul-1916: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   The New Fiction Publishing Corporation (Clayton Magazines)
Formats:   digest (later a standard pulp)
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

Issue Checklist

Romance [1919]

Country: US
Total Issues: 12+7+8=27

Title acquired by Popular Magazines in 1934. Note that while the cover to the April 1929 issue was labeled ROMANCE Combined with EVERYBODY'S, the masthead read only ROMANCE. It was not until the June 1929 issue that both the cover and masthead carried the legend EVERYBODY'S Combined with ROMANCE as the title of the magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1919 – Oct-1920:

FictionMags Index

Nov-1928 – May-1929:

FictionMags Index

Jun-1929 – Jan-1930, as Everybody's Combined with Romance:

FictionMags Index

Publishers

The Ridgway Co.

Editors

Nov-1919 – Oct-1920: Arthur Sullivant Hoffman

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

Nov-1919 – Apr-1920: 20c
May-1920 – Oct-1920: 25c

Frequency

monthly

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

Online Sources

Online Books (2 issues only)



Issue Checklist

Romance (UK) [1923]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 54

A women's magazine with a mixture of love and dashing adventure stories. Authors include Elinor Glyn, Sydney Horler, Mrs Baillie Reynolds, Ellis Parker Butler. Serialised Leslie Beresford's "The Venus Girl" (Feb-1923 - Oct-1923). Story by Ivor Novello, "The Rat" (Aug-1924). From Jul-1924 included a photographic stage and screen insert.

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1923 – Jul-1927:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: Jun-1927; Jul-1927)

Publishers

Feb-1923 – Jan-1927: Odhams Press
Feb-1927 – Jul-1927: F.J. Parsons for The Blue Magazine Co.

Editors

  1923: Philippa Preston
  1924: W.A. Williamson
  1925 – 1926: Miss F.C. MacKenzie
  1926 – 1927?: J. Hoole

Formats

standard pulp (illustrated)

Prices

  Feb-1923 – Jun-1924: 7d
  Jul-1924 – Dec-1925: 9d
  Jan-1926 – Jul-1927: 1/-

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

monthly

Mentioned in: The Age of the Storytellers



Issue Checklist

Romance (UK) [1934]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 47

A women's magazine of love stories. One long story plus a serial. Authors include Denise Robins, Sylvia Snow, Vena Appleby. From #40 included insert of film stills.

Issues & Index Sources: 29-Jan-1934 – 17-Dec-1934:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Shurey's Publications, London
Editors:   Isobel Thorne
Formats:   large digest
Prices:   2d
Pagecounts:   48pp
Frequency:   weekly

Romance [1937]

Country: US
Total Issues: 2+1+4+117=124

Popular acquired the title to Romance from Butterick in 1934.

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1937 – Aug/Sep-1937:

FictionMags Index

Jan/Feb-1938 – Jul/Aug-1938:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Apr-1940 – Aug-1940:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Jan-1942 – Apr-1951:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Jun-1951 – Sep-1954, as Romance Magazine:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Popular Publications

Editors

Jan/Feb-1938 – Jul/Aug-1938: Jane Littell
in 1947 – in 1950: Peggy Graves

Formats

standard pulp (briefly digest in 1951)

Frequency

  Jan/Feb-1938 – Jul/Aug-1938: bimonthly
  Jul-1942 – Mar-1944: bimonthly
  May-1944 – Apr-1951: monthly
  Jun-1951 – Sep-1954: bimonthly

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