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Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1948:

FictionMags Index

Publishers:   The Wesley Press, Bebington, Liverpool

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1949

Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Pagecounts:   32pp

Subtitled "A Comic Weekly of Comic Stories by Comic Authors". All stories reprinted from Five Cent Comic Library.

Humorous magazine created chiefly from advance proofs and blocks of the American papers Puck, Life, and Judge. Possibly published some Sherlock Holmes parodies.

Amateur online magazine which converted into a blogzine.

The Society of Misfit Stories is a home for those wonderful stories that are too long for most magazines but too short for print.

Flagellation magazine containing various stories about corporal punishment and a correspondence section on the same. Despite being published in France, this was targeted at a British audience.

Fanzine.

A quarterly magazine of short genre fiction, most of it SF or fantasy.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s

Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
Prices:   2/6d

Fanzine.

A bimonthly magazine of radically hopeful and optimistic science fiction and fantasy.

Soldiers of Fortune lasted 4 issues from October 1931 to May 1932. It specialized in historical adventure, and in that sense, was a precursor to another short-lived pulp, Golden Fleece. Subtitled "Stories of Glamorous Romance and Adventure In All Lands In All Times", the covers were all painted by Jerry Delano and featured a knight in plate armor (10/31), a Robin Hood-type (12/31), a samurai warrior (2/32) and a Davy Crockett lookalike (5/32).

Perhaps its greatest claim to fame today is the indirect hand it played in the launch of Astounding Stories, as related by Harry Bates in the introduction to Alva Rogers' A REQUIEM FOR ASTOUNDING. At the end of 1929, William Clayton was going to publish a historical adventure pulp, to be called Torchlights of History. The editor he tabbed for the task was Harry Bates, who begged off and instead convinced Clayton to publish a SF magazine. However, Bates could not so easily escape his fate--when Soldiers of Fortune was launched in 1931, he was its editor.

Issues & Index Sources:  1969 – 1973?:

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Publishers:   American Art Enterprises, Inc., 21322 Lassen Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311
Editors:   Russ Gordon

Star Trek fanzine.