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The Sporting Mirror

Country: UK
Total Issues: 60

A sports magazine that published fiction and/or poetry in most issues.

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1881 – Jan-1886: An Index to The Sporting Mirror
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Publishers:   Henry Etherington, 152 Fleet St.

The Sporting New Yorker

see under The New Sensation

Sport Life

Country: US
Total Issues: 15

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1954 – Jun-1957
Publishers:   Select Publications
Mentioned in:   It's a Man's World

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Sport, Music and Drama

see under Standard

Sports Action

Country: US
Total Issues: 22

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1937 – Dec-1948: Sports Fiction Index
Publishers:   Red Circle
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines

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Sports Afield

Country: US

"Hunting & fishing" magazine that occasionally published fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1888 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.sportsafield.com
Publishers:   Field Sports Publishing Inc (in 2019)
Editors:   Diana Rupp (in 2019)
Related Sites:   Wikipedia

Sports Budget

Country: UK
Total Issues: 595+241=836

Contains "serials of about 4000 word instalments and long complete stories of 18000 words in length. Also 4000 word short stories, usually series. All with love interest."

The title of the second series became The New Sports Budget for two issues, but reverted to Sports Budget with issue 3. Contained long complete stories and serials relating to sport, but towards the end carried more general features and fiction.

Incorporates: Football Weekly from 30-Jan-1937 (Gifford gives 23-Jan-1937)

Issues & Index Sources

  6-Oct-1923 – 2-Mar-1935
  9-Mar-1935 – 14-Oct-1939

#incorporated into Detective Weekly

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly (every Thursday)

Sports Fiction

Country: US
Total Issues: 43

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1938 – Sep-1951: Sports Fiction Index (incomplete)
Publishers:   Columbia Publications
Editors:   Robert W. Lowndes
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines

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Sports For Boys

Country: UK
Total Issues: 28

Issues & Index Sources

  9-Oct-1920 – 16-Apr-1921

#incorporated into All Sports

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Arthur Steffans; John W. Wheway (Sub-editor)

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly

Sports Fun

Country: UK
Total Issues: 13+29=42

Part comic, part story paper, based on the popular format of Film Fun but featuring sportsmen rather than film stars.

Issues & Index Sources

  11-Feb-1922 – 6-May-1922
  13-May-1922 – 25-Nov-1922

#incorporated into Football & Sports Favourite

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Arthur Steffens

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  20pp

Frequency

  weekly

Sports Illustrated

Country: US

Sports magazine; although almost wholly non-fictional (like other Luce publications), it has published occasional pieces of fiction, e.g. by Robert Graves.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.si.com
Publishers:   Time, Inc. (Henry Luce)
Formats:   big slick

Sports Leaders Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1948 – Oct-1948: Sports Fiction Index
Publishers:   Stadium Publishing
Editors:   Robert O. Erisman
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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Sports Library

see under Boys' Realm Football Library

Sportsman

Country: US
Total Issues: 75

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1953 – Aug-1965
  Nov-1965 – Jul-1966, as Sportsman and Guns
  Oct-1966 – Apr-1968, as Sportsman

Publishers

  Apr-1953 – Aug-1966?: Male Publishing (Martin Goodman)
  Oct-1966 – Apr-1968: Magnum-Royal Publications

Mentioned in:   It's a Man's World
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Sports Novels Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 85

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr/May-1937 – Apr-1952: Sports Fiction Index
Publishers:   Popular Publications
Editors:   Henry Steeger
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Frequency:   mostly bimonthly, but apparently no issues during 1945
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines

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Sports Novels Magazine (Australia)

Country: Australia

Despite the title this appears to be a non-fiction magazine rather than a reprint of Sports Novels Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1946 – Oct-1964
Publishers:   Thorn Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   monthly
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Sports Novels Magazine (Canada)

Country: Canada

Canadian reprint edition of Sports Novels Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1951: Sports Fiction Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Popular Publications Canada
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Pulpster #11, 2001
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Sports Pictorial

Country: UK
Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  1-Apr-1922 – 3-Jun-1922
Publishers:   Odhams Press
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly


Sports Shorts

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 26?

Published monthly between 1950 and 1953. Early issues in this series contained between 2 and 4 short stories, while later issues contained a single novelette. Issues up to #4 were 48 pages in length, while subsequent issues were 36 pages in length.

Issues & Index Sources:  1950 – 1953: Sports Fiction Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The Calvert Publishing Company, Sydney
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