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)

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#incorporated into Detective Weekly

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Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1938 – Sep-1951:

Sports Fiction Index

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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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#incorporated into All Sports

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

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#incorporated into Football & Sports Favourite

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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:  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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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

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

Canadian reprint edition of Sports Novels Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  1-Apr-1922 – 3-Jun-1922

Publishers:   Odhams Press
Formats:   tabloid
Pagecounts:   16pp
Frequency:   weekly

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:  Dec-1947 – Nov-1948:

Sports Fiction Index

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

A series of Australian booklets, numbered but not dated.

School and sports stories about Jack Lightfoot, originally published in All-Sports Library.

Issues & Index Sources:  1942:

Sports Fiction Index

Publishers:   Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Formats:   bedsheet
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines