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The Family [1910s]

Country: US

Subtitled "a monthly magazine for the home".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1910s

Publishers:   The Family Publishing Co., 540 La Salle Avenue, Chicago, IL
Prices:   25c per year
Frequency:   monthly

Family Star

Country: UK

Story paper, mentioned by Orwell in 1940; "serials of 30,000 to 50,000 words with strong emotional and dramatic interest... shorts, 1000 to 3000 words with good romantic interest".

Issues & Index Sources: 1934 – 1977:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, Courier Place, Dundee
Frequency: weekly

Family Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 129

Sub-titled 'the best complete story paper for the home'. Becomes: Weekly Friend and Family Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 23-Apr-1910 – 5-Oct-1912

Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Formats:   digest (octavo)
Frequency:   weekly

Family Story Paper (US) [1873]

Country: US
Total Issues: 2498

Story paper. Ran the "Old Cap Collier" stories from 1878; authors include Harry Enton, W.I. James, Emma Garrison Jones; circulation peaked at around 300,000.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1873 – 5-Aug-1905, as The New York Family Story Paper

12-Aug-1905 – 8-Oct-1921, as Family Story Paper:	FictionMags Index	(sample issue only)
	Dime Novel Bibliography	(sample issue only)

Publishers

Norman Munro

Editors

J.R. Abarbanell

Formats

tabloid

Frequency

weekly

Related Sites

American Women's Dime Novel Project

Mentioned in: Dime Novel Bibliography

The Family Story Paper (UK) [1875]

The Family Story Paper [1888]

Famous American Science Fiction

see under American Science Fiction (Magazine)

Famous Authors Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 75

Issues & Index Sources:  1923 – 1926: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Garden City Publishing Co., Garden City, NY
Formats:   7½ x 5"
Prices:   25c?
Pagecounts:   120-225
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Famous Cowboy Stories

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 25?

A series of Australian booklets, numbered but not dated.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: #1-#12; #14; #17; #20; #21; #22; #24)

Publishers: Malian Press, Sydney
Formats: digest

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Famous Crime Cases

Country: Canada

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Duchess Printing & Publishing Co.



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Famous Crimes

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Famous Detective Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1934 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Macfadden Publishing, Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, NJ
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

Famous Detective Stories

see under Crack Detective (and Mystery) (Stories)

Famous Detective Stories (Australia)

Country: Australia

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1946 – 1954?

Publishers:   Frank Johnson, 250 George Street, Sydney
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Australian Crime Fiction



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Famous Detective Stories (UK)

see under Crack Detective Stories (UK)

Famous Fantastic Adventures

Country: US
Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1971: Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers:   Clayton Publications, P.O. Box 1906, Wilson, North Carolina
Prices:   $2.50


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Famous Fantastic Mouse Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1995 – May-1996

Publishers: Redd Boggs

Famous Fantastic Mysteries

Country: US
Total Issues: 81+2=83

Famous Fantastic Mysteries was a fantasy fiction magazine offering reprints of scientific and fantastic classics from earlier decades. It ran from 1939 to 1953 for a total of 81 issues.

Published by the Frank A. Munsey Company, the publication began with an issue cover-dated September-October 1939, initially priced at 15 cents and edited by Mary Gnaedinger. With the first issue featuring A. Merritt's The Moon Pool and Ray Cummings' The Girl in the Golden Atom, the first issue was a success, and the schedule then went from bimonthly to monthly. Virgil Finlay was the magazine's leading illustrator.

Confronted with numerous requests for reprints, Gnaedinger launched a spinoff magazine, Fantastic Novels, in June 1940.

Issues & Index Sources

Sep/Oct-1939 – Jun/Jul-1953:

Science Fiction Index

Fall 2016 – Spring 2017:

Science Fiction Index

Website: www.steegerbooks.com/product-category/altus-press-products/pulp-magazines/

Publishers

  Sep/Oct-1939 – Dec-1942: Frank A. Munsey Company, NY
  Mar-1943 – Jun/Jul-1953: All Fiction Field imprint of Popular Publications, NY
  Fall 2016 – present: Altus Press

Editors

Mary Gnaedinger

Formats

standard pulp (small pulp/large digest briefly in early 1951)

Prices

initially 15c

Pagecounts

128pp (112pp for some issues)

Frequency

  Sep/Oct-1939: bimonthly
  Nov-1939 – Apr-1940: monthly
  May-1940 – Jun-1942: bimonthly
  Jul-1942 – Dec-1942: monthly
  Mar-1943 – Dec-1945: quarterly
  1946 – Jun/Jul-1953: bimonthly

Related Sites

  Wikipedia
  Science Fiction Encyclopedia

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



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Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Canada)

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 27

Canadian reprint edition of Famous Fantastic Mysteries. Identical to the US issues except half an inch longer and with Canadian adverts on the outside back cover.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1948 – Aug-1952:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Publishers:   All-Fiction Field Inc., Toronto; Popular Publications Inc., Toronto
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   112-130pp
Mentioned in:   The Pulpster #11, 2001



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Famous Feature Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

This had the size and external appearance of a comic book, but featured prose fiction (about comic strip characters).

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1938:

FictionMags Index

Publishers:   Dell Comics
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   66pp

Famous Kidnapings

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Publishers: World at War Publishing Co., 19 W. 44th St., New York, NY., 55 Morton St., New York, NY