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OnthebusCountry: US
Subtitled "A New Literary Magazine".
Editors: Jack Grapes Prices: $7.00 |
Oomph Bedtime StoriesCountry: UKTotal Issues: 1
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Opaline SeriesCountry: USTotal Issues: 1
"A composite romance by twenty different popular writers".
Formats: 7 x 5" Prices: 25c Pagecounts: 300 Frequency: quarterly Mentioned in: Dime Novel Bibliography |
Open CityCountry: USTotal Issues: 30
Tries to emulate Partisan Review from the 1940s. Has published Cyril Connolly, Jim Thompson. Publishes perhaps 10 stories per year. Circulation 5,000.
Email Address: ocmagazine@aol.com Publishers: Open City, 225 Lafayette Street, Suite 1114, New York, NY 10012 (in 2000 - 2002) Editors: Thomas Beller, Daniel Pinchbeck (in 2000 - 2002) Formats: review Pagecounts: 200pp Frequency: quarterly Mentioned in: O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002) |
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Open ConfessionsCountry: UKTotal Issues: 1?
Prices: 1/3d Pagecounts: 30pp |
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The Open RoadCountry: USTotal Issues: 1?
A privately published magazine subtitled "A Magazine of the Future". The only issue seen contained only an editorial and a poem by Hersey.
Editors: Harold Hersey |
The Open Road [1919]Country: US
Boys magazine encouraging the outdoor life. Ran regular stories. Issues & Index Sources
PublishersOpen Road Publications, IllinoisEditorsPricesPagecountsFrequencymonthlyRelated SitesWikipediaOnline SourcesOnline Books |
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Open WindowCountry: UKTotal Issues: 12
An artistic and imaginative "new age" magazine with the emphasis on poetry, illustration, plays and stories. Authors include Lord Dunsany, E.M. Forster, Frank Swinnerton, Katherine Mansfield ("A Fairy Story" Dec-1910).
Editors: Vivian Locke Ellis Formats: an early "little" magazine (6" x 4.5") Pagecounts: 65pp Frequency: monthly Mentioned in: British Literary Magazines Vol. 3 |
Operation FantastCountry: UKTotal Issues: 7+17=24
Fanzine. Issues & Index Sources
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Operator #5Country: USTotal Issues: 17+31=48
A character pulp. The lead novels are all SF but the back-up stories almost never are. The novels from June 1936 to March 1938 are sequential and tell the story of the "Purple Invasion." Another sequence, featuring an invasion by the "Yellow Vulture," was begun in May 1939 and had not been resolved when the magazine folded. Issues & Index Sources
PublishersPopular PublicationsEditorsRogers Terrill with Henry SperryFormatsstandard pulpPrices10cPagecountsFrequencymonthly to Apr-1936; then mostly bimonthlyRelated SitesScience Fiction EncyclopediaMentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines |
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OpportunityCountry: US
A magazine aimed at salesmen that ran some fiction in 1929/1930 at least. Succeeded by "Salesman's Opportunity" which may or may not have run any fiction.
Editors: James R. Quirk Formats: 13.5" x 9.5" slick Prices: 10c |
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Opportunity: A Journal of Negro LifeCountry: US
The house organ of the Urban League of Chicago "A journal of Negro life that would devote itself religiously to an interpretation of the social problems of the Negro population." From 1924 launched a literary competition to foster creative expression among young black writers, and to expose that writing to an audience outside of the African American community. Issues & Index Sources
PublishersNational Urban League, NYEditorsFormatstabloid?Pagecountsaround 32ppFrequencyRelated SitesWikipedia |
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The OptimistCountry: USTotal Issues: 9
A short-run little magazine whic mostly published articles and poetry, but included several brief pices of fiction.
Editors: H.S. Kneedler |
Optimus SeriesCountry: USTotal Issues: 38
Formats: 7¼ x 5" Prices: 50c ($6.00 per year) Pagecounts: 175 to 300 Frequency: Monthly Mentioned in: Dime Novel Bibliography |
Opus QuarterlyCountry: UKTotal Issues: 5
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The Oracle [1933]Country: UKTotal Issues: 1322
"A story paper for women," mentioned by George Orwell in his 1940 essay
on boys' weeklies. Title changed to Oracle sometime between 1952 and 1957. Issues & Index Sources
PublishersAmalgamated PressEditorsLen PrattWilliam Lewis Allen [Editor in Chief] Formatssmall tabloid (quarto)PricesPagecounts20pp (in 1957)Frequencyweekly |
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