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One: The Homosexual Viewpoint

Country: US

A LGBTQ magazine published by One, Inc, a homophile activist group founded in Los Angeles in 1952.

Issues & Index Sources

  Mar-1953 – Jul/Dec-1967: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
  Jan/Feb-1972 – Jul/Aug-1972

Publishers

  ONE, Incorporated, Los Angeles, CA

Editors

  in 1960s: Dan Slater
  Jan/Feb-1972 – Jul/Aug-1972: Richard Conger and Jim Kepner

On Spec

Country: Canada
Total Issues: 127 (as at Apr-2024)

Semi-prozine. "The On Spec editors are looking for original, unpublished speculative fiction (SF) and poetry -- fantasy, horror, ghost stories, fairy stories, magic realism, etc. Our mandate is to provide a market for the Canadian viewpoint, but we welcome submissions from writers everywhere, and have published authors from Canada, the U.S., Britain, New Zealand, South America, and more."

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1989 – present: Science Fiction Index (Missing: any issues after #127, Spring 2024)
Website:   onspecmag.wpcomstaging.com
Publishers:   The Copper Pig Writers' Society, Box 4727, Edmonton T6E 5G6, Canada
Editors:   Marianne O. Nielsen to Fall 1998, then Jena Snyder; Diane Walton in 2013; Lareina Abbott in 2022
Formats:   digest
Prices:   C$5
Pagecounts:   84pp
Frequency:   thrice yearly at outset but quarterly from Fall 1992
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia
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Ontario Review

Country: US
Total Issues: 57 (to Dec-2002)

Joyce Carol Oates one of the founders; has published work by Margaret Atwood, Pinckney Benedict, Russell Banks, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, Doris Lessing, Philip Roth. Although it does not publish a huge amount of fiction, Ontario Review "has one of the highest batting averages for prize-winning fiction in the field," (DeWitt Henry, Wilson Library Bulletin). Circulation 1,100.

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 1974 – Spring 2008: website
Website:   www.ontarioreviewpress.com
Publishers:   Ontario Review Press, Windsor, Ontario; 9 Honey Brook Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540 (in 2000 - 2002)
Editors:   Raymond J. Smith (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   152pp
Frequency:   twice yearly
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

Onthebus

Country: US

Subtitled "A New Literary Magazine".

Issues & Index Sources:  1989? – ?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Bombshelter Press, Los Angeles
Editors:   Jack Grapes
Prices:   $7.00

On the Spot Detective Tales

see under New All-Action Stories

On-Time Railroad Stories

see under Near-Miss Western

Oomph Bedtime Stories

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950: FictionMags Index
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London


Opaline Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

"A composite romance by twenty different popular writers".

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1895: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   Hobart Publishing Co., 503 Home Insurance Building, Chicago, IL
Formats:   7 x 5"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   300
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Open City

Country: US
Total 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.

Issues & Index Sources:  1990 – Dec-2010
Website:   www.opencity.org
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)

Open Confessions

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  1948?
Publishers:   Scion Ltd.
Prices:   1/3d
Pagecounts:   30pp


The Open Road

Country: US
Total 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.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1914: FictionMags Index
Publishers:   Harold Hersey
Editors:   Harold Hersey

The Open Road [1919]

Country: US

Boys magazine encouraging the outdoor life. Ran regular stories.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1919 – Jul-1925?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
  Oct-1925 – Mar-1950, as The Open Road for Boys: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
  Apr-1950 – Jun-1953, as Open Road: The Young People's Magazine: FictionMags Index (Missing: all issues)
  Jul-1953 – Oct-1954?, as The American Boy—Open Road: FictionMags Index (Missing: all issues)

Publishers

  Open Road Publications, Illinois

Editors

  in 1940: Clayton H. Ernst

Prices

  in 1940: 10c

Pagecounts

  in 1940: 34pp

Frequency

  monthly

Related Sites

  Wikipedia

Online Sources

  Online Books
Issue Checklist

Open Window

Country: UK
Total 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).

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1910 – Sep-1911
Publishers:   Locke Ellis, London
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 Fantast

Country: UK
Total Issues: 6+21=27

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1947 – Dec-1948
  Jul-1949 – May-1955: FictionMags Index (Missing: #6 supplement & 3 handbooks)
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Operator #5

Country: US
Total 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

  Apr-1934 – Aug-1935: Adventure Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Sep-1935 – Nov/Dec-1939, as Secret Service Operator #5: Adventure Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Popular Publications

Editors

  Rogers Terrill with Henry Sperry

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  Apr-1934 – Sep-1935: 128pp
  Oct-1935 – Nov/Dec-1939: 112pp

Frequency

  monthly to Apr-1936; then mostly bimonthly

Related Sites

  Science Fiction Encyclopedia

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
Issue Checklist

Operator #5 (Canada)

see under Secret Service Operator #5 (Canada)

Operator #5 (UK)

see under Secret Service Operator #5 (UK)

Opportunity

Country: 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.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1923 – May-1950: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The Opportunity Publishing Company, 750 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Editors:   James R. Quirk
Formats:   13.5" x 9.5" slick
Prices:   10c

Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life

Country: 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

  Jan-1923 – Winter 1949: FictionMags Index (partial issues only)

Publishers

  National Urban League, NY

Editors

  Jan-1923 – Sep-1928: Charles Spurgeon Johnson
  Oct-1928 – Jan-1945: Elmer Anderson Carter
  Jan-1945 – Jun-1947: Madeline L. Aldridge
  Jul-1947 – Jan-1949: Dutton Ferguson

Formats

  tabloid?

Pagecounts

  around 32pp

Frequency

  Jan-1923 – Dec-1944: monthly
  Jan-1945 – Summer 1948: quarterly
  Winter 1949: Special Issue

Related Sites

  Wikipedia

The Optimist

Country: US
Total Issues: 9

A short-run little magazine whic mostly published articles and poetry, but included several brief pices of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1900 – May-1901: FictionMags Index (Missing: Mar-1901; Apr-1901; May-1901)
Publishers:   The Nevernod Press, Boone, Iowa
Editors:   H.S. Kneedler


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