The Adventure,
Espionage and War Fiction Magazine Index
Miller and Cook, Philip Stephensen-Payne and Bill Contento
This project is underway, and the user
can seek up-to-date information by accessing
Locus Press 24.95
The War,
Espionage, and Adventure Fiction Magazine Index
(or Adventure Fiction Index in short)
is an attempt to provide an index to adventure fiction magazines in the same
style as the classic Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Fiction Magazine Index
compiled by Stephen T. Miller and William G. Contento, and the Crime, Mystery
& Gangster Fiction Magazine Index currently being compiled by Phil
Stephensen-Payne, Stephen T. Miller and William G. Contento. It will be
available both in CD-ROM format from Locus Press and as
a series of luxury hardback volumes from the Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.
The index is based (with permission) on the two classic indexes in this field
(both now long out of print):
- Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Fiction: A Checklist of Fiction
in U.S. Pulp Magazines, 1915-1974 compiled by Michael L. Cook and Stephen T.
Miller
- The Pulp Magazine Index compiled by Len Robbins
As well as making the contents of these classic indexes available to a modern
audience, the new index also includes a huge amount of new material, including:
- Contents for many of the issues that were not located for the above
indexes (as well as some issues the previous compilers were unaware of);
- Coverage of many English-language magazines published outside the US
that were excluded from the previous indexes;
- Coverage of many magazines that have been published since the previous
indexes were published;
- Coverage of a small number of magazines that the previous compilers
overlooked;
- Where available, more detailed information on the contents of certain
magazines (including story lengths and details of non-fiction contents).
The new index also corrects many of the errors that inadvertently crept into the
previous indexes.
Adventure Fiction Index Wants
http://www.philsp.com/afi3.html
- ACTION NOVELS: Oct-1929
- ADVENTURE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES: any except Jul-1937, Apr-1939,
Dec-1939
- ADVENTURES OF THE SEA DEVIL: 1932 (only issue)
- AIR ADVENTURES: Nov-1945
- AIRPLANE STORIES: Mar-1930, Nov-1930, Jan-1931
- ARMY ROMANCES: any except Spring 1946 & Autumn 1946
- AVIATION STORIES: Jul-1930
- CANADIAN WAR STORIES: any except Jun-1929; 1-Oct-1929; 15-Oct-1929
- EAGLES OF THE AIR: Oct-1930
- EXCITING NAVY STORIES: all after Winter 1942
- FIFTH COLUMN STORIES: Aug-1940
- FIVE-CENT ADVENTURES: any issues
- FIVE-CENT FLYING STORIES: any issues
- FLIGHT: any except Oct-1929
- FLYING ACES: Sep-1928, Jan-1929, Feb-1929, Jun-1929, Nov/Dec-1929,
Apr-1930, May-1930, Jun-1930, Dec-1931
- FLYING STORIES: Jul-1930
- FOREIGN SERVICE: any issues
- GEORGE BRUCE'S CONTACT: Jan-1934
- GEORGE BRUCE'S SKY FIGHTERS: any issues
- LUCKY STORIES: Jan-1930
- MOVIE ADVENTURES: Dec-1924
- MOVIE THRILLERS: any except May-1925
- NAVY ROMANCES: any except Spring 1946
- PRIZE AIR PILOT STORIES: Nov-1929; Jan-1930
- RAF ACES: Fall 1943 & Summer 1944
- RAPID-FIRE ACTION STORIES: any issues
- SAUCY MOVIE TALES: Jul-1937, Sep-1937, Oct-1937, any after Jan/Feb-1938
- SCARLET ADVENTURESS: Feb-1936
- SEA STORIES: any after Nov-1953
- SEA STORY ANNUAL: 1943 issue
- SECRET SERVICE STORIES: Oct-1928
- SKY BIRDS: Aug-1930
- SKY-HIGH LIBRARY MAGAZINE: Feb-1930 (and any other issues)
- SKY RAIDERS: Dec-1943, Summer 1944
- SPICY MOVIE TALES: any issues
- TALES OF ADVENTURE: Jul-1930, Sep-1930
- 10 ACTION ADVENTURES: Jan-1939 (and any other issues)
- THREE STAR MAGAZINE/STORIES: most issues
- THRILLING STORIES: all except Dec-1929
- THRILLS: any 1925 issues, Aug-1927
- 12 ADVENTURE STORIES: Aug-1939
- VARIETY STORY MAGAZINE: Jul-1938, Oct-1938
- WAR STORIES: Apr-1927, Jul-1927, May-1932
- WAR STORIES MAGAZINE: Jul-1953
- WILD GAME STORIES: May/Jun-1926, Jul/Aug-1926
- WINGS: Dec-1928, May-1931, Jun-1931, Jul-1931, Sep-1931
- WORLD WAR STORIES: any issues
- ZEPPELIN STORIES: May-1929