NOTES
ON THE CHECKLIST
NAVIGATION
There
are three types of pages displaying information about the magazines.
The
checklist page consists of small images of all of the magazines
shown in chronological order.
The image gallery displays a full-sized image of each magazine
title and may be paged through in chronological order.
The
indexes are linked to either Title History Pages or individual
magazine Image Pages.
History
pages display one or more title and publication information
for each title displayed. History pages with a single title
display a full-sized image of the magazine. History pages with
more than one title display small images.
History pages may be paged through in alphabetical sequential
order. The alphabetical order is based on the first title in
that group of titles (Amazing and Fantastic are listed by Amazing).
The
small images on multiple history pages are linked to full page
images of each title.
All
of the full sized images displayed on a History page may be
paged through sequentially in chronological order.
Viewers
may therefore: page through rows of small images on the main
page by using the menu below each row; may page through full-sized
images in chronological order by using the image gallery link;
may page through both large and small image title histories
in alphabetical order and may page through historically related
titled in chronological order.
Navigation
for these pages is not yet complete.
At
the present time, only the links from the Alphabetical Index
are active. To view a larger image of an individual magazine,
you must select the link for the appropriate title on the index.
If that links to a multiple edition Title History page, you
must once again select the desired magazine by clicking on its
title.
Individual
image pages for magazines dating from 1913 until the 1940s are
also linked in sequential order. You can page back and forth
amongst these full page images by clicking Prev Image or Next
Image.
ORGANIZATION
The
main index presents small images of all of the magazine titles
in the list, first in chronological and then in alphabetical
order.
Color
is used to convey additional at-a-glance information about the
magazines.
The
picture frame or border color indicates a publication's status
in the collection -
COLLECTION
STATUS |
| UNCOLLECTED |
COLLECTED |
The
background colors of the title field indicates the country of
publication. A color key is provided below.
TITLE
FIELD BACKGROUND COLOR |
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In
some cases complete dates are not known. Estimated dates (circa)
are placed first, followed by approximate dates (year only),
followed by quarterly dates (winter, spring, summer, fall),
followed by monthly (jan, Feb, Mar,), followed by bi-monthly
date (Jan-Feb, Feb-Mar). An example of a full calendar year
is shown below to illustrate this:
Circa
1940, 1940, Winter, Jan, Jan-Feb, Feb, Feb-Mar, Mar, Mar-Apr,
Spring, Apr, Apr-May, May, May-Jun, Jun, Summer, Jun-Jul, Jul,
Jul-Aug, Aug, Aug-Sep, Sep, Fall, Sep-Oct, Oct, Oct-Nov, Nov,
Nov-Dec, Dec, Dec-Jan, Circa 1941...
I've
prepared this checklist in order to aid my own collecting efforts.
In creating the list, multiple bibliographic sources were consulted
- The Wysocki Science Fiction, Fantasy, Weird, Hero Magazine
Checklist, the Roy Torgeson Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine
Checklist, The Official Price Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy,
The
Miller and Contento Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction
Magazine Checklist, Galactic
Central Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Magazines Checklist,
Noosfere
Pulp Magazine Index and the Visco
SF Covers site.
THE
COLLECTION
The
focus of my magazine collection is Volume 1, Number 1 issues
of the various SF&F titles. I can't specifically say why
the first issue of one of these magazines is more important
to me than an issue featuring a particular story, author or
artist, nor why I'd rather collect all of the Vol 1 Num 1 issues
rather than putting together an entire run of Astounding Stories
of Super Science, but there it is.
None
of these indexes, checklists and bibliographies are in complete
agreement with one another. In going through these lists I had
to make selections in determining whether a particular publication
met my criteria for "english language science fiction or
fantasy magazine". In general, that definition is as follows:
it must have been a professional publication, it must have an
english language edition and in most cases, the majority of
its content must be devoted to science fiction and/or fantasy
material. Seems pretty simple, right? OK. So define science
fiction please...
I
also include 'foreign' editions (versions of a magazine published
for a different national market), major title changes (Astounding
changing to Analog for example) and continuations of a title
after an interruption as qualifying for "Volume 1, Number
1" status.
Images
were gathered from a variety of sources. Images of volumes in
my collection are not scans of my copies (these will be replaced
with such scans when I've completed a physical move).
