Total Issues: 179 (to Jan-2005)

Principally a poetry magazine, but has published a considerable amount of fiction by Ballard and others. Circulation about 2,000.

Runs the whole gamut of creative work including photographs and graphics. Circulation about 1,750. Listed as deceased in Dec-2002.

Short story magazine featuring "new dynamic stories by America's new authors. Vol 1 No. 5 is copyrighted 1990.

Total Issues: 2

Secret Agent magazine dominated by lead novels. First issue all by John Jakes; second issue almost certainly by Michael Avallone under alias John Kennedy.

Total Issues: 1

See comment in Pulp Collector #21.

A mainly fiction-oriented juvenile magazine, roughly equivalent to Britain's The Boy's Own Paper. Originally a Boy Scout magazine; absorbed The Youth's Companion, 1929.

The first issue was labelled "A New Kind of Magazine, The best in Fiction, Fact and Features."

Total Issues: 6+30=36 (at least)

Thin digest that ran for at least 36 issues, in two separate series. Despite the title and the boast that it contained "fast-moving drama by popular American authors" it seems to have contained only stories by Australian authors, probably a small number under multiple pseudonyms.

Some issues may have just been titled American Crime.

There was also an associated series of standalone novelettes published by the same publisher under the same series title of which only two undated examples are known - THE COUNTERFEITERS by Rex Young and MURDER MADNESS by Steve Hawk.

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Total Issues: 12+30=42 (at least)

Thin digest that ran for at least 42 issues, in two separate series. Despite the title it seems to have contained only stories by Australian authors, probably a small number under multiple pseudonyms. Some issues were just been titled American Detective.

There was also an associated series of standalone novelettes published by the same publisher under the same series title of which only four undated examples are known - BULLETS FOR SALE by E. Hamilton Clay, SINGING DEATH by Gordon Alexander, and THE BLACK ORCHID and BULLETS FOR BLONDES, both by Steve Hawk.

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True crime.

Total Issues: 5?

Little is known about this publication, which is assumed to be a companion to American Detective Magazine. At least two of the issues contained multiple stories, but for the other issues identified to date only the lead novella is known and may comprise the total contents of the issue.

Total Issues: 7

First two issues were non-fiction, an outgrowth of the Chicago Newsletter. When relaunched it was a high-gloss semi-pro slick with emphasis on good artwork and presentation. Two or three stories per issue. Authors include Tanith Lee, T.M. Wright, Mercedes Lackey, Elizabeth Engstrom.

Total Issues: 12

A series of booklets published in Britain during World War II. Most featured nude photographs on the covers, and are understandably quite rare now. The later volumes were printed in Eire, as were second printings of some of the earlier titles.