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Complete Novel Magazine

Total Issues: 38?+100?=138

From early 1927 the legend "Wild West Stories" appeared above the title on the cover, but the spine and ToC still referred only to "Complete Novel Magazine". Then, around Jul-1928, it was formally retitled Wild West Stories & Complete Novel Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1925 – Jun-1928?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Jul-1928? – Sep-1939, as Wild West Stories and Complete Novel Magazine: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Novel Magazine Corp/Teck Publications. Red Circle may have taken over the title.

Editors

  Frederick Gardener

Formats

  standard pulp (later 10c)

Prices

  20c

Frequency

  monthly at outset; later bi-monthly/irregular

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Complete Novel (UK)

Total Issues: 763

Each issue contained a lead novelette and a back-up serial. The British Library lists this as The Complete Novel Weekly.

Issues & Index Sources

  7-Nov-1925 – 15-Jun-1940

#merges with Smart Novels

Publishers

  1925 – c. 1933: Shurey's Publications
  c. 1933 – 1940: William Stevens

Editors

  1925 – c. 1933: Isobel Thorne

Prices

  2d

Pagecounts

  40pp

Frequency

  weekly

Complete Novel Western

Probably a series of novels in digest form.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Sources:   DinWest

Complete Police Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1954 – ?
Publishers:   Zenith Publishing Corp, 655 Madison Ave., New York, NY
Frequency:   quarterly

Complete Sensational Library

Gifford notes "no information held on this title" which sounds like a cover blurb rather than a series in itself.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?

Complete Sky Novel

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1930 – Apr-1931: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Real Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Complete Sports

Jan-1955 issue seems to be titled "Complete Sports Action"

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1937 – Oct-1955: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Western Magazines 'Red Circle'
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt
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Complete Stories

Total Issues: 253

This magazine took over from People's, whose last issue was v47 #3, 15-Aug-1924. There was a single issue (v1 #1, 1-Jul-1924) prior to this which may have been an ashcan, but the next issue (v1 #2, 10-Sep-1924) is subtitled on the ToC "With which is combined People's Magazine" and has the People's numbering (v47 #4) on the spine and the new numbering (v1 #2) on the ToC. This was also true of the next issue (v1 #3/v47 #5, 25-Sep-1924), but thereafter only the new numbering is listed.

Issues & Index Sources

  1-Jul-1924 – 25-Sep-1926, as Complete Story Magazine: Fictionmags Website
  Nov-1926 – Mar-1931, as Complete Stories: Fictionmags Website
  Apr-1931 – 1-Oct-1931, as Street & Smith's Complete Stories
  15-Oct-1931 – 15-Jun-1932, as The Popular Complete Stories: Fictionmags Website
  1-Jul-1932 – Apr-1935, as Street & Smith's Complete Stories: Fictionmags Website
  May-1935 – Jan-1936, as Street & Smith's Complete Magazine: Fictionmags Website
  Feb-1936 – Oct-1937, as Complete Stories: Fictionmags Website

Publishers

  Street & Smith

Editors

  1924 – ?: A. Lowry Sessions
  in 1930s: Ronald Oliphant
  Dec-1930? – Feb-1936?: E. C. Richards
  Feb-1937? – Aug-1937?: Hazlett Kessler

Formats

  standard pulp

Frequency

  Jul-1924 – Apr-1935: mainly twice-monthly
  May-1935 – Jun-1937: monthly
  Jul/Aug-1937 – Sep/Oct-1937: bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
   
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Complete Stories (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Complete Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11

Complete Story Magazine

see under Complete Stories

The Complete Story-Teller

Total Issues: 196

Ran a long lead novella plus one or two very short stories or a serial.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1912 – 1923
  1923 – 1927, as The Complete Story Magazine
  1927 – 14-Jan-1928, as The Complete Story-Teller

#merges with Magazine of Fiction

Publishers

  William Stevens

Formats

  digest

Frequency

  monthly supplement to The Family Herald (for some of its run it was more frequent)

Complete Underworld Novelettes

Total Issues: 9

Although typical of the period, Complete Underworld Novelettes featured some of the better-known authors such as W.T. Ballard and Ace Williams. Billed initially as a quarterly, and latterly as bi-monthly, it rarely maintained such a schedule.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1932 – Oct-1934: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Carwood Publishing, N.Y.
Editors:   Tom Wood
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   thrice yearly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Complete War Novels (Magazine)

Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1942 – May-1943: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing
Editors:   Robert O. Erisman
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   116pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Complete Western Book Magazine

Total Issues: 1+174?=175?

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1933, as Western Supernovel Magazine: Fictionmags Website
  Jul-1933 – Jun-1957, as Complete Western Book Magazine: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Newsstand Publishers (Western Fiction)

Editors

  Robert O. Erisman

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Complete Western Book Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Complete Western Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1945

Complete Western Book Magazine (UK)

British reprint edition of Complete Western Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950

Complete Western Love Novelettes

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1931 – Mar-1933: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Clayton Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest


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