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Cricket

Literary magazine for children 9 and over. Discussed at length in Children's Magazine Guide.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1973 – present:

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Open Court Publishing, La Salle, IL to Mar-1995; then Carus Publishing, Peru, IL
Website:   www.cricketmag.com
Editors:   Clifton Fadiman (in 1974); Lynn Gutknetcht; Deborah Vetter
Formats:   digest (in 1974); later slick
Prices:   $1.25 (in 1974); later $3.95
Pagecounts:   96pp (in 1974); later 64pp
Frequency:   monthly

Cricket & Company

UK edition of Cricket, although exact relationship is unclear.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1974 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Open Court Publishing, 59 St. Martin's Lane, LONDON WC2N 4JS
Editors:   Clifton Fadiman (in 1974)
Formats:   digest (in 1974)
Prices:   35p (in 1974)
Pagecounts:   96pp (in 1974)
Frequency:   monthly

Crime and Justice Detective Story Magazine

Total Issues: 4

Really a gangster magazine with atmosphere of a 40s pulp. Old-time writers G.T. Fleming-Roberts and Robert Sidney Bowen appeared alongside newcomers Harlan Ellison and Edward D. Hoch.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1956 – Mar-1957:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Everett M. Arnold, 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, Mass
Editors:   Alfred Grenet
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE


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Crime Annual

Issues & Index Sources: 1951 – ?

Crime Busters

see under Best Detective Magazine

Crime Confessions

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Crime Confessions (UK)

Total Issues: 1?

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1948:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers: John Spencer & Co.
Prices: 1/-


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Crime Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Sources: CookMDE



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Crime Detective (UK)

Total Issues: 1?

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1949?:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: All issues)

Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp

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Crime Digest

Total Issues: 4

A short-lived magazine presenting extracts and condensations of forthcoming books. Companion magazine to Science Fiction Digest.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct/Nov-1981 – Sep/Oct-1982:	Mystery Short Fiction
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Davis Publications, N.Y.
Editors:   Elana Lore
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $1.50
Pagecounts:   192pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   CookMDE

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Crime Factory

Total Issues: 9

Hardboiled crime quarterly. Converted to a webzine after the 9th issue, and died shortly thereafter.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-2001 – Mar-2003:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Shiv Publishing
Editors:   David Honeybone
Formats:   A4
Prices:   A$10
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   quarterly



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Crime Fiction Stories

Total Issues: 1

Uncommon one-shot pulp from Trojan Magazines about which little is known.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1950:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Trojan Magazines, N.Y.
Formats:   digest
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide


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Crime Investigator

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War.

Four stories, British gangster fare. Authors David Andrews, Peter Legault and the pseudonymous Alton Boys/Dirk Saxon.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1949?:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp
Sources:   CookMDE

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Crime Lab Mystery Magazine

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1954:

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(sample issue only)

Editors:   Bradford Chambers & C. S. Green
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp

Crime Mysteries

Total Issues: 8

An early horror-oriented crime pulp magazine with a decided macabre slant, Crime Mysteries started as a weekly, but dropped back to a monthly schedule after only six issues and folded two issues later.

Issues & Index Sources: 19-Aug-1927 – Dec-1927:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Dell Publishing, 97 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.
Editors:   Arthur Lawson; Eugene A. Clancy
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-weekly till last two issues
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Crime Shorts

Total Issues: 4

Small pamphlet magazines issued toward the end of the Second World War when paper rationing was at its height.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1944 – Mar-1946:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Gerald F. Swan, London
Formats:   digest
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   36pp


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Crimespree Magazine

Total Issues: 21 (to Dec-2007)

A bi-monthly critical magazine that published some fiction in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun/Jul-2004 – present:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Jon and Ruth Jordan, 536 South 5th Street, Suite 1A, Milwaukee, WI 53204
Website:   www.crimespreemag.com
Editors:   Jon and Ruth Jordan
Prices:   $4.95



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