Magazine Data File

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Magazine Issues

Complete Flying Novel Magazine

see under Complete Aviation Novel Magazine

Complete Gang Novel (Magazine)

Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1931 – May-1932:

Publishers:   Complete Gang Novel imprint of Hersey's Good Story Magazine
Editors:   Kenneth Owens; M.J. Keiley;
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly to Aug/Sep-1931, then monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Complete Love Magazine

Total Issues: 80

The May/Jun-1951, Aug-1951 and Oct-1951 issues were a hybrid comic/pulp magazine, and from Dec-1951 on it became a fully-fledged comic and continued as such until Sep-1956.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1938 – Oct-1951:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Ace Magazines/Periodical House
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Complete Love Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Complete Love Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: late 1940s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Ace International Publishing Corp
Formats: pulp

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Complete Love Novel Magazine

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1930 – Sep/Oct-1930:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Novel Magazine Corp.
Frequency:   mostly monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Complete Man

see under Ken for Men

Complete Man's Magazine

see under Ken for Men

Complete Movie Novel Magazine

Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1931 – Aug-1931:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Archer Press Corp.
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Complete Mystery Novelettes

Total Issues: 6

A short-lived all-reprint magazine which, despite its name, predominantly featured cops-and-robbers crime adventures, often featuring organised crime.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1931 – Apr-1933:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Clayton Magazines, N.Y.
Editors:   John Burr
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Complete Mystery Novelettes (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Complete Mystery Novelettes.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1933:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Formats: standard pulp
Sources: The Pulpster #11, 2001

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Complete Northwest (Novel) (Magazine)

Total Issues: 14+5+4=23

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1935 – Jan-1938, as Complete Northwest Novel Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

Mar-1938 – Dec-1938, as Complete Northwest Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Oct-1938)

Feb-1939 – Apr-1940, as Complete Northwest:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Jul-1939; Apr-1940)

Publishers

Columbia Magazine

Formats

standard pulp

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Complete Novel Magazine

Total Issues: 38+100+1=139

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. There was also a final, 139th, issue under the title Western Novelets.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1925 – Jun-1928:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: #2, Jun-1925; #24, Apr-1927; #35, Mar-1928)

Jul-1928 – Sep-1939, as Wild West Stories and Complete Novel Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issues only)

Dec-1939, as Western Novelets:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers

Novel Magazine Corp/Teck Publications. Red Circle may have taken over the title.
in 1929: MacKinnon-Fly

Editors

1931 – Sep-1939: Frederick Gardener

Formats

standard pulp (later 10c)

Prices

20c

Frequency

monthly at outset; later bi-monthly/irregular

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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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

Pagecounts

40pp

Frequency

weekly

Complete Novel Western

Probably a series of novels in digest form.

Issues & Index Sources: ?:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues; possibly phantom)

Sources: The Pulp Western

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Complete Police Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1954 – ?

Publishers: Zenith Publishing Corp, 655 Madison Ave., New York, NY
Frequency: quarterly

Complete Romance Magazine

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1949

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
	Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Real Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Complete Sports

Total Issues: 61

1955 issues are titled "Complete Sports Action"

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1937 – Oct-1955:

Sports Fiction Index

(Missing: v4 #6, July 1943 - probably phantom)

Publishers:   Western Magazines 'Red Circle'
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines



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