Magazine Data Page 105

Magazine Issues  
Home Prev Next Magazine Index Magazine Glossary


Double Action Detective (Australia)

Total Issues: 2 (at least)

A thin Australian digest printing original stories by Australian authors.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Action Comics Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney.
Sources:   AustCmFc
Issue Checklist

Double-Action Detective Stories

Total Issues: 24?

Double Action Detective Stories was a pulp magazine in every way but size, at a time when the competition had moved on to more sophisticated material. Initially published only twice a year (although the issues weren't dated), it shifted to a quarterly schedule after the fifth issue, and then to a bimonthly schedule the following year, changing its name at much the same time to Double Action Detective and Mystery Stories.

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1954 – Spring 1957: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Summer 1957 – Sep-1960: Monthly Murders (Missing: Jul-1960, Sep-1960 - may not exist)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Columbia Publications, N.Y.

Editors

  Robert A.W. Lowndes

Formats

  digest

Prices

  35c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  first 5 issues occasional; quarterly from Spring 1957; bi-monthly from May-1958

Sources

  UltGuide, CookMDE
 
Issue Checklist

Double-Action Gang Magazine

Total Issues: 6+9+1=16

Double-Action Gang Magazine was a short-lived member of the "Double Action" magazine group and claimed to be oriented to "guns, gangsters, gun molls and stories of true gang life". It ran on a vaguely bimonthly schedule for 4 years. The final, October 1939, issue was confusingly renamed to True Gangster Stories despite containing the same mix of fact and fiction as before.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1936 – Apr-1937: Pulp Magazine Index 3
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Dec-1937 – Jul-1939: Pulp Magazine Index 3
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Oct-1939, as True Gangster Stories: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Winford Publications (later Columbia Publications)

Editors

  Cliff Campbell

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  15c

Pagecounts

  12pp

Frequency

  bi-monthly (though second series drifted towards quarterly)

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Double-Action Western

Total Issues: 137 (at least)

Issues & Index Sources

  Sep-1934 – May-1960: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Winford Publications (later Columbia Publications), N.Y.

Editors

  Robert W. Lowndes (from 1942)

Formats

  Sep-1934 – Feb-1959: standard pulp
  Apr-1959 – May-1960: digest

Prices

  15c

Pagecounts

  112pp

Frequency

  bi-monthly/quarterly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
More Images

Double Action Western (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Double Action Western.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Columbia Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c

Double Action Western Stories

see under New All-Action Stories

Double Action Western (UK) [1942]

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1942: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   48pp

Double Action Western (UK) [1953]

Total Issues: 8?

British reprint edition of Double Action Western.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Fictionmags Website (Missing: #1, #2, #5, #8)
Publishers:   Hermitage Publications, Leicester
Formats:   standard pulp

Double Danger Tales

Total Issues: 63+1=64 (as at Jan-2008)

"Favorite pulp heroes in exciting new adventures as well as the adventures of all new heroes in the classic pulp tradition."

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1997 – Jun-2003: Fictionmags Website
  2007 – present

Publishers

  Feb-1997 – Jun-2003: Fading Shadows, Inc.
  2007 – present: Wild Cat Books

Website

  stores.lulu.com/wildcatbooks

Editors

  Feb-1997 – Jun-2003: Tom & Ginger Johnson
  2007 – present: Ron Hanna

Formats

  paperback (2007 - present)

Prices

  Feb-1997 – Jun-2003: $5.00 + $1.30 postage
  2007 – present: $14.95

Pagecounts

  Feb-1997 – Jun-2003: c. 80pp
  2007 – present: 218pp

Frequency

  Feb-1997 – Mar-2000: monthly
  Jun-2000 – Jun-2003: roughly bi-monthly
Issue Checklist

The Double Dealer

Total Issues: 48

Little magazine; authors include Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1921 – May-1926: Index to English-Language Little Magazines, 1890-1970
Publishers:   in New Orleans

Double Detective

Total Issues: 41+5+1=47

The original magazine folded in 1941 when Munsey sold the title (with others) to Popular Publications; shortly thereafter Munsey effectively revived it under the title Love-Crime Detective which ran for 5 issues in 1942. Then, in 1943, Popular revived the original title but it only lasted for a single issue.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1937 – Oct-1941: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Aug-1942 – Dec-1942, as Love-Crime Detective: Cook/Miller (Missing: Sep-1942, Nov-1942)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Mar-1943, as Double Detective: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Nov-1937 – Dec-1942: Frank A. Munsey Company
  Mar-1943: Popular Publications

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Frequency

  Nov-1937 – Oct-1940: monthly
  Dec-1940 – Oct-1941: bi-monthly
  Aug-1942 – Dec-1942: monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Doubletake

Total Issues: 26 (to Dec-2002)

A kind of cross between HARPER'S and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC with larger and heavier pages than either. Unites fiction, essays and photography. Pays good rates. Circulation 30,000. Announced in December 2002 that it had "temporarily suspended publication pending further funding" but reappeared in Spring 2003, only to be suspended again and then return in January 2006.

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer 1995 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Doubletake, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham, NC 27705 (in 1998); Doubletake, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.doubletakemagazine.org
Editors:   Roberts Coles & Alex Harris (in 2002)
Email Address:   dtmag@aol.com
Formats:   slick
Pagecounts:   144pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine

Carried some fiction but mostly articles, poetry, reviews and much satire.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1845 – Jun-1848
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   BritLit3

Downtown Detective

Total Issues: 35 (at least)

Thin Australian digest, mainly printing original stories by Australian authors.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Action Comics Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney.
Sources:   AustCmFc
Issue Checklist

The Dragnet Magazine

Total Issues: 17+24+162=203

Ten Detective Aces was probably the most successful of the many magazines that Harold Hersey launched, and certainly one of the longest running, but it took a while to find its mark. For the first 16 issues (to April 1930) it was called The Dragnet Magazine> and initially focussed on stories about gangsters and organised crime. However, by 1930 public interest in gangsters was fading and the magazine became more of a detective pulp, initially (for 24 issues) under the hybrid name Detective-Dragnet Magazine and then finally, from March 1933, under the name Ten Detective Aces under which it ran for an impressive 16 years.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1928 – Apr-1930: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  May-1930 – Dec-1932, as Detective-Dragnet Magazine: Pulp Magazine Index 3
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
  Mar-1933 – Oct-1949, as Ten Detective Aces: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Magazine Publishers (Harold Hersey to 1933 then Aaron Wyn)

Editors

  Harold Goldsmith, Harry Widmer, Maurice J. Phillips, Donald A. Wollheim

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  112pp

Frequency

  monthly to Oct-1943 then bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Dragon Magazine

Total Issues: 359

A gaming magazine with one or two stories per issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1976 – Sep-2007: Miller/Contento (Missing: any after #321, Jul-2004; Only fiction indexed)
Publishers:   TSR, Lake Geneva; taken over by Wizards of the Coast, 1801 Lind Avenue 1801 Lind Avenue S.W., Renton, WA 98055
Website:   www.paizopublishing.com/dragon.shtml
Editors:   Kim Mohan
Formats:   semi-slick
Frequency:   monthly
More Images

Dragonbane

Issues & Index Sources

  #1, 1978: Miller/Contento
  #3, 1980 – #4, 1983, as Dragonfields: Miller/Contento


Home Prev Next Magazine Index Magazine Glossary