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Magazine Issues

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: ?:

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:	Adventure Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Real Publications, Inc.
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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Complete Stories

Total Issues: 51+83+13+17+61+9+19=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:

General Fiction Index

Nov-1926 – Mar-1931, as Complete Stories:

General Fiction Index

Apr-1931 – 1-Oct-1931, as Street & Smith's Complete Stories:

General Fiction Index

15-Oct-1931 – 15-Jun-1932, as The Popular Complete Stories:

General Fiction Index

1-Jul-1932 – 22-Apr-1935, as Street & Smith's Complete Stories:

General Fiction Index

May-1935 – Jan-1936, as Street & Smith's Complete Magazine:

General Fiction Index

Feb-1936 – Oct-1937, as Complete Stories:

General Fiction Index

Publishers

Street & Smith Publications, Inc.

Editors

  1924 – ?: A. Lowry Sessions
  in 1930s: Ronald Oliphant
  1927 – Feb-1936?: Edmund 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: bimonthly

Sources

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



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Complete Stories (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Complete Stories.

Issues & Index Sources

c. 1932, as The Popular Complete Stories (Canada):

General Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

1932 – 1935, as Street & Smith's Complete Stories (Canada):

General Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

c. 1935, as Street & Smith's Complete Magazine:

General Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Formats

standard pulp

Sources

The Pulpster #11, 2001



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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:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

1923 – 1927, as The Complete Story Magazine (UK):

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

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 bimonthly, it rarely maintained such a schedule.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1932 – Oct-1934:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Carwood Publishing, NY
Editors:   Tom Wood
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   thrice yearly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Complete War Novels (Magazine)

Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1942 – May-1943:	Adventure Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing
Editors:   Robert O. Erisman
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   116pp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Complete Western Book Magazine

Total Issues: 1+143?=144?

Issues & Index Sources

May-1933, as Western Supernovel Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

Jul-1933 – Jun-1957, as Complete Western Book Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

(incomplete)

Publishers

Newsstand Publishers (Western Fiction)

Editors

Robert O. Erisman

Formats

standard pulp

Sources

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



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Complete Western Book Magazine (UK)

British reprint edition of Complete Western Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issue only)


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Complete Western Love Novelettes

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1931 – Mar-1933:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   Clayton Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Comrade

Supplement to Chums.

Issues & Index Sources: 24-Mar-1923 – ?

Publishers:   Cassell
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly