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Compact: The Young People's Digest
Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Compact Magazine, Inc., a subsidiary of the Publishers of the Parents' Magazine
Editors:   Claire Glass (in 1954)
Formats:   digest

Companion for Youth

 see under Boys' and Girls' Companion for Leisure Hours

Companion Library [1870]
Issues & Index Sources:  1870 (?)
Publishers:   Henry Lea
Frequency:   monthly

Companion Library [1919]

Total Issues: 328

Women's pocket library.

Issues & Index Sources:  1919 – 1932
Publishers:   Amalgamated Press
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   2 per month

Compass: Current Reading

Total Issues: 2

Irregular magazine reprinting articles and some fiction from a range of sources.

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1945 – 1946: FictionMags Index
Publishers:   Compass Books Ltd.
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   124pp

Compelling Science Fiction

Total Issues: 10 (to Winter 2017)

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-2016 – present: Science Fiction Index (Missing: any after #10, Winter 2017)
Publishers:   Joe Stech, Boulder, CO
Editors:   Joe Stech
Formats:   online
Website:   www.compellingsciencefiction.com
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The Competitors' Journal

 see under Everybody's Weekly

Complete Action Novel

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1932: FictionMags Index
Adventure Fiction Index
Publishers:   Complete Novel Publishing Co., Inc.
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Complete Adventure Magazine

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1937: FictionMags Index
Adventure Fiction Index
Publishers:   Western Magazines 'Red Circle'
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Complete Adventure Novelettes

Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1932 – Feb-1933: FictionMags Index
Adventure Fiction Index
Publishers:   Clayton Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
 
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Complete Aviation Novel Magazine

Total Issues: 7+4=11

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1929 – Oct-1929: Adventure Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Nov-1929 – Feb-1930, as Complete Flying Novel Magazine: Adventure Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Apr-1929 – Oct-1929: Ramer Reviews, Inc.
  Nov-1929 – Feb-1930: Good Story Magazines

Editors

  Apr-1929 – Oct-1929: William L. Mayer
  Nov-1929 – Feb-1930: probably Douglas Dold

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  20c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Complete Bestsellers

Complete Bestsellers usually reprinted a novel in each issue, but Vol 3 No 9 (1983), titled "Best of Aldiss", contains ten Brian Aldiss short stories, including two originals.

Issues & Index Sources

  May/Jun-1981 – 1982
  1983, as Bestsellers: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers

  Viaduct Publications Ltd.

Formats

  10.5" by 8.5"

Prices

  95p

Pagecounts

  80pp
 

Complete Cowboy

Total Issues: 24?+18=42?

Usually a long lead novel and two or three short stories and features. Title on cover during 1940's read Complete Cowboy Wild Western Stories.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1939 – Winter 1946: Western Fiction Index (sample issues only)
  Jul-1946 – Apr/May-1950, as Complete Cowboy Novel Magazine: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Dec-1946; Jul-1947)

Publishers

  Blue Ribbon Magazines (Columbia Publications), NY

Editors

  Robert W. Lowndes

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  15c

Pagecounts

  96pp

Frequency

  bimonthly, but quarterly in mid-40s

Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western
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Complete Cowboy (UK)
Issues & Index Sources:  1943: Western Fiction Index
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   48pp
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Complete Cowboy Novel Magazine

 see under Complete Cowboy

Complete Cowboy Wild Western Stories

 see under Complete Cowboy

Complete Detective

Total Issues: 6

A short-lived pulp from Western Fiction Publishing, not to be confused with the more successful Complete Detective Novel Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1938 – Oct-1939: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 2
Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing [Red Circle]
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   116pp
Frequency:   quarterly but irregular
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Complete Detective Cases

True crime. Continued numbering from Complete Detective.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1939 – Jun-1953

Publishers

  Macfadden Publishing, Washington and South Avenues, Dunellen, NJ
  in 1950s: Skye Publishing Co., 270 Park Ave., New York, NY, 60 W 46th St., New York, NY, and Louisville, KY

Frequency

  bimonthly

Complete Detective Novel Magazine

Total Issues: 76

Issues & Index Sources

  Jun-1928 – Jan/Feb-1935: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 3

Publishers

  Jun-1928 – Feb-1931: Novel Magazine Corporation, NY
  Mar-1931 – Oct-1931: Radio-Science Publications
  Nov-1931 – Jan/Feb-1935: Teck Publishing Corporation

Editors

  Jun-1928 – Feb-1931: Kenneth W. Hutchinson
  Mar-1931 – Jan/Feb-1935: B.A. Mackinnon

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  25c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  monthly (last two issues bimonthly)

Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Complete Detective Novel Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Complete Detective Novel Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s: Crime Fiction Index (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Teck Publishing Corporation
Formats:   standard pulp
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