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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: 11 (to Summer 2018)

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-2016 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #11, Summer 2018)

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:

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:

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:

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



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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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Complete Detective Stories [1941]

Total Issues: 1?

A short-lived Canadian magazine about which virtually nothing is known. The title was reused a few years later for a true crime magazine and again in 1946 for another fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1941:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers: Victory Publishing Company, Suite 309-10 Hamilton Trust Building, Toronto, ON
Formats: standard pulp


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