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Famous Detective Stories

see under Crack Detective (and Mystery) (Stories)

Famous Detective Stories (Australia)

True accounts of famous adventures in crime and detection.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1946 – 1953

Publishers:   Frank Johnson, Sydney
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AustCmFc

Famous Detective Stories (UK)

see under Crack Detective Stories (UK)

Famous Fantastic Mysteries

Total Issues: 81

Issues & Index Sources

Sep/Oct-1939 – Jun/Jul-1953:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Sep/Oct-1939 – Dec-1942: Frank A. Munsey Company, N.Y.
Mar-1943 – Jun/Jul-1953: All Fiction Field imprint of Popular Publications, N.Y.

Editors

Mary Gnaedinger

Formats

standard pulp (small pulp/large digest briefly in early 1951)

Prices

initially 15c

Pagecounts

128pp (112pp for some issues)

Frequency

  Sep/Oct-1939: bi-monthly
  Nov-1939 – Apr-1940: monthly
  May-1940 – Jun-1942: bi-monthly
  Jul-1942 – Dec-1942: monthly
  Mar-1943 – Dec-1945: quarterly
  1946 – Jun/Jul-1953: bi-monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Famous Fantastic Mysteries.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Formats: standard pulp
Sources: Pulpster11

Famous Lives

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1929 – Jun-1929

Publishers:   Magazine Publishing
Formats:   bedsheet
Frequency:   bi-monthly

Famous Novel Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1927 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Famous Magazine

Famous Police Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Famous Science Fiction

Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1966/1967 – Spring 1969:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Health Knowledge Inc.
Editors:   Robert A.W. Lowndes
Formats:   digest
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly



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Famous Spy Stories

Total Issues: 3

Entirely reprint, almost wholly Max Brand's Anthony Hamilton series.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan/Feb-1940 – May/Jun-1940:	Cook/Miller
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Frank A. Munsey Company
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE

Famous Stories

Total Issues: 4?

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1937 – Sep-1937?:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: Jul-1937, Aug-1937, Sep-1937)

Publishers:   Review of Reviews
Formats:   digest
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   monthly

The Famous Story Magazine

Total Issues: 17

A reprint magazine, similar to the British titles Best-Story and Argosy (which also began in the mid-1920s). Ran from vol. I no. 1 (Oct. 1925) to vol. VI no. 2 (Feb. 1927). Three issues per volume. Some misnumbering of volume numbers.