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Gangland-Racketeer Stories

Mike Cook in MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, AND ESPIONAGE MAGAZINES lists this as a Blue Band magazine in the 1930s, but this is probably a confusion for the merger of {Gangland Stories} and {Racketeer Stories}.

Gangland Stories

Total Issues: 14+3=17

Merged with Racketeer Stories in May 1932, with corresponding change in title, but numbering continued from Gangland Stories.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun/Jul-1930 – Mar/Apr-1932:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

May-1932 – Jul-1932, as Racketeer and Gangland Stories:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

Good-Story Magazine Co., last three issues as Blue Band Publishing.

Editors

Harold Hersey

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

mostly bi-monthly, but monthly Oct-1930 - Mar-1931 and May-1932 - Jul-1932.

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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The Gang Magazine

Total Issues: 3

One of the innumerable magazines introduced to capitalise on the reading public's fascination with gangsters and gun molls, The Gang Magazine was less successful than most and lasted a mere three issues.

Authors include Paul Ernst, Anatole France, Steve Fisher.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1935 – Sep-1935:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Lincoln Hoffman, N.Y.
Editors:   Jack Phillips
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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Gang Shorts

Total Issues: 4

Small pamphlet magazines issued toward the end of the Second World War when paper rationing was at its height.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1944 – Jul-1946:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: #2)

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Editors:   Gerald Swan
Formats:   large digest
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   36pp
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   CookMDE


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Gangster Pay-Off

One-shot magazine advertised in other Grant Hughes publications but no cover has ever been located so it may be phantom.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1948:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: All issues)

Publishers: Grant Hughes
Prices: 1/-

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Gangster Stories

Total Issues: 31+13=44

Initially one of Hersey's more successful pulps, Gangster Stories was sold in 1932, along with all his magazine assets. The new owners boastfully renamed the magazine Greater Gangster Stories but the readers were less impressed and the magazine folded after only 13 issues.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1929 – Nov-1932:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Apr-1933 – May-1934, as Greater Gangster Stories:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Nov-1929 – Nov-1931: Good Story Magazine Co.
  Dec-1931 – Nov-1932: Blue Band Publishing
  Apr-1933 – May-1934: See Publishing

Editors

Nov-1929 – Nov-1932: Harold Hersey

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

mostly monthly, but Jun/Jul-1930, and no Sep-1930; between Jun-1932 and Apr-1933 only one issue (Nov-1932).

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Gangster Women Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1945

Publishers: ABC Publishing Company, Toronto

Gang World

Total Issues: 25+7=1932

Gang World was one of the first gangster pulps, created by Popular Publications in 1930 and running for 25 monthly issues. When it folded in November 1932, the title was picked up by Spencer Publications, but by then the pressure against gangster pulps was growing and the magazine only lasted for a further seven issues.

Authors include Erle Stanley Gardner, J. Allan Dunn, Robert Sidney Bowen, Arthur J. Burks. The Feb-1932 and Apr-1932 issues are the same as the Mar-1932 and Jun-1932 Blue Steel Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1930 – Nov-1932:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Dec-1933 – Jul-1934:	Cook/Miller	(Missing: Apr-1934)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Apr-1934)

Publishers

Oct-1930 – Nov-1932: Popular Publications, N.Y.
Dec-1933 – Jul-1934: Spencer Publications

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

Oct-1930 – Nov-1932: 20c
Dec-1933 – Jul-1934: 15c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

monthly, but no Aug-1932

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Ganymede Science Fiction

Total Issues: 3

Small press SF magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1976 – #3, 1976:

Fictionmags Website


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Garage Floor (fnz)

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1957 – ?

Publishers: Larry Stark and Jean Young, 11 Buene Vista Park, Cambridge, MA
Editors: Larry Stark and Jean Young

Gardiner's Magazine

Contained "Clever Short Stories for Every Reader, Tales of Adventure, Sense and Nonsense, Metropolitan Swelldom, Men's Furnishings, Page for Little People, Artistic Home Decorations."

Issues & Index Sources: May-1901 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   A.P. Gardiner Pub. Co., 320 Broadway, New York (for F.W. Chase)
Formats:   bedsheet
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   monthly

Garfield Boys' Journal

Total Issues: 45

aka Aldine Garfield Boys' Journal

Issues & Index Sources

26-Sep-1894 – 31-Jul-1895

#becomes Aldine Cheerful Library

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Pagecounts

24pp

Frequency

weekly

Garfield Library

Total Issues: 92

Issues & Index Sources

1890 – 1897

#becomes Garfield Library (New Series)

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Pagecounts

84pp; 192pp

Frequency

monthly

Garfield Library (New Series)

Total Issues: 8

Reprints the first eight numbers of the original Garfield Library from 1890.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1901 – Mar-1901

Publishers:   Aldine Publishing Co.
Prices:   2d
Frequency:   4 per month

Gargoyle (France)

Carried fiction by Malcolm Cowley, Robert Coates, and others as well as poetry and articles reflecting on the Paris literary scene of the day.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1921 – Oct-1922?

Publishers:   7, Rue Campagne-Premiere, Paris, France
Editors:   Arthur Moss
Frequency:   monthly

Gargoyle (US)

Total Issues: 44 (to Jan-2002)

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1976 – present

Publishers:   Atticus Books, P. O. Box 6216, Arlington, VA 22206-0216; 1508 U Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.gargoylemagazine.com
Editors:   Richard Peabody & Lucinda Ebersole (in 1998 - 2002)
Email Address:   atticus@atticusbooks.com
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Garland

Total Issues: 209

A boys' story paper.

Issues & Index Sources

1-Aug-1896 – 29-Jul-1900

#incorporated into Nuggets

Publishers

James Henderson

Editors

Alfred W. Barratt

Pagecounts

32pp

Frequency

weekly