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Magazine Issues

Mystery Detective (Stories) (Canada)

Total Issues: 6?

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s?:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(sample issue only)

Formats:   pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   32pp


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Mystery Detective (UK)

see under Street & Smith's Shadow Mystery Magazine (UK)

Mystery Digest

Total Issues: 41

Issues & Index Sources

May-1957 – May/Jun-1963:	Monthly Murders	(Missing: Sep/Oct-1961)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Sep/Oct-1961)

Publishers

Filosa Publications, N.Y., first 2 issues; then Shelton Publishing, N.Y..

Editors

  May-1957 – May/Jun-1963: Rolfe Passer
  Sep-1957 – Mar-1958: Joseph Commings
  May-1958 – Jan-1959: William Macfarlane
  Mar-1959 – Dec-1959: Donald E. Westlake
  ?: Jon A. Tetra

Formats

digest

Prices

35c

Pagecounts

128pp (reduced to 96pp)

Frequency

bi-monthly, except monthly Nov-1958 - Jun-1959

Sources

UltGuide, CookMDE



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Mystery Island Magazine

Total Issues: 5 (to Mar-2005)

Small-press print magazine focussing on a different theme each issue, containing art, articles, essays, poems, and short stories. Known issues include:

#1, Summer 2004: Walking the Plank (Johnny Cash tribute) #2, Autumn 2004: Bottled at the Source (the "All Blues" issue) #3, Winter 2004: Rocket Party (Star Trek tribute) #4, Spring 2005: Pinheads from Mars (the "Punk Rock" issue) #5, Summer 2005: Love & Sadistic Dharma (Hunter S. Thompson tribute)

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 2004 – present

Publishers:   Mystery Island, 384 Windward Way, Sacramento CA 95831
Website:   www.mysteryisland.net
Editors:   Nicky Clifton
Formats:   8.5" x 11"
Prices:   $4.99
Frequency:   quarterly

Mystery League

Total Issues: 4

See "Mystery League: A Summary" by Nils Hardin, Xenophile #14, Jun-1975

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1933 – Jan-1934:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   League Publishers, N.Y.
Editors:   Ellery Queen
Formats:   large pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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Mystery Magazine [1917]

Total Issues: 195+21=216

Title bought by Street & Smith in 1929 and incorporated into Best Detective

Issues & Index Sources

15-Nov-1917 – Aug-1927:	Cook/Miller	(Missing: May-1927)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: May-1927)

Sep-1927 – May-1929, as Mystery Stories:	Cook/Miller
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

Frank Tousey/Harry Wolff until 1-Jul-1926; then The Priscilla Company

Editors

Luis P. Senarens to 1924, then Robert Simpson

Formats

1917 – 1925: dime novel format
1925 – 1929: pulp

Prices

1917 – 1925: 10c

Pagecounts

1917 – 1925: 64pp

Frequency

twice monthly to 1-Jul-1926, though no issues appeared between 15-Jan-1925 and 15-Jan-1926; monthly from Oct-1926

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE




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Mystery Magazine [1939]

see also under Best Detective Magazine

Mystery Magazine (UK)

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: 1946?:	Miller/Contento
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers: William C. Merrett, Ltd., London, England.

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Mystery Monthly

Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1976 – Feb-1977:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Looking Glass Publications, N.Y.
Editors:   Eric Protter
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $1.00
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   CookMDE



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Mystery Novels and Short Stories

Total Issues: 6

A weird-menace magazine; the first issue was Vol.1 No.4. The title may be a continuation of Mystery Novels Magazine but it is not certain whether any magazine preceded this for the first three issues.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1939 – Sep-1941:	Miller/Contento
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Columbia Double-Action
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Mystery Novels Magazine (Quarterly)

Total Issues: 8+9+?+?=?

Silberkleit claimed he had not bought the title from Doubleday, Doran, but simply used it, but his version of the magazine begins from Vol. 2 No. 5, and the last Doubleday issue was registered at the copyright office as Vol. 2 No. 4, so it is clearly a continuation.

Issues & Index Sources

Summer 1932 – Summer 1934:	Pulp Magazine Index 1
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Jan-1935 – Aug-1936:	Pulp Magazine Index 1
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Nov-1936 – Jun-1937?, as Real Northwest Adventures:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Dec-1937 – ?, as Real Northwest Magazine

Publishers

  Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: Doubleday, Doran
  Jan-1935 – Aug-1936: Winford Publications, N.Y. (Louis Silberkleit)
  Nov-1936 – ?: Northwest Publishing

Editors

Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: H.E. Maule

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: 25c

Pagecounts

Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: 256pp

Frequency

Summer 1932 – Summer 1934: quarterly
mostly bi-monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Mystery Stories [193?]

Total Issues: 25

A companion title to Mystery and Detection, Mystery Stories was a mixture of new stories and reprints, but drew mostly from lesser-known British sources or American pulps.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1936 – Feb-1942?:	Miller/Contento	(Missing: #6, #12, #16, #17)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: #6, #12, #16, #17)

Publishers:   World's Work
Editors:   H. Norman Evans
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   128pp (reduced to 80pp after 1939)
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   AgeStory



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Mystery Stories (UK) [195?]

see under Dime Mystery Magazine (UK)

Mystery Stories [1927]

see also under Mystery Magazine

Mystery Street

Listed on www.thrillingdetective.com, this was a stillborn magazine. A fantastic idea by Pulphouse Publishing of Eugene, Oregon, MYSTERY STREET was going to be "The New Wave of Crime Fiction". We started with a 10,000 word story by Kate Wilhelm, stories from John Lutz, George Alec Effinger, Lee Floren and others. We put together the first issue (a great cover by Peggy Ranson) but Pulphouse went under before we got the magazine into print. O'Neil de Noux was the magazine's editor.

Mystery Tales [1938]

Total Issues: 9

Began with Vol.2 No.3 - uncertain if any prior magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1938 – May-1940:	Miller/Contento
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing Co., Chicago.
Editors:   Robert O. Erisman
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE



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Mystery Tales [1958]

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1958 – Oct-1959:	Monthly Murders
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Atlas Magazines, N.Y.
Editors:   Evan Lee Heyman
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE


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Mystery Thrillers

Total Issues: 2

The lead stories are reprinted from old Gramol booklets from the 1930s but the other stories appear to be new (at least in the second issue).

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1942 – Sep-1942:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Prices:   4d
Pagecounts:   48pp
Sources:   CookMDE

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Mystic

Total Issues: 16

Primarily an occult non-fiction magazine which, in its early issues, was about half fiction and half articles. After the fourth issue the fiction was greatly reduced and appeared only sporadically after the seventh issue. Later issues contain articles by Richard S. Shaver that may be of interest to some collectors.

The magazine settled firmly into a non-fiction format about the time that Palmer sold his interest in its chief competitor, Fate, and the title was changed to Search with the October 1956 issue. It was still running at the time of Palmer's death in 1977.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1953 – Jul-1956:

Miller/Contento

Oct-1956 – ?, as Search:

Miller/Contento

(fiction from first issue only)

Publishers

Palmer Publications, Evanston

Editors

Raymond A. Palmer

Formats

digest

Prices

35c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

bi-monthly

Sources

UltGuide

Mystic Fiction Magazine

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1993? – present

Publishers:   Mystic, Bellevue, Washington
Editors:   Su Llewellyn
Frequency:   quarterly

Mystic Magazine

Total Issues: 5

Mystic Magazine dealt with the occult: numerology, tea reading, astrology, crystal gazing, palmistry, fortune telling, etc. The magazine felt as though it was aimed at a female market. There were occasional fiction pieces but the majority of the contents were non-fiction. The magazine lasted four issues and then became True Mystic Crimes for one last issue, in which the contents were similar except for the change in tone away from a female orientation to a more traditional pulp male viewpoint.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1930 – Mar-1931:

Miller/Contento

Apr-1931, as True Mystic Crimes:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Fawcett Publications

Editors

August Derleth

Formats

large pulp

Prices

25c

Pagecounts

100pp

Frequency

monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide