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Real West

Issues seen for Sep-1969 and 1977.

Issues & Index Sources

  196? – 197?

Frequency

  Jan-1973 – Jul-1975: monthly
  Sep-1975 – May-1976: bi-monthly
  Jan-1980 – ?: every 6 weeks
  Jun-1982 – ?: bi-monthly

Sources

  The Pulp Western

Real Western Magazine/Stories

Total Issues: 149?

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1935 – Oct-1949: Western Fiction Index (sample issues only)
  Dec-1949 – Apr-1960, as Real Western Stories: Western Fiction Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Ace Magazines; taken over by Columbia Publications in 1940?

Editors

  A.A. Wyn at outset; Robert W. Lowndes under Columbia

Formats

  Jan-1935 – Dec-1958: standard pulp
  Feb-1959 – Apr-1960: digest

Prices

  15c

Pagecounts

  112pp

Frequency

  bi-monthly

Sources

  The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western
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Real Western (Stories) (Canada)

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Western Fiction Index (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Duchess Printing & Publishing
Formats:   pulp
Sources:   The Pulpster #11, 2001
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Real Western Mystery Novels

There is rumoured to be a pulp magazine of this title, but no positive evidence of it has been found. (MDE)

Issues & Index Sources:  ?: Crime Fiction Index (Missing: all issues; possibly phantom)
Sources:   The Pulp Western
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(Real) Western Romances

Total Issues: 41?

The April 1952 issue is titled just Western Romances and the Jul-1957 is Western Romances on the cover.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1949 – Dec-1960?: Western Fiction Index (sample issues only; some issues titled just Western Romances)

Publishers

  Columbia Magazines

Editors

  in 1951: Robert W. Lowndes
  c. 1952 – Sep-1957?: Marie Antoinette Park

Formats

  standard pulp

Frequency

  mostly bi-monthly

Sources

  The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western
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Real Western Stories

see under Real Western Magazine/Stories

Real Western Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 6?

British reprint edition of Real Western Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1952: Western Fiction Index (Missing: #1, #2, any after #6)
Formats:   standard pulp
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Recent Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1946 – ?
Publishers:   Associated Weekly Newspapers (1946); Export Publishing Enterprises Ltd. (1949)

The Recluse

Total Issues: 1

A one-shot amateur journalism publication with a high concentration of fantasy and fantasy-related material. Often considered the first fanzine, though it predates the formation of SF fandom by several years. A "facsimile" reprint (actually a Xerox) was issued by Moshassuck Press, Glenview, IL in 1990.

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1927: Miller/Contento
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Records of Love, or Monthly Amusement for the Fair

A magazine aimed primarily at women and featuring serial 'genteel histories'.

Issues & Index Sources:  1710
Frequency:   monthly?

Red Arrow

Total Issues: 52

Issues & Index Sources

  19-Mar-1932 – 18-Mar-1933

#incorporated into Adventure

Publishers

  D.C. Thomson

Formats

  small format

Frequency

  weekly

Red-Blooded Stories

Total Issues: 5+4=9

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1928 – Feb-1929: Fictionmags Website
Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)
  Mar-1929 – Jun-1929, as Tales of Danger & Daring: Fictionmags Website
Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  New Metropolitan imprint of Macfadden Publications

Formats

  Oct-1928 – Feb-1929: standard pulp
  Mar-1929 – Jun-1929: quasi-slick, large format

Prices

  25c

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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The Red Book

Early authors little known but later included Ellis Parker Butler, Octavus Roy Cohen, George Allan England, Gilbert Parker, Albert Payson Terhune; became 'the Magazine for Young Readers' in 1949 before becoming an upmarket women's magazine in the 1960s. Absorbed American Home in Mar-1978.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1903, as The Red Book Illustrated: Fictionmags Website (Missing: all issues)
  Jun-1903 – Apr-1905, as The Red Book: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  May-1905 – Dec-1929, as The Red Book Magazine: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
  Jan-1930 – present, as Redbook: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  1903 – 1929: Short Story Company [later Consolidated Magazines Corporation]
  1929 – ?: McCall

Website

  www.redbookmag.com

Editors

  ?: Trumbull White
  ?: Karl Harriman
  1911 – 1918: Ray Long
  1929 – 1949: Edwin Balmer
  1949 – 1958: Wade Nichols
  1958 – ?: Robert Stein
  in 2000: Dawn Raffel

Formats

  May-1903 – Sep-1917?: standard
  Oct-1917 – 1920: quarto
  1920 – present: oversize slick

Prices

  initially 10 cents, rose to 15c and then 20c in Oct-1917

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  Ultimate Guide to the Pulps
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Red Clay Reader

Total Issues: 7

An annual magazine that published the work of Southern authors and artists.

Issues & Index Sources:  1964 – 1970: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Southern Review
Editors:   Charleen Whisnant
Formats:   8.5" x 11" hardcover

Red Dime Detective

Total Issues: 1?

Reprints stories from the US Dime Detective. The cover and Table of Contents of the issue seen both give the title as above, but it is also referred to internally simply as Dime Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1949: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Magazine Fiction Group, Cartoon Art Productions, 333 Victoria Road, Glasgow S2
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-
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The Red Dragon

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1882 – Jun-1887: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Daniel Owen, Howell and Co., Cardiff, Wales

Red Eft

Total Issues: 3

An "occasional publication" fanzine with fiction, poetry and interviews, featuring authors such as Janet Fox, D.F. Lewis & Steve Sneyd, etc. Went online in 2005.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1994 – Fall 1997: Miller/Contento (Missing: #1, Jul-1994)
Publishers:   Meg Smith, Lowell, Mass.
Website:   redeft.tripod.com
Editors:   Meg Smith
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