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Super-Detective (Canada)

Total Issues: 3?

Canadian reprint edition of Super Detective.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: v1 #1 & v1 #2)

Publishers: Duchess Printing & Publishing, Toronto, 104 Sherbourne St., Toronto, Ontario
Pagecounts: 64pp

Super-Detective (UK)

Total Issues: 7?

British reprint edition of Super Detective.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: #2, #5, #6, any after #7)

Publishers:   Thorpe & Porter
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   100pp



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Superman World Adventure Library

Issues & Index Sources: 1967

Publishers:   World Distributors Ltd
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   monthly

Supernatural Stories

Total Issues: 108

This series started out as anthologies in an ambiguously magazine-like format. After a hiatus, it was revived as one of the Badger Books paperback lines. Novels first appeared with #29; they alternated with the anthologies after #42. Not a true magazine, in that most volumes of stories were contracted to single authors, who supplied the entire contents, though R.L. Fanthorpe is known to have subcontracted a few stories to other writers. In the first 8 volumes the interior pages are numbered 5 to 132.

Issues 13,15,17,19 also entitled Out of This World.

Issues & Index Sources

#1, 1954 – #109, 1967:

Miller/Contento

(some issues titled Out of This World or Supernatural Special)

Publishers

John Spencer & Co., London

Editors

Maurice Nahum & Sam Assael

Formats

#1, 1954 – #8, 1955: small digest
#9, 1957 – #109, 1967: pocketbook

Prices

  #1, 1954 – #8, 1955: 1/6d
  #9, 1957 – #99, 1965: 2/-
  #100, 1965 – #109, 1967: 3/6d

Pagecounts

#1, 1954 – #8, 1955: 132pp
#9, 1957 – #109, 1967: 160pp (some 144pp)

Frequency

  #1, 1954 – #8, 1955: bi-monthly
  #9, 1957 – #17, 1958: bi-monthly
  #18, 1958 – #109, 1967: mostly monthly/six-weekly




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Supernatural Tales

Total Issues: 14 (to Jan-2009)

Small press ghost story magazine

Issues & Index Sources

#1, 2001 – present:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

David Longhorn, 291 Eastbourne Avenue, Gateshead, NE8 4NN

Website

www.chico.nildram.co.uk/SupernaturalTales.html

Editors

David Longhorn

Formats

A5

Prices

  2001 – 2003: £2.50
  2004: £3.50
  2005: £6.00

Pagecounts

  #1, 2001: 52pp
  #2, 2001: 64pp
  Spring 2004: 93pp

Frequency

twice-yearly



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Super Science and Fantastic Stories

see under Super Science Stories (Canadian)

Super-Science Fiction

Total Issues: 18

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1956 – Oct-1959:

Miller/Contento

Publishers:   Headline Publications
Editors:   W.W. Scott
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   UltGuide



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Super Science Novels Magazine

see under Super Science Stories

Super Science Stories

Total Issues: 16+15=31

No masthead credit was ever given to editors on Popular Publications pulps. The Statements of Ownership & Circulation in the following issues listed Henry Steeger as the editor: Jan 41, Feb 42, May 43, Mar 50 & Apr 51. The first four (or possibly five) post-war issues were printed in Canada and were about an inch taller than the later issues.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1940 – Feb-1941:

Miller/Contento

Mar-1941 – Aug-1941, as Super Science Novels Magazine:

Miller/Contento

Sep-1941 – May-1943, as Super Science Stories:

Miller/Contento

Jan-1949 – Aug-1951, as Super Science Stories:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Fictioneers, Inc., imprint of Popular Publications

Editors

  Mar-1940 – Aug-1941: Frederik Pohl
  Nov-1941 – May-1943: Alden H. Norton
  Jan-1949 – Aug-1951: Ejler Jakobssen

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

15c at outset

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

bi-monthly to May-1942 then quarterly; bi-monthly from Jul-1949

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Super Science Stories (Canadian)

Total Issues: 21

Preceded by a short-lived Canadian edition of Astonishing Stories, its sister magazine. Reprinted from both the US Super Science Stories and Astonishing Stories but later drew material from Famous Fantastic Mysteries and also published original stories later re-used in the US revival of Super Science Stories. After the US editions folded their leftover inventory was published in this edition.

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1942 – Oct-1944:

Miller/Contento

Dec-1944 – Dec-1945, as Super Science and Fantastic Stories:

Miller/Contento

Publishers

Popular Publications, Toronto

Editors

Alden H. Norton

Formats

standard pulp (80pp from Feb-1944)

Prices

15c

Pagecounts

96pp

Frequency

bi-monthly

Sources

Pulpster11




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Super Science Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 3+14=17

Issues & Index Sources

Oct-1949 – Jun-1950:	Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
	Fictionmags Website

Sep-1950 – Jun-1953:	Index to British Science Fiction Magazines
	Fictionmags Website

Publishers

Oct-1949 – Jun-1950: Thorpe & Porter
Sep-1950 – Jun-1953: Pembertons of Manchester

Prices

1/-

Pagecounts

Oct-1949 – Jun-1950: 96pp
Sep-1950 – Jun-1953: 64pp



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Super Sports

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1938? – Feb-1957?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Columbia Publications
Editors:   Robert W. Lowndes
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   quarterly (Mar-1952 is Vol.9 no.3)
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinSprt



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Super Sunday

Total Issues: 27

Issues & Index Sources: 15-Sep-1974 – 19-Jan-1975

Publishers:   Simavi
Formats:   broadsheet
Pagecounts:   8pp
Frequency:   weekly

Super Western Magazine

Total Issues: 4+8+6?=18?

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1937 – Mar-1938:

Pulp Magazine Index 3

(possibly further issues)

Oct-1938 – Jan-1940?, as Variety Western:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Mar-1940 – Jun-1941, as All-Novel Western Magazine:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers

Aug-1937 – Mar-1938: Periodical House
193? – Jun-1941: Ace Magazines

Editors

Rose Wyn

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c

Pagecounts

128pp

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest



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Sure-Fire Detective (Canada)

Despite the title this was not a Canadian reprint edition of Sure-Fire Detective Magazine but was a mixture of original stories and reprints from other US detective magazines.

The cover title was consistently Sure-Fire Detective but some issues were titled Sure-Fire Detective Stories internally.

Issues & Index Sources: 1941 – 1942?:	Cook/Miller	(sample issues only)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Duchess Printing and Publishing Co.
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Sources:   UltGuide, Pulpster11



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Sure-Fire Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 3

Short-lived magazine from Aaron Wyn's Magazine Publishers featuring rather standard fare for the period.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1937 – Jun-1937:	Pulp Magazine Index 3
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Magazine Publishers (Aaron Wyn)
Editors:   Harry Widmer
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


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Sure Fire Detective Stories

see under Off Beat Detective Stories

Sure Fire Screen Stories

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1934 – Apr-1934:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: Mar-1934, Apr-1934)

Publishers:   Dell
Editors:   M.C. Kelly
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Sure-Fire Western

Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1936 – Jan-1939?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Periodical House [A.A. Wyn]
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   started bi-monthly but irregular
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest