True crime.

Total Issues: 89

Boy's illustrated story-paper.

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Surreal Magazine is a quarterly print magazine, featuring short fiction and flash fiction tales of the supernatural, horror and occult, poetry, artwork, author interviews, and reviews.

Total Issues: 5

Suspect Detective Stories was a fairly standard crime digest featuring fast-action, contemporary, crime adventure stories. It never made a mark in the crowded marketplace for such fare and folded after 5 issues.

The issue numbering was continued by Infinity SF.

Total Issues: 4

An attempt to cash in on the popular CBS radio mystery show of the same title.

Total Issues: 4

A second attempt to cash in on the popular CBS radio mystery show of the same title, this version also ran for only four issues but included a wider range of material including a lot of science fiction.

There was a companion series of Suspense Novels that ran for 3 issues in 1951 publishing "Strange Pursuit" by N.R. DeMexico, "The Case of the Lonely Lovers" by Will Daemer and "Naked Villainy" by Carl G. Hodges.

Total Issues: 32

Created as a companion magazine to the British Argosy magazine, Suspense published many original stories by crime writers of the first rank. It lasted for 32 issues before being absorbed into its parent magazine.

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Total Issues: 3

Short-run magazine that published a series of original stories by the publisher's in-house writers ranging from gangster yarns to conventional tales of detection - often with a hint of science fiction or the supernatural.

Total Issues: 1

Only one issue is known. The derivation of the numbering has not been determined. It is possible that this is a continuation of the numbering begun by Shock Tales but, if so, the intervening issues would not appear to have been fantasy.

Total Issues: 2?

Total Issues: 17

A rotating genre magazine, with contents of issues varying between detective, sf and western magazines, mostly reprinted from Columbia Magazines. Each individual issue carried the name of an individual magazine, as follows:
  #1 Western Yarns, 1948
  #2 Detective Yarns, 1948
  #3 Crack Detective Stories, 1948
  #4 Famous Western, 1948
  #5 Western Yarns, 1948
  #6 Famous Western, 1948
  #7 Hooded Detective, 1948
  #8 Famous Western, 1948
  #9 Crack Detective, 1948
  #10 Famous Western, 1948
  #11 Future Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1948
  #12 Complete Cowboy Wild Western Stories,
  #13 Famous Western,
  #14 Complete Cowboy Wild Western Stories,
  #15 Science-Fiction Quarterly, 1950
  #16 Black Hood Detective, 1950

There is also at least #1 of a New Series, which is identical to #1 of the original series.

There appear to be four distinct series of the magazine. The first was subtitled "For the Man Who Knows" and looks somewhat like an Esquire clone. It ran from August 1941 to March 1942, and possibly only lasted for 7 issues. Later in the mid 1940s it reappeared as an all-reprint digest subtitled "The Modern Digest for Men", with pieces by known figures like Ambrose Bierce, Humphrey Bogart, Oscar Levant, Earl Wilson.

There was then a brief run in the early 1950s as a girly magazine. Finally, in the mid 1950s, it reappeared as a men's magazine and published stories by Robert Bloch, Avram Davidson, Barry Malzberg, Norman Spinrad, Henry Kuttner and a whole bunch of others.

The volume numbering was restarted for each of the series, except that the final series started at Vol. 3 No. 1.

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Total Issues: 79

"Saturday supplement to "My Queen" Library.

Total Issues: 1

Fanzine.

Total Issues: 14