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Magazine Issues

True Battles of World War II

Total Issues: 12+

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1964? – Jun-1966?

Publishers:   Stanley Magazine Corp., 261 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10016
Editors:   Theodore S. Hecht
Formats:   US quarto
Prices:   50c
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   MansWorld

True Blue

see under True Blue War Library

True Blue Library

Total Issues: 133

Contains one long story and a short back-up serial. Also promoted the "True Blue Trusty Band", a club for readers join which had their own secret hand signals. Authors included Charles E. Pearce and Ogilvie Mitchell.

Issues & Index Sources

15-Jan-1898 – 16-Jul-1900

#becomes True Blue War Library

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Prices

½d

Pagecounts

20pp

Frequency

weekly

True Blue Library (Second Series)

see under True Blue War Library

True Blue (Third Series)

Total Issues: 75

Issues & Index Sources

20-Jan-1910 – 21-Jun-1911

#incorporated into Cheerful Adventure Library

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Editors

Walter H. Light

Frequency

weekly

True Blue War Library

Total Issues: 330

Title changes with issue 26 (30-Jul-1900) and 249 (1904). Entitled True Blue War Library, 1-25; True Blue Library, 26-248; True Blue, 249-330)

Issues & Index Sources

2-Feb-1900 – 30-May-1906

#incorporated into The Aldine Half-Holiday Library

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co., 1 Crown Court, Chancery Lane, London E.C.

Editors

Walter H. Light

Formats

pocket size; 6¾" x 10" from #4

Prices

Pagecounts

36pp; 20pp from #4; 32pp from #66

Frequency

weekly (every Thursday)

True Bootleg Crime Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Publishers: Norman Book Co.

True Cases of Scotland Yard

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Sources: CookMDE

True Confessions

Downmarket slick (imitating Macfadden's magazines)

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1922 – Jul-1925

Aug-1925 – Mar-1926, as Fawcett's Magazine:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Apr-1926 – Jul-1930, as Fawcett's Magazine: True Confessions

Aug-1930 – ?, as True Confessions

Publishers

Fawcett Publications

Editors

Florence J. Schetty (in 1959)

Formats

quarto

Prices

25c (in 1959)

Frequency

monthly

True Crime Magazine [1936]

Total Issues: 2

Fiction couched in a kind of non-fiction package.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1936 – Nov-1936?:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: any issues after Nov-1936)

Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing, Co.
Editors:   Arthur Perles
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide


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True Crime (UK) [1949]

Not seen, but advertised in an issue of Real FBI Detective Case Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1949:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: All issues)

Publishers:   Magazine Fiction Group, Cartoon Art Productions, 333 Victoria Road, Glasgow S2
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-

Issue Checklist

True Crime [1960s]

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Skye Publishing Co.
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   35c (in 1962)


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True Crime Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

True Crime Confessions

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: 1952:	Fictionmags Website
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers:   Scion Ltd.
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   32pp

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True Crime Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Sources: CookMDE

True Danger

see under Man's True Danger

True Detective

True crime - downmarket slick

Issues & Index Sources: 1925 – ?

Publishers:   TD Publishing (in 1954)
Editors:   R.F. Buse (in 1954)
Sources:   CookMDE



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True Detective Cases from Police Files

Men's magazine that possibly never published any fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Brookside Enterprises, 55 West 42nd Street, New York 36
Editors:   Abner J. Sundell (in 1957)
Prices:   25c (in 1957)
Sources:   CookMDE

True Detective Mysteries

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Sources: CookMDE