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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)
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

Sure-Shot Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1945 – ?

Surprise

Total Issues: 89

Boy's illustrated story-paper.

Issues & Index Sources

  5-Mar-1932 – 11-Nov-1933

#incorporated into Bullseye

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  F.G. Cordwell; Philip Davis (Assistant Editor)

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly

Surreal

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.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 2005 – present
Publishers:   Cavern Publishing Group, PO Box 1424, Salem, NH 03079
Website:   surrealmag.com
Editors:   Mike Miller
Prices:   $5.50
Frequency:   quarterly

Suspect Detective Stories

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.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1955 – Oct-1956: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Royal Publications
Editors:   Larry Shaw
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   erratic
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE
 
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Suspense [1946]

Total Issues: 4

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

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1946 – Mar-1947: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Suspense Magazine, Los Angeles
Editors:   Leslie Charteris
Formats:   digest
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   112pp
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE
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Suspense [1951]

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.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1951 – Winter 1952: Miller/Contento
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Farrell Publishing, NY
Editors:   Theodore Irwin
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   144pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Sources:   UltGuide, CookMDE
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Suspense [1958]

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.

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug-1958 – Apr-1961: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

#merges with The Argosy

Publishers

  Aug-1958 – Jul-1959: The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London E.C.4.
  Sep-1959 – Apr-1961: Fleetway Publications, Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London E.C.4.

Formats

  Pocketbook

Prices

  2/-

Pagecounts

  160pp

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  CookMDE
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Suspense Stories

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.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1954 – Nov-1954: Mystery Short Fiction
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Curtis Warren
Formats:   Digest
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   CookMDE
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Suspense Tales

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.

Issues & Index Sources:  v1 #4, 1959: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   Suspense Publication, Inc., New York
Editors:   Christopher Plumberton
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Svelte

Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Swagger

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1951 – ?

Swan American Magazine

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.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1946 – 1950: Miller/Contento
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Editors:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   small pulp
Prices:   9d (#1 - #13), 6d (#14 - #16)
Pagecounts:   36pp (#1 - #13), 48pp (#14 - #16)
Frequency:   irregular but vaguely quarterly
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