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Smash Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1945 – ?

Publishers: Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY

Smash Detective-Crime Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Smashing Detective (Australia)

Total Issues: 2 (at least)

Another thin Australian digest about which very little is known.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1954:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: all except #2)

Publishers: Action Comics, 14 Bond Street, Sydney


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Smashing Detective Stories

Total Issues: 27+6=33

One of the last detective pulps to be launched, Smashing Detective Stories featured hard-action stories of mystery and detection. After 27 issues the magazine title changed to Fast Action Detective and Mystery Stories but only 3 more pulp issues were published under this title, followed by 3 digest issues.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1951 – Nov-1956:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Jan-1957 – Feb-1958, as Fast Action Detective and Mystery Stories:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

Columbia Publications

Editors

Robert A.W. Lowndes

Formats

Mar-1951 – May-1957: standard pulp
Aug-1957 – Feb-1958: digest

Prices

Mar-1951 – May-1957: 20c
Aug-1957 – Feb-1958: 35c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

  Mar-1951 – Dec-1954: quarterly
  Mar-1955 – May-1957: bi-monthly
  Aug-1957 – Feb-1958: quarterly

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Smashing Detective Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 11?

British reprint edition of Smashing Detective Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1952:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: #2, #3, any after #11)

Publishers:   Hermitage Publications / Thorpe & Porter
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   100pp
Sources:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Smashing Novels Magazine

Total Issues: 4+7?=11?

Issues & Index Sources

May-1936 – Nov-1936:	Pulp Magazine Index 1
	Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)

Feb-1937 – Dec-1939, as Adventure Novels and Short Stories:	Pulp Magazine Index 1	(Missing: Feb-1937; Apr-1938)
	Adventure Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Feb-1937; Apr-1938)

Publishers

Columbia Magazines

Editors

Cliff Campbell

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

15c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

May-1936 – Nov-1936: bi-monthly
Feb-1937 – Dec-1939: irregular

Sources

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



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Smashing Western

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1936 – Feb-1942?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Chesterfield
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Smashing Western Stories

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Publishers: Duchess Publishing
Sources: The Pulpster #11, 2001

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Smash Stories

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1941 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

The Smith

see under Pulpsmith

Smith's Magazine

Total Issues: 203

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1905 – Feb-1922:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

#merges with Love Story Magazine

Publishers

Street & Smith

Editors

Theodore Dreiser

Formats

standard; became a pulp circa 1919

Frequency

monthly

Sources

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



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Smith's Weekly

see under Magazine of Short Stories

Smokehouse

Companion magazine to Captain Billy's Whiz Bang.

Issues & Index Sources: 1926 – ?

Publishers: Fawcett Publications

Snake Nation Review

Total Issues: 15 (to Dec-2002)

Regional journal of fiction, poetry, essays. Circulation 2,000.

Issues & Index Sources: Fall 1989 – present

Publishers:   110 #2 West Force Street, Valdosta, GA 31601 (in 1998 - 2002)
Website:   www.snakenationpress.org/
Editors:   Robert George (in 1998 - 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   100pp
Frequency:   thrice yearly at outset, now quarterly
Sources:   O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

Snap

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: 1950?:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers: Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Pagecounts: 36pp

Snapdragon

Published "There Was a Man Dwelt By a Churchyard" by M. R. James, 6 Sep-1924.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1924

Snappy Magazine

Issues & Index Sources

1929 – Apr-1938?:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  1929 – Nov-1932: Lowell Publications Inc.
  Dec-1932 – 1934: Merwil Publishing:
  1934 – 1938: D.M. Publishing

Editors

Virgina O'Day, Alexander Samalman

Formats

bedsheet

Prices

25c

Frequency

monthly

Sources

Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps



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Snappy (UK)

Total Issues: 1

A slender publication, featuring six to eight racey short stories, interspersed with black and white nude or scantily-clad pin-up, purporting to be a US pulp magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950

Publishers: Teal Publications
Pagecounts: 36pp