Magazine Data File

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Magazine Issues

True Gangster Stories [1939]

see also under Double-Action Gang Magazine

True Gangster Stories (UK) [1939]

Reprints the single (October 1939) issue of True Gangster Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1939:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

(Missing: all except Oct-1939)

Publishers: Atlas Publishing & Distributing
Formats: standard pulp

Issue Checklist

True Gangster Stories (UK) [1942]

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1942:

Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan
Pagecounts: 48pp


Issue Checklist

True Homicide Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1955 – ?

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

True Justice Stories

Total Issues: 1

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1950:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers: Hamilton & Co
Prices: 1/-

True-Life Coincidences

Total Issues: 4

First two issues contain fiction, whilst the last two contain a mixture of mostly copyright reserved non-fiction (some illustrated by photos) reprinted from the USA and fiction. The December 1952 date derives from the British Library date stamp and it is presumed that all four issues were registered at once but had been published earlier.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1952? – #4, 1952?:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   32pp

True-Life Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1941 – ?

Publishers: Volitant Publications, 103 Park Ave., New York, NY, and 105 E. 35th St., New York, NY
Frequency: monthly

True Life Stories

Total Issues: 1

Possibly non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950

Publishers: Hamilton & Co

True Love (UK) [1949]

Not seen, but advertised in an issue of Real FBI Detective Case Stories. May be the same as True Love Stories from The City Libraries.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1949

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

True Love Affairs

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Jan/Feb-1940:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Frank A. Munsey
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

True Love Affairs Magazine

Total Issues: ?+7=? (before becoming non-fiction)

Continued as a true-crime magazine after Jun-1930.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1928 – ?-1928

?-1928 – ?, as Love Affairs

Dec-1929 – Jun-1930, as Startling Detective Adventures:	Cook/Miller	(Missing: Jan-1930)
	Crime Fiction Index (in progress)	(Missing: Jan-1930)

Publishers

Fawcett Publications

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

monthly?

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE


Issue Checklist

True Love and Romance

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Macfadden Publications
Editors:   Hilda Wright (in 1943)
Prices:   10c (in 1943)
Pagecounts:   72pp (in 1943)
Frequency:   monthly

True Love Magazine

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1937

Publishers:   Popular
Formats:   digest
Sources:   UltGuide

True Love Series

"Contains one long novel, 22,000 - 25,000 words... sensational, with strong love interest".

Issues & Index Sources: 1931 – ?

Publishers: Wm. Stevens Ltd, 1 Crane Court, Fleet St., London EC4
Frequency: twice-monthly

True Love Stories

Total Issues: 1

Announced as "forthcoming" in #1 of Round-Up Magazine, but might not actually have appeared. May be the same as True Love from the Magazine Fiction Group.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

(possibly phantom)

Publishers: The City Libraries, 337 Victoria Road, Glasgow
Prices: 1/-

True Love Stories [1928]

True Magazine

"Incorporating Sincerely... first-person complete stories, 2000 - 10,000; also first-person serials".

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Publishers:   C. Arthur Pearson Ltd (Newnes), Tower House, Southampton St., London WC2
Editors:   Miss P. Lamburn (in 1962)
Frequency:   monthly

True Marriage Stories

See under Marriage Stories