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True Mystic Crimes

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True Mystic Science

Total Issues: 8

True Mystic Science contained articles on astrology, numerology, graphology, mediums, prophecies, famous crimes and unexplained events and various psychic phenomena. R.T.M. Scott was a frequent contributor, Talbot Mundy had an article on Mystic India in the second issue and Otis Adelbert Kline had articles in the second and fifth issues. Arthur J. Burks appeared in the eighth.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1938 – Jul-1939: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   The Continental News, Inc.
Formats:   9 x 12 inches
Prices:   25c
Frequency:   monthly (with 1 missed month)
Sources:   UltGuide
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True Police Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources

  1936 – ?

Publishers

  in 1930s: Country Press Inc., 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY, and Broadway and 11th, Louisville, KY
  in 1940s: Fawcett Publications, Fawcett Place, Greenwich, CT, and 22 W Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  CookMDE

True Police Yearbook

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953

True Prize-Winning War Stories

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1963
Publishers:   Macfadden-Bartell
Sources:   MansWorld

True Romances

Macfadden; downmarket slick

Issues & Index Sources:  1923 – ?

True Romances & True Story

Perhaps UK editions of the US magazines of the same titles (?); "first-person true stories with strong love interest... 7000 - 8000 words".

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Publishers:   8-10 Temple Ave., London EC4
Editors:   Mrs J. M. Hadley (in 1962)
Frequency:   monthly

True Society Whipping Stories

Total Issues: 9?

Flagellation magazine containing various stories about corporal punishment and a correspondence section on the same. Despite being published in France, this was targeted at a British audience.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s
Publishers:   Les Beaux Oeuvres, Establissement H. P., 43 Chaussee d'Antin, Paris
Prices:   2/6d

True Spy and War Stories

Total Issues: 2+

Reprints from earlier magazines.

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1966 – Feb-1967
Publishers:   Jalart House
Sources:   MansWorld

True-Story

The first of the so-called "confessions" magazines, hugely successful and a trail-blazer in its own downmarket way. Stories were purportedly true and many are anecdotal experiences; but by the mid-1920s many more had become staff-written or were professional submissions. Most were by Macfadden's stable of writers, e.g. Fulton Oursler, Lyon Mearson.

Issues & Index Sources

  May-1919 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Bernarr Macfadden

Editors

  1919 – 1926: John Brennan
  1926 – 1942: Willian Jordan Rapp

Formats

  bedsheet on quality paper

Frequency

  monthly
 

True Story Magazine

UK edition of the US magazine but with some British material; stories uncredited.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1922 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Hutchinson's (The Argus Press in 1949)
Formats:   standard (better quality paper with photos)
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   160pp (48pp in 1949)
Frequency:   monthly

True Strange Stories [1929]

Total Issues: 8

The November issue says Strange Stories on the cover but says True Strange Stories on the spine and contents page.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1929 – Nov-1929: Miller/Contento
Publishers:   True Strange Stories Publishing Co., Inc. (Macfadden)
Editors:   Walter Gibson, though identified at Webster Scofield
Formats:   large format
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
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True Strange (Stories) [1956]

True Strange may be a revival of True Weird. They share the same publisher and followed one upon another. True Strange also reprinted material from True Weird. True Strange was a large magazine subtitled "incredible...weird... and factual." There were a total of seven issues with one short story in four of the issues.

Other authors with material that may be of interest are: Arthur J. Burks (5-6/57); M.E. Counselman (10/56, 3/57, 10/57, 2/58); Jules De Grandon (3/57); Theophile Gautier (3/57); R. DeWitt Miller (8/57).

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1956 – Feb-1958: Miller/Contento

Publishers

  Weider Periodicals Inc., 16 Hopkins Ave., Jersey City, New Jersey

Editors

  Oct-1956 – Oct-1957: William R. Shelton
  Dec-1957 – Feb-1958: Allen Camelli

Sources

  UltGuide, MansWorld

True Supernatural Stories

Total Issues: 1

This magazine was assembled for trademark purposes and was never offered for sale to the general public.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1934: Miller/Contento
Formats:   bedsheet
Sources:   UltGuide

True Thrills

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1942
Publishers:   Country Press Inc., 1100 W. Broadway, Louisville, KY, and Broadway and 11th, Louisville, KY

True Twilight Tales

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  #1, 1963 – #2, 1964: Miller/Contento
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Publishers:   League Publications, Inc., New York.
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True War [1956]

Total Issues: 5+

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1956 – Jul-1958
Publishers:   Magnum Magazines
Sources:   MansWorld


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