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True Adventure Tales

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  1937: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Fawcett Publications, Inc. Greenwich CT
Formats:   large pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   74pp


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True American Detective Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s

True Battles of World War II

Country: US
Total Issues: 12+

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1963 – Jun-1966?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Stanley Magazine Corp., 261 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10016
Editors:   Theodore S. Hecht
Formats:   US quarto
Prices:   50c
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   It's a Man's World



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True Blue [1898] (US)

Country: US
Total Issues: 50

Dime novel series containing stories of the Spanish-American War from the naval viewpoint and stories of Naval Academy life. Subtitled "A Weekly Devoted to the Stirring Adventures of Our Boys in Blue".

Issues & Index Sources: 14-May-1898 – 22-Apr-1899:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   Nos. 1-36: 10 x 6 7/8"; Nos. 37-50: 7¼ x 5"
Prices:   5c
Pagecounts:   Nos. 1-36: 32pp; Nos. 37-50: 64pp
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

True Blue [1904] (UK)

see under True Blue War Library

True Blue Library [1898]

Country: UK
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

#merges with True Blue War Library

Publishers

Aldine Publishing Co.

Prices

½d

Pagecounts

20pp

Frequency

weekly

True Blue Library [1900]

see under True Blue War Library

True Blue Library [1910]

Country: UK
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

Country: UK
Total Issues: 25+223+82=330

Merged with, and retitled as, True Blue Library in 1900 but retained the numbering of True Blue War Library.

Issues & Index Sources

5-Feb-1900 – 23-Jul-1900

30-Jul-1900 – Nov-1904, as True Blue Library

Nov-1904 – 30-May-1906, as True Blue

#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



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True Bootleg Crime Cases

Country: Canada

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: ?

Publishers: Norman Book Co.

True Cases of Scotland Yard

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1937 – ?

Mentioned in: Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

True Confessions

Country: US

Downmarket slick (imitating Macfadden's magazines)

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1922 – Jul-1925

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

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

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

Aug-1930 – ?, as True Confessions:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers

Fawcett Publications

Editors

Florence J. Schetty (in 1959)

Formats

quarto

Prices

25c (in 1959)

Frequency

monthly



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True Crime Magazine [1936]

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

True crime.

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

FictionMags Index

(Missing: any issues after Nov-1936)

Publishers:   Western Fiction Publishing, Co.
Editors:   Arthur Perles
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

True Crime [1943]

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1943 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Skye Publishing Co., 270 Park Ave., New York, NY, 60 W 46th St., New York, NY, and Louisville, KY
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   35c (in 1962)
Frequency:   bimonthly