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True Gang Life [v6 #4, September 1936] (Associated Authors, 15¢, 96pp, large pulp, cover by W. Darr)
Year of publication not listed anywhere on magazine but believed to be 1936.
Details supplied by Steve Miller.

4 · Gangs of New York · [uncredited] · ia

6 · The Hijackers [Jim Grant] · Ralph Milne Farley · ss

22 · Funeral Guns · Raymond A. Palmer & Lawrence A. Keating · nv

54 · Mark of Cain · Grant Milton · ss

62 · Killers Cul de Sac · G. M. Sassaman · ss

66 · Clean-Up · Mark Turrell Pattie · ss

73 · Country Jake · Mont Hurst · ss

75 · Hot Seat · V. S. Summers · ss

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 5, November 1936] (Associated Authors, Inc., 15¢, large pulp, cover by Walter Darr)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

4 · Twenty-Five Years a Jailbird [Part 1 of 3] · Billy (The Key Man) Short; as told to Grant M. Sassaman · bg

24 · Morgano’s Match · Lowell Heywoodedge · ss

34 · The Toad’s Stool · Cliff Everard · na; given as by Clif Everard.

42 · Steel Fingers · Charles S. Newman · ss

51 · Soft Touch · W. Clyde Young · ss

54 · Death Assayer · Edward J. Donovan · ss

62 · Ex-Copper · Ernest Brent · ss

74 · Diamonds Spell Death · Crosby Holden · ss

82 · The Master Mind · Milton Grant · ss

84 · Wanted Public Enemies · [uncredited] · ms

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 6, January 1937] (Associated Authors, Inc., 15¢, large pulp, cover by Walter Darr)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

6 · Twenty-Five Years a Jailbird [Part 2 of 3] · Billy (The Key Man) Short; as told to Grant M. Sassaman · bg

23 · Five Grand for Eddie · R. D. Barrett · ss

30 · Rats Die Hard · Ed Earl Repp · ss

46 · Muscle Man · Frank Gruber · ss

56 · Professional Act · Robert Martin · ss

63 · Stir Bugs · David Roberts · ss

70 · It Pays to Be Blind · Roger Torrey · ss

85 · Mixed Drinks · Orson Borden · ss

90 · Wanted Public Enemies · [uncredited] · ms

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 7, March 1937] (Associated Authors, Inc., 15¢, large pulp, cover by Walter Darr)

6 · The Cleanup Kid · Alexander Faust · ss

15 · Death Music · Tom B. Stone · ss

22 · Twenty-Five Years a Jailbird [Part 3 of 3] · Billy (The Key Man) Short; as told to Grant M. Sassaman · bg

40 · Dog Eat Dog · Edward J. Donovan · ss

46 · Dumb Copper · James H. Dudley · ss

56 · Horse’s Gat · Andrew I. Albert · ss

62 · With the Tide · Ernest Brent · ss

68 · Killer’s Luck · Robert Leslie Bellem · ss

71 · Easy Money · Edward Classen · ss

77 · Comeback Justice · Edward Bayer · ss

83 · Unlucky Stiff · Hobart Ellsworth · ss

86 · Poison · David Roberts · ss

88 · Specialty · Milton Grant · ss

90 · Wanted Public Enemies · [uncredited] · ms

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 8, June 1937] (15¢, large pulp)

· Gangs of New York · Sam Caufman · ct

· Rogue’s Rendezvous · Robert Barrett · ss

· Murder Dope · James Worthington · ss

· Marked for Killing · Edgar H. Case · ss

· Blackmail’s an Ugly Word [Dal Prentice] · Roger Torrey · nv Black Mask October 1933

· No Alibi · Crosby G. Holden · ss

· Bullet Bait · William G. Bogart · ss

· Kill That Strikebreaker · Ben Flesher · ss

· Born to Be Hanged · Robert Leslie Bellem · ss

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 9, August 1937] (Associated Authors Inc., 15¢, large pulp, cover by Walter Darr)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

4 · The Challenge · Andrew I. Albert · nv

27 · Suckers Are Where You Find Them · Ben Flesher · ss

32 · Protection Plus · Roger Torrey · ss

46 · The Deadly Monk’s Hood · Daman C. Fenwick · ss

53 · Happy Birthday · E. G. Wheeler · vi

55 · Trouble on the Way Home · James Worthington · ss

62 · A Ticket for Murder · Donald C. Northwood · ss

70 · Morgue Bound · Grayson Fable · ss

75 · Poor Sap · Perry Wood · vi

77 · Twenty Grand · Dick Ford · ss

83 · A Soft-Boiled Yegg · A. L. Kimball · ss

90 · Wanted Public Enemies · [uncredited] · ms

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 10, October 1937] (15¢, large pulp, cover by W. Darr)

· Rocky’s Road Through Hell · Don Allison · ss

· Stir Shadows · R. D. Barrett · ss

· Acid Test · Omar Gwinn · ss

· Death Always Wins · Denslow M. Dade · ss

· Air-Tight Racket · Grover Brinkman · ss

· Queenie Rides Again · John Fredericks · ss

· Tiger Odds · Charles Molyneux Brown · ss

· False Reprieve · James H. Dudley · ss

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 11, December 1937] (Combined Publications, Inc., 96pp, large pulp, cover by W. Darr)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

4 · From Alcohol to Alcatraz [Part 1 of ?] · Chopper Nitti · ar

26 · Tiger Bait · W. K. Boone · ss

34 · Vengeance Trail · Davis Dresser · ss

40 · Killer at Large · Crosby G. Holden · ss

49 · Miser Investigations · Ben Flesher · ss

56 · G-Heat · John Scott Douglas · ss

65 · Riot Call · Bill Kruger · ss

71 · His Own Medicine · W. A. Billings · ss

76 · Fatal Likeness · Helen & Frank Rippetoe · ss

78 · Rat Trap · Junia Caille · ss

81 · A Squealer Passes · Grayson Fable · ss

88 · Wanted Public Enemies · [uncredited] · ms

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 12, March 1938] (Combined Publications, Inc., 15¢, large pulp)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

6 · From Alcohol to Alcatraz [Part 2 of ?] · Chopper Nitti · ar

27 · Heat Snatch · Crosby Holden · ss

36 · Hot Short Holocaust · Elenny Trade · ss

46 · The Devil’s Bath · Charles McCray & Frank Young · ss

54 · Walking Bait · Charles Molyneux Brown · ss

61 · A Double Frame · W. Clyde Young · ss

67 · Four-Bit Piece · Herbert E. Smith · ss

True Gang Life [Vol. II No. 13, June 1938] (Associated Authors, Inc., 15¢, large pulp, cover by Walter Darr)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

6 · Off the Record · Charles Verde · na

25 · Headed for Hell · Larry Sternig · ss

30 · Arson Ace · Jo Henry · ss

38 · Iron-Man · Robert Martin · ss

42 · Alcohol to Alcatraz · [uncredited] · ar

True Gangster Stories (1939)
--- see under Double-Action Gang Magazine.

True Gangster Stories (1941)
Despite the title True Gangster Stories was mainly fiction. It had two separate short runs, each beginning with Vol. 1 No. 1, even though the title had previously been used for the final issue of Double-Action Gang Magazine.

Publishers:

Columbia Publications, Inc.; 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, MA: True Gangster Stories.

True Gangster Stories [Vol. I No. 1, February 1941] (15¢, pulp)

· Shyster’s Swan Song · [uncredited] · ss

· Twas the Voice of the Lobster · Anthony Rud · ss

· The Beast of Delaware Avenue · [uncredited] · ss

· Quick with a Rod · David Goodis, uncredited · ss

· Never Kill a Cop · Fred R. Miller, uncredited · ss

· Death Is My Feud · [uncredited] · ss

· My Pal—The Trigger · Ross Russell, uncredited · ss

True Gangster Stories [Vol. I No. 2, July 1941] (15¢, 112pp, pulp)

10 · The Exploding Men [Jigger Masters] · Anthony Rud · ss

22 · Too Many Mistakes · Aaron G. Elgin, uncredited · ss

37 · Opportunity Guy · Simpson Selfredge, uncredited · ss

44 · The Laughing Trap · David Goodis · ss

55 · Legions of the Insane · Rolland Lynch · ss

64 · Kill a Man Please · Norton Franks, uncredited · ss

74 · Duchess Drinks a Toast to Murder · [uncredited] · ar

86 · Spiderweb of Death · Leo Hoban · ss; given as by Leon Hoban.

95 · Mangles, G-Man on Probation · Frank Airth · ss

104 · Diamond Dodges · [uncredited] · ar

True Gangster Stories [Vol. I No. 1, February 1942] (Columbia Publications, Inc., 15¢, pulp)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

10 · Murder Trail of the Marauding Bucks · Craig Carleton Scott · ss

21 · Carves Career with Razor · Eric Rober · ms

22 · The Fatal Furs [Jigger Masters] · Anthony Rud · ss

34 · I’ll Kill Him Tonight · Paul Selonke · ss

41 · Tiger Skin · Mat Rand · vi

43 · Cobwebs of Mystery · Cliff Campbell · ss

46 · Red Riddle of the Flaming Corpse · Stephen Manson · ss

55 · The Ruby Runs Red · T. W. Ford · nv

79 · Collegiate Crook · Roy Giles · ss

84 · The Live Corpse · Zachary Strong · ms

87 · Headstone for a Heel · Hugh B. Cave · ss

True Gangster Stories [Vol. I No. 2, April 1942] (Columbia Publications, Inc., 15¢, 112pp, pulp)

10 · The Key to Murder · Bud Martin · ts

20 · Three Hundred Miles of Blood and Bullets · J. Hoyt Cummings · ts

30 · The Cave of Death · James Denson Sayers · nv The Underworld Magazine December 1933

49 · Mark Ten Suie and the Love Crazed Millionaire · Hollis B. Fultz · ts

56 · The Worm Has Fangs · James Denson Sayers · ss The Underworld Magazine October 1933

65 · Yellow-Red Sunrise [Jigger Masters] · Anthony Rud · ss

75 · Birth of a Criminal · Leo Hoban · ss

81 · Dead Men Can’t Talk · J. Wilson · ss

94 · Death During Bird Song · Earl W. Scott · ss

104 · Crypt of Horror · Wilbur S. Peacock · ss

True Gangster Stories [Vol. I No. 3, June 1942] (15¢, pulp)

· Ghost Hotel [Jigger Masters] · Anthony Rud · ss

· Monahan Meets Science · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss

· Hell on Wheels · Frank Kerr · ss

· One Determined Cop · Glenn H. Wichman · ss

· Death, Deal Me In · George E. Clark · ss

· This Way to Death · Hugh B. Cave · ss

· Kill Ride for Two · Dave Goodis · ss

· Every Man to His Trade · Henry J. Carr · ss

True Gangster Stories [Vol. I No. 4, August 1942] (15¢, pulp)

· Triple Murder on the High Seas · Hollis B. Fultz · ss

· Death Rides a Starying Taxi · Allen Quinn · ss

· Crime Cure · Calvin L. Boswell · ss

· Short Cut to Murder · Earl W. Scott · ss

· I’ll Kill You, Copper · Wilbur S. Peacock · ss

· The Dentist Deals in Death · Charles A. Pratt · ss

· The Blight from Baghdad · Anthony Rud · ss

· Scotch and Strawberry · Linnell Jones · ss

· The Double Cross · Stephen J. Lynch · ss

· Corpse Call · Richard W. Sprang · ss

· A Knife in Your Back · Dave Goodis · ss

· When Your Luck Runs Out · Gary James · ss

True Gangster Stories (UK) (1939)
British reprint edition of True Gangster Stories.

Publishers:

Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.; 18 Bride Lane, London EC4: True Gangster Stories (UK).

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