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Magazine Issues

Smart Fiction

Country: UK
Total Issues: 614

Issues & Index Sources

1913 – 1924:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with Smart Novels

Frequency

weekly

Smart Love Stories

see under Ainslee's Smart Love Stories

Smart Novels

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3748

Each issue contained a lead novelette, in between the wars, also had a back-up serial, dropped during WW2 and seemingly never to return.

Issues & Index Sources

17-Sep-1894 – 15-Sep-1902, as The Duchess Novelette

22-Sep-1902 – 29-Aug-1966, as Smart Novels:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with Christian Novels

Publishers

  ?: E.J. Brett
  1902? – in 1930s: Shurey Publications
  in 1930s – ?: WIlliam Stevens

Editors

  ?: Charles Shurey
  1914 – 1933: Isabel Thorne [at least]
  late 1940s: William Stevens

Formats

digest

Prices

Pagecounts

64pp

Frequency

weekly

Smart Romance Stories

Country: Canada

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Union Publishing Company, Toronto
Formats:   Pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   32pp

The Smart Set

Country: US
Total Issues: 364

Brought sophistication to muck-raking. Authors include William Rose Benet, Frank Harris, Lord Dunsany, W.B. Yeats, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thorne Smith, Sinclair Lewis, James Branch Cabell, Dashiell Hammett, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, George Moore, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill, Gelett Burgess, Ben Hecht, Michael Arlen. Circulation peaked at around 22,000 in early 20s.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1900 – Jun-1924:

FictionMags Index

Jul-1924 – Mar-1930, as Smart Set:

FictionMags Index

Apr-1930 – Jul-1930, as The New Smart Set:

FictionMags Index

Publishers

  Mar-1900 – Mar-1911: Ess Ess Publishing Co., 1135 Broadway, New York
  Apr-1911 – Oct-1914: John Adams Thayer Corporation, 452 Fifth Avenue, New York
  Nov-1914 – May-1924: The Smart Set Co. Inc., 456 Fourth Avenue, New York
  Jun-1924 – Nov-1928: The Magus Magazine Corporation, 119 West 40th Street, New York
  Dec-1928 – Jul-1930: Magus Publishing Company, Inc., 221 West 57th Street, New York

Editors

  ?: Charles Hanson Towne & Arthur Grissom
  Jun-1913 – Jan-1914: Willard Huntington Wright
  Nov-1914 – Dec-1923: George Jean Nathan & H.L. Mencken
  Feb-1924 – May-1924: Morris Gilbert
  Jun-1924 – ?: George D'Utassey
  Nov-1927 – Nov-1928: William C. Lengel
  May-1929 – Jul-1930: Margaret E. Sangster

Formats

still a standard magazine in 1920, but became a big slick by 1925

Prices

initially 25c; 35c by Aug-1921

Frequency

monthly (except Oct/Nov-1900)

Related Sites

Wikipedia

Online Sources

Online Books



Issue Checklist

The Smart Set (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 290

Started as a reprint of the US magazine of the same name but in 1905, under the editorship of William James Thorold, it began adding photographs of leading British socialites and theatre personalities, cartoons, fashion columns, social notes, and, occasionally, English fiction and verse that did not find its way into the New York edition.

Always more heavily illustrated than its American parent and lacking the topical items in the New York edition and those with peculiarly American reference (all of the editorial departments and reviews, for instance, were omitted), the English Smart Set was really a distinctive periodical. Most of the magazine's American readers (and, indeed, the contributors themselves) remained blissfully unaware that there ever was such a thing as the London Smart Set and, to tell the truth, so did the vast majority of the British reading public. Even so, it prospered--in part because it had no need to wrestle with the problems that beset the parent journal (these were all solved before the material crossed the ocean), in part because, as a minor periodical with a very low 'overgead,' it was content with a small stake in the Fleet Street market.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1901 – Jun-1925:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with Standard Stories

Publishers

  May-1901 – Dec-1913: Ess Ess Publishing Company, 90-93 Fleet St., London EC
  Jan-1914 – Apr-1918: W.H. Dawson
  May-1918 – Nov-1922: Rolls House Publishing
  Dec-1922 – Sep-1923: J.W. Milne
  Oct-1923 – Jun-1925: Hutchinson

Editors

  1905 – 1911: William James Thorold
  1911 – 1915: H.J. Gillespie
  1915 – 1924: James W. Milne
  1924 – Jun-1925: Kitty Shannon

Prices

May-1901 – ?: 1/-

Pagecounts

May-1901 – ?: 160pp

Mentioned in: The Age of the Storytellers

Smash!

Country: US
Total Issues: 4?

Pinup magazine that published some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1961 – 1963?:

FictionMags Index

(partial issue only)

Publishers:   Smash Publications, 1157 West 25th Place, Los Angeles 7, CA
Editors:   Al. B. Clinton
Prices:   50c


Issue Checklist

Smash Detective Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1945 – ?

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



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Smash Detective-Crime Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Smashing Detective (Australia)

Country: 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


Issue Checklist

Smashing Detective Stories

Country: US
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: bimonthly
  Aug-1957 – Feb-1958: quarterly

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



Issue Checklist

Smashing Detective Stories (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 11?

British reprint edition of Smashing Detective Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1952:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #11)

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



Issue Checklist

Smashing Novels Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 4+7?=11?

Issues & Index Sources

May-1936 – Nov-1936:	Adventure Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Feb-1937, as Adventure Novels Magazine:

Adventure Fiction Index

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

Publishers

Chesterfield Publications (Columbia Publications)

Editors

Cliff Campbell

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

15c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

  May-1936 – Nov-1936: bimonthly
  Feb-1937 – Dec-1939: irregular

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Smashing Western

Country: US
Total Issues: 15

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1936 – Oct-1939: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Sep-1937; Aug-1938)

Publishers:   Chesterfield Publications (Columbia Publications)
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Smashing Western (Stories) (Canada)

Country: Canada

Issues & Index Sources:  1941 – 1942?: Western Fiction Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Duchess Printing & Publishing Co.
Editors:   William Brown-Forbes
Formats:   pulp
Pagecounts:   99pp
Mentioned in:   The Pulpster #11, 2001


Issue Checklist

Smash Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1941 – Dec-1941?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)


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The Smith

see under Pulpsmith