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Sure-Fire Detective Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Short-lived magazine from Aaron Wyn's Magazine Publishers featuring rather standard fare for the period.

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1937 – Jun-1937: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 3
Publishers:   Magazine Publishers, Inc. (Ace Magazines)
Editors:   Harry Widmer
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Sure-Fire Detective Stories

see under Off Beat Detective Stories

Sure-Fire Screen Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1934 – Apr-1934: General Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Dell
Editors:   M.C. Kelly
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps

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Sure-Fire Western

Country: US
Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1936 – Jan-1939: Western Fiction Index
Publishers:   Periodical House, Inc. (Ace Magazines)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   started bimonthly but irregular
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western

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Sure-Shot Detective

Country: Canada

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1945 – ?
Publishers:   Duchess Printing & Publishing Co.

Surfer

Country: US

Surfing culture magazine that has published some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  1962 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   www.surfer.com
Publishers:   Motor Trend Group (in 2019)
Editors:   Todd Prodanovich (in 2019)
Related Sites:   Wikipedia

The Surprise

Country: UK
Total Issues: 89

Boy's illustrated story-paper.

Issues & Index Sources

  5-Mar-1932 – 11-Nov-1933: Story Paper Index (sample issues only)

#incorporated into The Bullseye

Publishers

  Amalgamated Press

Editors

  F.G. Cordwell; Philip Davis (Assistant Editor)

Pagecounts

  28pp

Frequency

  weekly

Surprise Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 100

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1910s: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   Surprise Library, 140 Cedar St., New York, NY
Formats:   7 x 4 7/8"
Prices:   not priced (15c)
Pagecounts:   200-250
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Surprise Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 204

Issues & Index Sources:  1889 – 1892: Dime Novel Bibliography (Missing: #101 #202, #203)
Publishers:   Hovendon Company, 17 and 19 Waverley Place, New York, NY
Formats:   7 x 5"
Pagecounts:   200 to 300
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Surprise Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 100

Issues & Index Sources:  1889: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, New York, NY
Formats:   7 x 4 5/8"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   250 to 400
Frequency:   tri-weekly and daily
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Surprising Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 49 (to Jan-2019)

Amateur online magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-2003 – present: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)
Website:   surprisingstories.thiels.us
Publishers:   Oort Cloud Publications, Indiana
Editors:   John Thiel

Surreal

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Surreal Magazine is a quarterly print magazine, featuring short fiction and flash fiction tales of the supernatural, horror and occult, poetry, artwork, author interviews, and reviews.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 2005 – Fall 2005: Science Fiction Index
Publishers:   Cavern Publishing Group, PO Box 1424, Salem, NH 03079
Editors:   Mike Miller
Prices:   $5.50
Frequency:   quarterly
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Surrender

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

A slender publication, featuring racey short stories, interspersed with black and white nude or scantily-clad pin-up, purporting to be a US pulp magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950

Suspect Detective Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

Suspect Detective Stories was a fairly standard crime digest featuring fast-action, contemporary, crime adventure stories. It never made a mark in the crowded marketplace for such fare and folded after 5 issues.

The issue numbering was continued by Infinity SF.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1955 – Oct-1956: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Royal Publications
Editors:   Larry Shaw
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   erratic
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
 
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Suspense [1946]

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

An attempt to cash in on the popular CBS radio mystery show of the same title.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1946 – Mar-1947: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Suspense Magazine, Los Angeles
Editors:   Leslie Charteris
Formats:   digest
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   112pp
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Suspense Magazine [1951]

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

A second attempt to cash in on the popular CBS radio mystery show of the same title, this version also ran for only four issues but included a wider range of material including a lot of science fiction.

There was a companion series of Suspense Novels that ran for 3 issues in 1951 publishing "Strange Pursuit" by N.R. DeMexico, "The Case of the Lonely Lovers" by Will Daemer and "Naked Villainy" by Carl G. Hodges.

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1951 – Winter 1952: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   Farrell Publishing, NY
Editors:   Theodore Irwin
Formats:   digest
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   144pp
Frequency:   quarterly
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia
Mentioned in:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Suspense (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 32

Created as a companion magazine to the British Argosy magazine, Suspense published many original stories by crime writers of the first rank. It lasted for 32 issues before being absorbed into its parent magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug-1958 – Apr-1961: Crime Fiction Index

#merges with The Argosy

Publishers

  Aug-1958 – Jul-1959: The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London E.C.4.
  Sep-1959 – Apr-1961: Fleetway Publications, Ltd., The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London E.C.4.

Formats

  Pocketbook

Prices

  2/-

Pagecounts

  160pp

Frequency

  monthly

Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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