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Undercover Detective

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Short-lived magazine featuring a gripping action novel about "Conway Clark, International Undercover Ace" in each issue, as well as several other short stories and novelettes.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1938 – Apr-1939:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 2

Publishers:   Double-Action Magazines, Inc. (Columbia Publications)
Editors:   Cliff Campbell
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   112pp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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Under Fire

Country: US
Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1928 – Jun-1929: Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers:   Magazine Publishers
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Underland Arcana

Country: US
Total Issues: 11 (as at Apr-2024)

A quarterly fiction magazine that wanders off to points unexplored on any map. It is influenced by the tarot, both in symbolism and intent.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 2021 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after #11, Fall 2023)

Website:   www.underlandarcana.com
Publishers:   Underland Press
Editors:   Mark Teppo



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Under Magellanic Clouds

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 5?

Issues & Index Sources:  Summer/Autumn 1997 – 1999: Science Fiction Index (Missing: all issues)

Publishers:   Under Magellanic Clouds, Upper Mongogarie, N.S.W.
Editors:   Marijke Fitzgerald

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Under the Bed

Country: US

Online fantasy magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: 2012 – Feb-2017?

Publishers: eFiction Publishing
Editors: Doug Lance

Under the Gas Light

Country: US
Total Issues: 5

Issues & Index Sources:  1878

Publishers:   Gaslight Pub.
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The Underworld

Country: US
Total Issues: 20+66+4=90

Despite the title, The Underworld featured better than average action crime stories, mainly by authors unknown today, most initially reprinted from other Munsey titles. Launched in 1927 it ran for 93 issues under a variety of title variations before folding in 1935.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1927 – Aug-1928:

Crime Fiction Index

Dec-1928 – Mar-1935, as The Underworld Magazine:

Crime Fiction Index

Apr-1935 – Jul-1935, as The Underworld Detective:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

  May-1927 – Aug-1928: J. Thomas Wood
  Dec-1928 – Sep-1929: Magazine Publishers, Inc. (Harold Hersey)
  Oct-1929 – Jul-1935: Carwood Publishing (Tom Wood), briefly as

Editors

  May-1927 – Aug-1928: Tom Chadburn
  Dec-1928 – Sep-1929: Harold Hersey
  Oct-1929 – Dec-1930: Tom Chadburn
  Jan-1931 – Jan-1932: A.A. Wyn
  Feb-1932 – Jul-1935: Tom Wood

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

Jan-1927 – Jul-1927: 25c
Aug-1927 – Jul-1935: 15c

Pagecounts

  May-1927 – Jul-1927: 128pp
  Aug-1927 – Mar-1928: 96pp
  Apr-1928 – Jan-1930: 112pp
  Feb-1930 – Jul-1935: 128pp

Frequency

  Jan-1927 – Sep-1927: monthly
  5-Oct-1927 – 20-Jan-1928: twice monthly (5th and 20th)
  Feb-1928 – Jul-1935: mostly monthly

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




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The Underworld [1930] (UK)

Country: UK

British reprint edition of The Underworld.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s?:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Mentioned in: Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

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Underworld [1951] (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2?

Short-lived magazine with a mix of reprints from US pulps and original stories.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1951 – Spring 1952?:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   S.D. Frances
Editors:   Maurice Read
Prices:   2/-
Pagecounts:   64pp


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The Underworld Detective [1930s]

see under The Underworld

The Underworld Detective [1950s]

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1949 – ?

Publishers: World at War Publishing Co., 19 W. 44th St., New York, NY., 55 Morton St., New York, NY
Frequency: nine times a year

Underworld Love Stories

see under Underworld Romances

The Underworld Magazine

see under The Underworld

Underworld Romances

Country: US
Total Issues: 3+1=4

Short-lived attempt to merge the gang and love pulp genres.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1931 – Jan-1932:

Crime Fiction Index

Feb-1932, as Underworld Love Stories:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

Popular Publications

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

monthly

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



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Underworlds

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Underworlds was launched as a tri-annual paperback magazine that sought "to create a bridge between crime fiction (especially, but not necessarily exclusively, of the noir school) and horror fiction". It folded after only two issues in two years.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-2002 – Dec-2004:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Underworlds Magazine, Ridgewood, NY
Editors:   Thomas Deja (#1), Sean Wallace (#2)
Formats:   7½" x 9" spiral-bound
Prices:   $5.99
Pagecounts:   108pp


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Underworld Stories

Country: Australia

Another thin Australian digest, this one seemingly containing only reprint stories Subtitled "incorporating Crime Story Magazine" even though Crime Story Magazine was being published at the same time.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: all except v5 #1)

Publishers: Blue Diamond Publishing Company


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Undinal Songs

Country: US

Fanzine labelled "a magazine of necrophilia and vampirism" which specialised in "the portrayal of death as a lover" and contained a mixture of short stories and poems.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1980s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Leilah Wendell, Oakdale, New York
Editors: Leilah Wendell

Undine Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1900 – Jun-1901: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Street & Smith, New York
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   250
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Unearth

Country: US
Total Issues: 8

A small press SF magazine devoted to beginning writers.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1977 – Winter 1979:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   Unearth Publications, Boston
Editors:   Jonathan Ostrowsky-Lantz and John M. Landsberg
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $1.00 (but varied)
Pagecounts:   128pp (but varied)
Frequency:   quarterly
Related Sites:   Science Fiction Encyclopedia



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