Short-lived companion magazine to Saucy Stories and Saucy Movie Tales.
Short-lived digest featuring "three complete new novels" per issue.
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Short-lived companion to Scarlet Adventuress, Scarlet Confessions and True Gang Life,
focussing on the sleazier side of crime. The first two issues were entitled Scarlet Gang Stories
and the last three Scarlet Gang Smashers.
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British reprint edition of Scarlet Gang Smashers.
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A detective magazine with emphasis on the use of science to solve
crimes. About half the stories contain sufficiently exaggerated science
to be classed as SF. Title was changed to Amazing Detective Tales
after the sixth issue. The December 1930 Author & Journalist announced
that the title had been purchased by Fiction Publishers, run by Wallace Bamber
and the magazine was relaunched as Amazing Detective Stories in February 1931,
though only five more issues are known, folding in August 1931.
| 1929 |
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| 1930 |
v1 #1
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v1 #2
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v1 #3
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v1 #4
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v1 #5
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v1 #6
Jun |
v1 #7
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v1 #8
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v1 #9
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v1 #10
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v2 #2
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v2 #3
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One-off companion magazine to Screen Cowboy Stories and Screen Romances.
Published shortly after the demise of a very similar magazine, Tightrope, from the same
publisher, 77 Sunset Strip also hoped to gain from the publicity of a popular television
series of the same name. The pulp size and format was an anachronism and, despite the
better-than-average run of contemporary crime-adventure stories, the magazine folded after
a single issue.
| 1960 |
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Published as a companion title to the Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine,
the Shell Scott Mystery Magazine also featured a novella about its
eponymous detective, in this case created by Richard S. Prather. In the
face of fierce competition it only lasted for nine issues.
| 1966 |
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v1 #1
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v1 #2
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v1 #3
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v1 #4
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v1 #5
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v1 #6
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v2 #1
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Irregular crime magazine featuring a blend of fiction and non-fiction
about Sherlock Holmes (including Conan Doyle reprints) and unrelated
stories.
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Short-lived pulp magazine concentrating on off-trail weird-mystery stories.
| 1948 |
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Companion to Keyhole Mystery, this version of Shock only lasted for
three issues and reprinted classic stories from authors like Theodore
Sturgeon, Henry Kuttner and Jack London. Subsequently resurrected as
Shock Mystery Tales.
| 1960 |
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Bibliographically a continuation of Shock--The Magazine of Terrifying
Tales, this was a weird-menace companion to Web Terror
Stories rather than a supernatural weird fiction magazine.
| 1961 |
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| 1962 |
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| 1963 |
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Published "in cooperation with the Mystery Writers of America, Inc.",
Sleuth Mystery Magazine provided light-hearted, crime-adventure
vignettes by well-known writers, in much the same style as Alfred
Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. It folded after only two issues, possibly
because of distribution problems.
| 1958 |
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Short-lived risque companion to Snappy/Sizzling Romances and similar titles.
Titled Sizzling Detective Mysteries from July 1935 on.
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Following the initial success of Spicy Detective Stories the
publishers attempted to reserve the "Spicy" adjective for themselves by
producing ashcan issues for two proposed companion titles, Spicy
Mystery Stories and Spicy Adventure Stories.
Simultaneously, the same publishers (Harry Donenfeld & Frank Armer)
produced three more ashcan issues, for a parallel line of "Snappy"
titles. Each of these issues was 12 pages long and was dated July 1934.
The three Snappies never did achieve real publication but, for reasons
unknown, a second set of ashcan issues was prepared and copyrighted.
They were a bit more substantial than the first issues (36 pages) and
were all dated May 1935.
| 1934 |
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| 1935 |
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Following the initial success of Spicy Detective Stories the
publishers attempted to reserve the "Spicy" adjective for themselves by
producing ashcan issues for two proposed companion titles, Spicy
Mystery Stories and Spicy Adventure Stories.
Simultaneously, the same publishers (Harry Donenfeld & Frank Armer)
produced three more ashcan issues, for a parallel line of "Snappy"
titles. Each of these issues was 12 pages long and was dated July 1934.
The three Snappies never did achieve real publication but, for reasons
unknown, a second set of ashcan issues was prepared and copyrighted.
They were a bit more substantial than the first issues (36 pages) and
were all dated May 1935.
| 1934 |
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One of several gangster pulps published by Harold B. Hersey. However, by the time it was
published, in 1931, public interest in gangsters was fading and it only lasted for 4 issues.
| 1931 |
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Launched by the then editor of Detective Fiction Weekly, Special Detective featured a blend of fiction (mainly
by authors familiar from Detective Fiction Weekly) and factual articles. After the third issue the former
were phased out and the magazine continued as a true crime magazine.
| 1937 |
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Title changed from True Love Affairs Magazine
Continued after June 1930 as a true crime magazine.
| 1929 |
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| 1930 |
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An attempt to cash in on the popularity of the "shudder pulps",
Startling Mystery Magazine used reprint covers and paid authors only half
the then-going rate. Perhaps as a result it folded after only two issues,
though a third issue was planned.
| 1940 |
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British reprint edition of Startling Mystery Magazine. There was probably
only one issue which reprinted stories from the first issue of the
American edition.
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An unusual hybrid pulp featuring undistinguished detective and
western stories. The magazine never really found an audience and
folded after 5 issues.
| 1940 |
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| 1941 |
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Despite the title, this is actually a British reprint edition of Detective Tales. Other issues may exist.
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Short-lived magazine from Aaron Wyn's Magazine Publishers featuring
rather standard fare for the period.
| 1937 |
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Despite the title this typically did not reprint stories from
Sure-Fire Detective Magazine but from other US detective magazines.
Other issues may exist.
| 1941 |
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v1 #4
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v1 #5
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v1 #6
Nov |
v1 #7
Dec |
| 1942 |
v2 #1
Jan |
v2 #2
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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.
| 1955 |
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| 1956 |
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Short-run magazine that published a series of original stories by
the publisher's in-house writers ranging from gangster yarns to
conventional tales of detection - often with a hint of science fiction
or the supernatural.
| 1954 |
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One-shot mystery/detection magazine with the tagline "It Fits Your Pocket", Replaced the
following month by The Pocket Magazine (with the same tagline), which also only lasted
for one issue.
| 1930 |
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