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Startling Detective Adventures: (about)

Numbering continued from True Love Affairs Magazine. Continued as a true-crime magazine after June 1930.

— Startling Detective Adventures

Publishers: Fawcett Publications, Inc.; Broadway & Eleventh Streets, Louisville, KY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1929

v4 #19
Dec

1930
v4 #20
Jan v4 #21
Feb
v4 #22
Mar
v4 #23
Apr
v4 #24
May
v4 #25
Jun v5 #26
Jul

1931

v7 #41
Dec

— Startling Detective

Title changed from Startling Detective Adventures.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1944
v32 #187
Feb

1951

v42 #248
Nov

Startling Mystery Magazine (about)

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.

Publishers: Fictioneers, Inc.; 2256 Grove Street, Chicago, IL.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1940

v1 #1
Feb

v1 #2
Apr
v1 #3
Jun (unpublished)

Startling Mystery (UK) (about)

British reprint edition of Startling Mystery Magazine. There was probably only one issue which reprinted stories from the first issue of the American edition.

Publishers: Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd.; 14 Lever Street, Manchester 1.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

194?
(lates?)

Startling Mystery Stories (about)

Startling Mystery Stories specialised in stories where either the detective or villain had supernatural powers or their scientific equivalent. Despite a steadily growing circulation during its 18 issues it was killed in 1971 by increasing costs and distribution problems.

Publishers: Health Knowledge, Inc.; New York.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1966

v1 #1
#1
Summer

v1 #2
#2
Fall

v1 #3
#3
Winter ’66/’67

1967

v1 #4
#4
Spring

v1 #5
#5
Summer

v1 #6
#6
Fall

v2 #1
#7
Winter ’67/’68

1968

v2 #2
#8
Spring

v2 #3
#9
Summer

v2 #4
#10
Fall

v2 #5
#11
Winter ’68/’69

1969

v2 #6
#12
Spring

v3 #1
#13
Summer

v3 #2
#14
Winter

1970

v3 #3
#15
Spring

v3 #4
#16
Summer

v3 #5
#17
Fall

1971

v3 #6
#18
Mar

Stirring Detective and Western Stories (about)

An unusual hybrid pulp featuring undistinguished detective and western stories. The magazine never really found an audience and folded after 5 issues.

Publishers: Albing Publications; 19 East 48th Street, New York, NY.

Stirring Detective Stories (UK) (about)

British reprint edition of Detective Tales. Number of issues published not known.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
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1949
[X]

Story Digest Magazine: (about)

Four separate single-author digest magazines issued simultaneously.

— Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Story Digest Magazine

Publishers: Western Publishing Co., Inc.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1970

v1 #1
Jun

— Dark Shadows Story Digest Magazine

A tie-in to the popular TV soap opera.

Publishers: Western Publishing Co., Inc.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1970

v1 #1
Jun

— Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Story Digest Magazine

Subtitled “True Ghost Stories,” it was a collection of supposedly factual anecdotes about weird or supernatural happenings. Often sought by collectors to complete their set of Story Digest Magazine, but otherwise of little interest.

— Tarzan of the Apes Story Digest Magazine

Publishers: Western Publishing Co., Inc.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1970

v1 #1
Jun

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