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Triple Detective (Canada)    (about)

Canadian reprint edition of Triple Detective. Number of issues published not known.


Triple Detective Novels    (about)

British reprint edition of both Triple Detective and Five Detective Novels interleaved. The precise title seemed to vary from issue to issue.
Publishers: Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd.; 14 Lever Street, Manchester 1.

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195?
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True Gang Life    (about)

True Gang Life was another of the pulps that cashed in on the brief popularity of gangster stories. It is unclear how many issues were published.
Publishers: Associated Authors, Inc.; 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY; and later at 125 East 46th Street, New York 17, NY.

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1934










v1 #1
Nov


1935
v1 #2
Jan
v1 #3
Feb


v1 #4
Apr

v1 #5
May
v1 #6
Jun

v1 #7
Jul



v1 #8
Oct

v1 #9
Nov


1936

v1 #10
Feb


v6 #2
Apr


v6 #3
Jun



v6 #4
Sep


v2 #5
Nov


1937
v2 #6
Jan


v2 #7
Mar



v2 #8
Jun


v2 #9
Aug


v2 #10
Oct


v2 #11
Dec

1938


v2 #12
Mar



v2 #13
Jun








True Gangster Stories (1939)    (about)

--- see under Double-Action Gang Magazine.


True Gangster Stories (1941)    (about)

Despite the title True Gangster Stories was mainly fiction. It had two separate short runs, each beginning with Vol. 1 No. 1, even though the title had previously been used for the final issue of Double-Action Gang Magazine.
Publishers: Columbia Publications, Inc.; 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, MA.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1941

v1 #1
Feb





v1 #2
Jul






1942

v1 #1
Feb


v1 #2
Apr


v1 #3
Jun


v1 #4
Aug






True Gangster Stories (UK) (1939)    (about)

British reprint edition of True Gangster Stories.
Publishers: Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.; 18 Bride Lane, London EC4.

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1939








v2 #4
Oct




True Gangster Stories (UK) (1942)    (about)

British reprint edition of True Gangster Stories.
Publishers: Gerald G. Swan, Ltd.; 37-38-39 Burne Street, Marylebone, London NW1.

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1942
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Twelve Stories Detective Tales

Mike Cook, in Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, says this was a pulp magazine that commenced in March 1942, but provides no details of it and no copy has been located. It is believed to be a misreading of the cover of Detective Tales magazine, which frequently had “twelve stories” as a description above the title.


Two-Books Detective Magazine:

Initially reprinting “Two $2.00 Mystery Novels” as Two-Books Detective Magazine, the magazine changed slightly with the third issue to Two-Book Detective Magazine with a tagline of “Two Full-Length Mystery Novels”, each of which was original. After a couple of issues this expanded to “Four Full-Length Mystery Novels” which made nonsense of the title, so that was changed a few issues later to New Detective Magazine.

  —  Two-Books Detective Magazine

Publishers: Two-Books Magazines, Inc.; 80 Lafayette Street, New York, NY.

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1933





v1 #1
Summer



v1 #2
Autumn




  —  Two-Book Detective Magazine

Title changed from Two-Books Detective Magazine.
Publishers: Two-Books Magazines, Inc.; 80 Lafayette Street, New York, NY.

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1933











v1 #3
Dec/Jan ’34

1934

v1 #4
Feb/Mar



v1 #5
May


v1 #6
Jul


v1 #7
Sep


v1 #8
Nov


1935
v1 #9
Jan












  —  New Detective Magazine

Title changed from Two-Book Detective Magazine.
Publishers: Two-Books Magazines, Inc.; 80 Lafayette Street, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1935


v1 #10
Mar


v2 #1
May


v2 #2
Jul


v2 #3
Sep



v2 #4
Dec


Two-Book Detective Magazine (Canada):

Canadian reprint edition of Two-Book Detective Magazine/New Detective Magazine. Other issues probably exist.

  —  Two-Book Detective Magazine (Canada)

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Dec/Jan ’34

  —  New Detective Magazine (Canada)

Title changed from Two-Book Detective Magazine (Canada).

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1935








v2 #3
Sep






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