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SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES.
Wilmington, DE: Culture Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by Allen Anderson, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Most story author's are pseudonyms. Includes a Diana Daw comic strip set in space. This is the final issue before the name change to Speed Adventure Stories.
SPICY-ADVENTURE STORIES.
Wilmington, DE: Culture Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes the posthumous publication of the story "Murderer's Grog," a wild Bill Clanton story using the pseudonym Sam Walser.
STRANGE STORIES.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The final issue. Fiction by E. Hoffman Price, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, and others. Strange Stories was a magazine established to compete with Weird Tales, it lasted only thirteen issues. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 623-625.
WHISPERS.
Browns Mills, NJ: Stuart David Schiff, 1983. Octavo, single issue, cloth. First edition. Of 376 hardbound copies this is one of 350 numbered copies signed by Whitley Streiber and publisher Stuart Schiff. The Whitley Streiber issue. Contributors include Streiber, Charles Grant, Stephen Goldin, Manly Wade Wellman, Hugh B. Cave and others.
SUPER-DETECTIVE.
New York: Trojan Publishing Corporation, 1941. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. In the beginning this was not really a detective magazine but a hero-adventure magazine featuring Jim Anthony of Irish and American Indian lineage. Basically a Doc Savage imitation. With this issue and story "I.O.U. Murder" the series moved into a detective series with the adventure trappings and the Anthony character started wearing business suits. The stories were written by John Grange, a house pseudonym for Robert Leslie Bellem and W. T. Ballard. The Anthony character was phased out in 1943. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 543-545.
SUPER-DETECTIVE.
New York: Trojan Publishing Corporation, 1942. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. In the beginning this was not really a detective magazine but a hero-adventure magazine featuring Jim Anthony of Irish and American Indian lineage. Basically a Doc Savage imitation. The stories were written by John Grange, a house pseudonym for Robert Leslie Bellem and W. T. Ballard. The Anthony character was phased out in 1943. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 543-545.
TALES OF WONDER.
Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd., 1938. Octavo, single issue, cover art by W. J. Roberts, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Britain's first adult oriented science fiction magazine, at first publishing solely original material from British authors and reprints from U.S. magazines, and later adding new material from American authors. "Tales of Wonder was a lively, entertaining and enjoyable magazine..." Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazine, pp. 652-654. The magazine had to cease publication due to wartime paper restrictions after sixteen issues. Includes Edmond Hamilton, Francis Flagg, Stanton A. Coblentz, and others. Also includes a science article by Arthur C. Clarke, "Man's Empire of Tomorrow," his first professional appearance.
THE AVENGER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by H. W. Scott, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Frosted Death" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39.
THE AVENGER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Nevlo" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39.
THE AVENGER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by A. Leslie Ross, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Wilder Curse" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39.
THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER MAGAZINE (Five issues, all published).
New York: Grace Publishing Co., Inc., 1951-1952. Small octavo, five issues, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Primarily a reprint magazine, there were a few original stories. Authors include Dorothy Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Ray Bradbury, Kenneth Millar, Agatha Christie, Bruno Fischer, Cornell Woolrich, Sax Rohmer, August Derleth and others. Derived to tie-in with The Mysterious Traveler radio program. All covers feature "good girl art." Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 340-341.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1934. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Fiction by Ellery Queen, Vincent Starrett, Mignon G. Eberhart, Hulbert Footner and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1933. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. "The House Under the Lake" by Herbert Adams. Also fiction by Stuart Palmer (Hildegarde Withers), Mignon G. Eberhart, Hulbert Footner, and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1933. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. "The House Under the Lake" by Herbert Adams. Also fiction by Stuart Palmer (Hildegarde Withers), Mignon G. Eberhart, Hulbert Footner, and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Getaway Ring" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Grant Lane (pseudonym for Steve Fisher) short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by Modest Stein, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Golden Doom" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher writing as Stephen Gould short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Gray Ghost" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1938. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Cards of Death" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Photo cover of Rod La Rocque as The Shadow. "Death Turrets" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
Elizabeth, N.J. Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1949. Octavo, single issue, cover Rozen, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Madrigals Mystery" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
TOP-NOTCH.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1914. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes four pages of team photographs of professional baseball teams including the Philadelphia Athletics and the Boston Braves who played in the World Series that year. Also several team pictures from the Federal league which was a third major league during 1914 and 1915. Also includes an interview with George "Nap" Rucker, left handed pitcher for Brooklyn.
TRIPLE DETECTIVE.
Springfield, MA: Best Publications, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Jonathan Latimer, Eleazar Lipsky, and Richard Burke. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 582-583.
UNKNOWN WORLDS [U.K. edition].
[London: Atlas Publishing & Distributing, Co. Ltd.], 1949. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The final issue of the U.K. run which lasted beyond the U.S. run of issues. Includes Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, Theodore Sturgeon writing as "E. Waldo Hunter," and others. All stories previous published in the U.S. edition 1939-1941.
UNKNOWN WORLDS.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Fiction by Anthony Boucher, Theodore Sturgeon, Eric Frank Russell, Jane Rice and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Theodore Stugeon (two, the second using the pseudonym E. Hunter Waldo), Nelson S. Bond, Fritz Leiber and others. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699.