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15 STORY DETECTIVE.
Kokomo, IN: Popular Publications, Inc., 1950, Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. This magazine first started as ALL-STORY DETECTIVE with a title change to the present with the February 1950 issue. Only fifteen issues in total published. Fiction by Frederick C. Davis, William Campbell Gault, Richard Deming and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 24-25].
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THE RED STAR OF TARZAN [TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY] in ARGOSY [complete in six issues].
New York: The Frank A. Munsey, Company, 1938. Octavo, six issues, cover illustration for the March 19 issue by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Complete six part serial "The Red Star of Tarzan." The editor had this serial re-written and expanded by Ben Nelson and Burroughs Mitchell. The novel, published in book form as TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY, used Burroughs manuscript and not the serial version. Belarksi based his Tarzan cover painting on Johnny Weissmuller. [Reference: Zeuscher, Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Bibliography, pp. 341-342].
CAPTAIN FUTURE.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Lost World of Time" by Edmond Hamilton. The only hero pulp magazine solely within the science fiction genre. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 155-157].
CAPTAIN FUTURE.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Star Trail to Glory" by Edmond Hamilton. Also a Fredric Brown short story. The only hero pulp magazine solely within the science fiction genre. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 155-157].
FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES: combined with FANTASTIC NOVELS MAGAZINE.
New York: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Virgil Finlay, printed wrappers. Pulp magazine. Features "Beyond the Great Oblivion" by George Allan England. Primarily FFM reprinted science fantasy material. "Famous Fantastic Mysteries [has] a special historical significance because it preserved (and introduced a new generation to) the older traditions from which modern science fiction emerged." - Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 212-216. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 211-216].
FANTASTIC STORY MAGAZINE.
Kokomo, IN: Best Books, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Largely a reprint magazine which started life as Fantastic Story Quarterly. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 249-250].
FANTASTIC.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1953. Octavo, single issue cover by W. T. Mars, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. Includes new fiction by William P. McGivern, John Wyndham, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester and others. Fantastic was an interesting magazine with ups and downs, the first couple years under Browne's editorship and then later under Cele Goldsmith were high spots. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 221-232].
GOLDEN FLEECE.
Chicago: Sun Publications, 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Harold Delay, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by H. Bedord Jones, Seabury Quinn, A. Westcott McKee, Pansy E. Black and others. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 319-320].
THE PUPPET MASTERS in GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION September-November, 1951.
[New York: World Editions, Inc., 1951]. Small octavo, three issues, covers by Don Sibley, Richard Arbib, pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. The complete first appearance of the Heinlein's THE PUPPET MASTERS in three serial parts. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 290-309].
MAMMOTH DETECTIVE.
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1943. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Double Cross of Death" by William P. McGivern. Fiction by Nelson Bond, W.T. Ballard, and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, p. 314-315].
MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES.
New York: Stadium Publishing Corporation, 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Norman Saunders, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by John Beynon (Harris), Lester del Rey, Alfred Coppel and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 398-401].
OPERATOR #5.
Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue cover by John Howitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Red Invader," Curtis Steele (pseudonym). A well regarded hero pulp with strong science fictional elements combined with spy fiction. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 402-405. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 448-451].
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Parkhurst pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Include fiction by Ray Bradbury, "Defense Mech," Henry Kuttner, Gardner F. Fox and others. Unabashedly the magazine was a proponent of "space-opera." In Leigh Brackett's introduction in the anthology THE BEST OF PLANET STORIES (1974) she states "the so-called space opera is the folk-tale, the hero-tale of our particular niche in history." [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481].
PLANET STORIES.
New York: Love Romances, 1946. Octavo, single issue, cover by Parkhurst pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Ray Bradbury; "Defense Mech," Henry Kuttner, Gardner F. Fox and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 476-481].
SMASHING DETECTIVE STORIES.
Holyoke, MA: Columbia Publications, Inc., 1954. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Carroll John Daly and others. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 510-511].
STRANGE STORIES.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Manly Wade Wellman, August Derleth with two stories, the second as "Eldon Heath," Arthur J. Burks and others. Strange Stories was a magazine established to compete with Weird Tales, it lasted only thirteen issues. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 623-625].
TERROR TALES.
Chicago, Popular Publications, 1935. Octavo, cover by John Howitt, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Arthur Leo Zagat, Arthur J. Burks, E. Hoffman Price, and others. [Reference: Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 660-661].
THE AVENGER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by H. W. Scott, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Three Gold Crowns" by Kenneth Robeson (pseudonym). [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 36-39].
THE WHISPERER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Established in the vein of The Shadow, James Gordon created the alter ego of The Whisperer, who posed as an underworld figure to fight crime. "For pulp fiction of this type, these were brutal, uncompromising stories of a type for which [writer] Laurence Donovan's gritty style was particularly suited." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 607-610. This is the final issue of the first run. The magazine was canceled in 1937 and revived in 1940 (running until 1942). Feature novel "The Lost Face Murders" by Clifford Goodrich (Laurence Donovan writing under the house pseudonym).
UNKNOWN.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Contents include: "The Bronze Door" by Raymond Chandler, in which a man purchases a 'magic door' which when things go through it they disappear, which is what he does to his wife who is filing for divorce. [Reference: Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 694-699].