Short story magazine featuring "new dynamic stories by America's new authors. Vol 1 No. 5 is copyrighted 1990.

Secret Agent magazine dominated by lead novels. First issue all by John Jakes; second issue almost certainly by Michael Avallone under alias John Kennedy.

Issues & Index Sources:  1896 – Aug-1900?:

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Publishers:   Orange Judd Co.
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Subtitled "A Quarterly for the Fancy Free" contained a mixture of fiction and poetry.

Issues & Index Sources:  1-Aug-1889 – 1-Nov-1890:

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Publishers:   John W. Lovell Co.; United States Book Co., 150 Worth St., Cor. Mission Place, New York
Formats:   4 7/8 x 7 1/4"
Prices:   50c
Pagecounts:   250
Frequency:   Semi-Monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

See comment in Pulp Collector #21.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1920s:

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A mainly fiction-oriented juvenile magazine, roughly equivalent to Britain's The Boy's Own Paper. Originally a Boy Scout magazine; absorbed The Youth's Companion from October 1929.

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The first issue was labelled "A New Kind of Magazine, The best in Fiction, Fact and Features."

Thin digest that ran for at least 37 issues, in two separate series. Despite the title and the boast that it contained "fast-moving drama by popular American authors" it seems to have contained only stories by Australian authors, probably a small number under multiple pseudonyms.

Some issues may have just been titled American Crime.

There was also an associated series of standalone novelettes published by the same publisher under the same series title of which only two undated examples are known - THE COUNTERFEITERS by Rex Young and MURDER MADNESS by Steve Hawk.

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From the fourth issue the subtitle "Fact Cases" was added to the cover (only) so this magazine is sometimes referred to as American Detective Fact Cases or even American Detective Cases on issues where the word "Fact" is obscured by the cover art.

Thin digest that ran for at least 42 issues, in two separate series. Despite the title it seems to have contained only stories by Australian authors, probably a small number under multiple pseudonyms. Some issues were just been titled American Detective.

There was also an associated series of standalone novelettes published by the same publisher under the same series title of which only four undated examples are known - BULLETS FOR SALE by E. Hamilton Clay, SINGING DEATH by Gordon Alexander, and THE BLACK ORCHID and BULLETS FOR BLONDES, both by Steve Hawk.

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Little is known about this publication, which is assumed to be a companion to American Detective Magazine. Most of the issues contained multiple stories, but for some of the issues identified to date only the lead novella is known and may comprise the total contents of the issue.

Contained Old Sleuth stories and reprints from Beadle publications and some Sherlock Holmes stories.

The original series had 40 issues. The amount was increased to 50 and again to 59 at various times during the 1920s, with an additional 5 "replacement issues".

A series of Australian booklets, numbered but not dated.