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Complete Gang Novel (Magazine)

Country: US
Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1931, as Complete Gang Novel:

Crime Fiction Index

Apr-1931 – May-1932, as Complete Gang Novel Magazine:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

Complete Gang Novel imprint of Hersey's Good Story Magazine

Editors

Kenneth Owens; M.J. Keiley;

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

bimonthly to Aug/Sep-1931, then monthly

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Complete Love Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 80

The May/Jun-1951 to Feb-1952 issues were a hybrid comic/pulp magazine, and from Apr-1952 on it became a fully-fledged comic and continued as such until Sep-1956.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1938 – Oct-1951:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Periodical House, Inc. (Ace Magazines)
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Complete Love Magazine (Canada)

Country: Canada

Canadian reprint edition of Complete Love Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: late 1940s:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Ace International Publishing Corp
Formats: pulp


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Complete Love Novel Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1930 – Sep/Oct-1930: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Novel Magazine Corp.
Frequency:   mostly monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Complete Man

see under Ken for Men

Complete Man's Magazine

see under Ken for Men

Complete Movie Novel Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1931 – Aug-1931: General Fiction Index

Publishers:   Archer Press Corp.
Frequency:   bimonthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Complete Mystery Novelettes

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

A short-lived all-reprint magazine which, despite its name, predominantly featured cops-and-robbers crime adventures, often featuring organised crime.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1931 – Apr-1933:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Clayton Magazines, NY
Editors:   John Burr
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   quarterly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Complete Mystery Novelettes (Canada)

Country: Canada

Canadian reprint edition of Complete Mystery Novelettes.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1933:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Formats: standard pulp
Mentioned in: The Pulpster #11, 2001

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Complete Northwest (Novel) (Magazine)

Country: US
Total Issues: 14+5+4=23

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1935 – Jan-1938, as Complete Northwest Novel Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

Mar-1938 – Dec-1938, as Complete Northwest Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Oct-1938)

Feb-1939 – Apr-1940, as Complete Northwest:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Jul-1939; Apr-1940)

Publishers

Northwest Publishing Co. Inc. (Columbia)

Formats

standard pulp

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Complete Novel Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 38+100+1=139

From early 1927 the legend "Wild West Stories" appeared above the title on the cover, but the spine and ToC still referred only to "Complete Novel Magazine". Then, around Jul-1928, it was formally retitled Wild West Stories & Complete Novel Magazine. There was also a final, 139th, issue under the title Western Novelets.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1925 – Jun-1928:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: #24, Apr-1927; #35, Mar-1928)

Jul-1928 – Sep-1939, as Wild West Stories and Complete Novel Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

(incomplete)

Dec-1939, as Western Novelets:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers

Novel Magazine Corp/Teck Publications. Red Circle may have taken over the title.
in 1929: MacKinnon-Fly

Editors

1931 – Sep-1939: Frederick Gardener

Formats

standard pulp (later 10c)

Prices

20c

Frequency

monthly at outset; later bimonthly/irregular

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Complete Novel (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 763

Each issue contained a lead novelette and a back-up serial. The British Library lists this as The Complete Novel Weekly.

Issues & Index Sources

7-Nov-1925 – 15-Jun-1940:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

#merges with Smart Novels

Publishers

1925 – c. 1933: Shurey's Publications
c. 1933 – 1940: William Stevens

Editors

1925 – c. 1933: Isobel Thorne

Prices

Pagecounts

40pp

Frequency

weekly

Complete Novel Western

Country: US

Probably a series of novels in digest form.

Issues & Index Sources: ?:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues; possibly phantom)

Mentioned in: The Pulp Western

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Complete Police Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: 1954 – ?

Publishers: Zenith Publishing Corp., 655 Madison Ave., New York, NY
Frequency: quarterly

Complete Romance Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1949 – Feb-1950?: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)


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Complete Sensational Library

Country: UK
Total Issues: 20?

Gifford notes "no information held on this title" which sounds like a cover blurb rather than a series in itself.

Issues & Index Sources: 1895?:

Story Paper Index

(incomplete)

Complete Sky Novel

Country: US
Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1930 – Apr-1931: Adventure Fiction Index

Pulp Magazine Index 1
Publishers:   Real Publications, Inc.
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Complete Sports

Country: US
Total Issues: 61

1955 issues are titled "Complete Sports Action".

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1937 – Oct-1955:

Sports Fiction Index

(Missing: Sep-1937)

Publishers:   Western Magazines 'Red Circle'
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines



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