Despite the title, the magazine had no connection to the character created and made popular by Don Pendleton in his series of paperback books on "The Executioner" and featured all new stories in a more-or-less standard crime adventure fare. The magazine commenced publication with issue Number 4 of Volume 1, possibly due to the first issue being published in the fourth month of the year. There were no issues Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2 and 3.

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Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1938:

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Publishers:   Newsdealers Magazine Corp
Formats:   digest
Mentioned in:   Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps

Included a 16-page colour comics section.

Subtitled "a journal of Horror and the Paranormal" the magazine mainly featured fiction with poetry and graphic strips thrown in.

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1890s

Publishers:   American Publishers Corporation
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

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Publishers:   J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

In 1900 became a supplement to the fiction magazine The Family Novelist.

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Promising "double-action thrills in the world of crime", the magazine typically featured tough detective and crime-adventure tableaus, spotlighting the hard-boiled school of the private eye.

The title was revived as a digest in 1954 when Silberkleit thought the field was expanding. Although really a second series of the same magazine it is treated separately below.

A thin Australian digest printing original stories by Australian authors.

Actually a book series rather than a magazine.

Double Action Detective Stories was a pulp magazine in every way but size, at a time when the competition had moved on to more sophisticated material. Initially published only twice a year (although the issues weren't dated), it shifted to a quarterly schedule after the fifth issue, and then to a bimonthly schedule the following year, changing its name at much the same time to Double Action Detective and Mystery Stories.

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Double-Action Gang Magazine was a short-lived member of the "Double Action" magazine group and claimed to be oriented to "guns, gangsters, gun molls and stories of true gang life". It ran on a vaguely bimonthly schedule for 4 years. The final, October 1939, issue was confusingly renamed to True Gangster Stories despite containing the same mix of fact and fiction as before.

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Canadian reprint edition of Double Action Western.