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Racket-Buster Detective

Total Issues: 1

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War. In a loose series with Crime Detective, Homicide Detective, Police Detective and Crime Investigator.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1949: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp
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Racketeer and Gangland Stories

see under Gangland Stories

Racketeer Stories

Total Issues: 19

Racketeer Stories was one of Harold Hersey's less successful gangster pulp magazines, attempting to cash in on the popularity of Gangster Stories. It lasted for only 19 issues before being merged with its companion magazine, Gangland Stories.

The Dec-1929 issue was an ashcan issue containing no fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  Dec-1929 – Mar/Apr-1932: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

#merges with Gangland Stories

Publishers

  Good Story Magazine (Harold Hersey)

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  20c

Frequency

  mostly monthly, but bi-monthly from May/Jun-1931

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Rackets

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1956
Publishers:   Publishing Corporation
Sources:   MansWorld

Racket Stories

The rumor that a pulp magazine existed by this title has not been confirmed by any positive evidence, and none have been found. It may be confused with Racketeer Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: All issues; possibly phantom)
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Raconteur

Quarterly (paperback) magazine of original stories; each issue chooses a winner and runner-up. Sponsored by The European newspaper, who can publish any of the submitted stories under 1500 words.

Issues & Index Sources:  1993? – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Raconteur Publications
Editors:   Graham Lord (in 1995)
Formats:   trade paperback
Prices:   £5.99 (in 1995)
Pagecounts:   241pp (in 1995)

Racy

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Racy Stories

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1949: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Prices:   2/6d
Pagecounts:   32pp

Radiant

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1953
Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London

Radio News

Total Issues: 108

A popular science magazine which regularly published fiction. First issues, and all issues after Jun-1928, were non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1919 – Jun-1928: Miller/Contento (only fiction indexed)
Publishers:   Gernsback
Formats:   bedsheet
Related Sites:   MagazineArt
Sources:   UltGuide
 
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Radio Record

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Deaton & Spencer, Sydney
Formats:   digest
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   50pp

Radio Shorts

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  Feb-1946? (possibly phantom)
Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Prices:   7d

Radio Stories

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1924? – ?
Publishers:   MacFadden

Radio Times

Total Issues: 4052 (to Oct-2001)

The oldest UK radio and television listings magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  28-Sep-1923 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   BBC, London
Editors:   Sue Robinson (in 1997)
Frequency:   weekly

RAF Aces

Total Issues: 13

Spring 1942 cover in Goodstone The Pulps (fig.27); cover declares these are "True Action Stories of the Men With Wings."

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1941 – Summer 1944: Pulp Magazine Index 1 (Missing: Fall 1943 & Summer 1944)
Publishers:   Standard Magazines
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   112pp
Frequency:   quarterly?
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide
 
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RAF Aces (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of RAF Aces.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
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Rage

Total Issues: 12+

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1960 – Jul-1964
Publishers:   Natlus Inc.
Sources:   MansWorld


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