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Real Screen Fun

Total Issues: 65

Ran a small amount of fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1934 – Nov-1942?

Publishers: Tilsam Publications
Sources: Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Real Smart

Total Issues: 10?

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1930 – Jan/Feb-1931?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   The Crown Publishing Co., Inc., Wilmington, Delaware
Editors:   Henry Marcus
Sources:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps



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Real Spicy Horror Tales

Total Issues: 1

A pulp parody.

Issues & Index Sources: Apr-1937:

Science Fiction Index

Publishers:   The Yale Record
Formats:   bedsheet
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Real Sports

Total Issues: 5+6=11

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1938 – Apr-1939:

Sports Fiction Index

Oct-1947 – Nov-1948:

Sports Fiction Index

Publishers

Mar-1938 – Apr-1939: Western Fiction Publishing [Red Circle]
Oct-1947 – Nov-1948: Interstate Publishing

Formats

standard pulp

Sources: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Sports in the Pulp Magazines



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Real Stolen Sweets

see under Stolen Sweets

Real Story

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950

Real Story Book (Frolics)

Total Issues: 20+5+7+9?=41?

A pulp-sized stapled magazine printed on pulp paper, this girlie magazine contains stories, poems, art, jokes, cartoons, and nude photos. By 1931 it had become a reprint magazine, binding unsold copies of other Detinuer Publishing pulps.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1928 – Jul-1930, as Real Story Book:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Aug-1930 – Nov-1930, as Real Story Book Frolics:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Dec-1930 – Jun-1931, as Frolics

Jun-1931 – Apr-1932?, as Paris Frolics:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  Detinuer Publishing Co.
  in 1931: The King Publishing Co.

Sources:   Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps



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Real Telling Tales

see under Real Tempting Tales

Real Tempting Tales

Total Issues: 1+6=7

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1934, as Real Telling Tales

Oct-1934 – Apr-1935, as Real Tempting Tales

Publishers

The Burnham Company

Sources: Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps



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Real War

Total Issues: 9

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1957 – Nov-1958:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers: Stanley Publications
Sources: It's a Man's World



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Real West

Issues seen for Sep-1969 and 1977.

Issues & Index Sources

196? – 197?

Frequency

  Jan-1973 – Jul-1975: monthly
  Sep-1975 – May-1976: bimonthly
  Jan-1980 – ?: every 6 weeks
  Jun-1982 – ?: bimonthly

Sources:   The Pulp Western

Real Western (Stories)

Total Issues: 149

Issues & Index Sources

Jan-1935 – Oct-1949, as Real Western:

Western Fiction Index

(incomplete)

Dec-1949 – Apr-1960, as Real Western Stories:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Feb-1950; Jun-1950; Oct-1950; Feb-1951; Jun-1951)

Publishers

Jan-1935 – Nov-1939: Winford Publications, Inc. (Columbia Publications)
Nov-1940 – Apr-1960: Columbia Publications

Editors

A.A. Wyn at outset; Robert W. Lowndes under Columbia

Formats

Jan-1935 – Dec-1958: standard pulp
Feb-1959 – Apr-1960: digest

Prices

15c

Pagecounts

112pp

Frequency

bimonthly

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



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Real Western (Canada)

Started as a locally-produced Canadian pulp called Real Western reprinting stories from assorted US pulps. Changed name briefly in 1945 to Western Magazine and then reappeared in the late 1940s, after the import restrictions had been lifted, as a Canadian reprint edition of Real Western.

Issues & Index Sources

? – Dec-1944:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issues only)

Jan-1945 – Feb-1945, as Western Magazine (Canada):

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

c. 1948, as Real Western (Canada):

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Publishers

Duchess Printing & Publishing Co.

Formats

pulp

Prices

15c

Sources: The Pulpster #11, 2001



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Real Western Mystery Novels

There is rumoured to be a pulp magazine of this title, but no positive evidence of it has been found. (MDE)

Issues & Index Sources: ?:	Crime Fiction Index	(Missing: all issues; possibly phantom)
	Western Fiction Index	(Missing: all issues; possibly phantom)

Sources: The Pulp Western

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Real Western Romances

Total Issues: 57?

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1949 – Dec-1951:

Western Fiction Index

Apr-1952 – Jul-1952, as Western Romances:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Jul-1952)

Oct-1952 – Mar-1957, as Real Western Romances:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Apr-1953, Oct-1953, Jul-1954, Nov-1954, Jan-1957, Mar-1957)

May-1957 – Dec-1960?, as Western Romances:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Nov-1958, Jul-1959, Nov-1959, Dec-1960)

Publishers

Columbia Publications

Editors

in 1951: Robert W. Lowndes
c. 1952 – Sep-1957?: Marie Antoinette Park

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

mostly bimonthly

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



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Real Western Stories

see under Real Western (Stories)

Real Western Stories (UK)

Total Issues: 8?

British reprint edition of Real Western Stories. Renamed Western Magazine at some point.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: #1, #2, any after #6)

Formats: standard pulp


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Recent Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1946 – ?

Publishers: Associated Weekly Newspapers (1946); Export Publishing Enterprises Ltd. (1949)

The Recluse

Total Issues: 1

A one-shot amateur journalism publication with a high concentration of fantasy and fantasy-related material. Often considered the first fanzine, though it predates the formation of SF fandom by several years. A "facsimile" reprint (actually a Xerox) was issued by Moshassuck Press, Glenview, IL in 1990.

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1927:

Science Fiction Index


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