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Issue not indexed. |
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Details supplied by Steve Holland. |
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Christmas Number. Subtitled “An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review”. Details supplied by Richard Bleiler. |
Only fiction listed. Details taken from Table of Contents. |
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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 Volume 1 No. 4, possibly due to the first issue being published in the fourth month of the year. There were no issues labelled Volume 1 No. 1, Volume 1 No. 2 or Volume 1 No. 3. |
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Title changed from Don Pendleton’s The Executioner Mystery Magazine. |
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One story was announced for the unpublished June 1937 issue. |
Details supplied by Steve Miller. |
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First printing of 126 copies (so stated on contents page) all dispersed; slightly corrected second printing (without limitation statement), December 2016. Details supplied by Henry Wessells. |
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Page 35-50 are a 16 page slick photo section of cheesecake photos. Details supplied by Richard Newsome from Table of Contents. |
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Fanzine. |
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Details supplied by Richard Bleiler. |
Details supplied by Richard Bleiler. |
Issue partially indexed. |
Issue partially indexed. |
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. |
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Details supplied by John Locke. |
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Details taken from Table of Contents. |
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A thin Australian digest printing original stories by Australian authors. |
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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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Details supplied by Douglas Greene. |
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Details supplied by Douglas Greene. |
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Details supplied by Joe Horka, Jr. |
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Details supplied by Matthias Belz. |
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