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Details taken from Table of Contents. |
Details taken from Table of Contents. |
Details taken from Table of Contents. |
The rumor that a pulp magazine existed by this title has not been confirmed by any positive evidence, and no issues have been found. It may have resulted from a confusion with Racketeer Stories. |
This title is rumoured to exist, but no positive evidence has been found to substantiate it. |
Published as a companion to Rapid-Fire Action Stories and Rapid-Fire Western Stories, Rapid-Fire Detective Stories was an undistinguished detective pulp that ran for 8 issues. |
Details supplied by Steve Miller & Doug Ellis. |
Details supplied by Doug Ellis. |
Details supplied by Doug Ellis. |
Details supplied by Doug Ellis. |
Details supplied by Doug Ellis. |
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Details supplied by Doug Ellis. |
Details supplied by Doug Ellis. |
One story was announced for the unpublished June 1933 issue. |
Real Detective Tales is one of the most elusive of the early detective pulps. It began in late 1922 under the name Detective Tales publishing indifferent mystery and detective stories, but by mid-1924 the publisher, Rural Publications, had run into difficulty so the magazine was sold to Real Detective Tales, Inc. who changed its name, first to Real Detective Tales and then to Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories. By this point it had acquired an interesting stable of authors including Seabury Quinn, George Allan England and Miriam Allen deFord. It ran for six years under this latter title (mainly on a monthly basis) but gradually during 1931 transformed into a non-fiction magazine called Real Detective, although fiction continued to appear into 1934 at least. It is not currently known exactly when the last issue containing any fiction appeared. For most of the period it was a large (8.25″ x 11.25″) pulp, with a single issue (March 1923) as a regular pulp and a handful of issues in 1923 as an even larger (9″ x 12″) pulp. |
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Details supplied by John Locke. |
Details supplied by Steve Miller. |