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Title changed from Don Pendleton’s The Executioner Mystery Magazine. |
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Details supplied by John Locke. |
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One story was announced for the unpublished June 1937 issue.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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Title changed from Double-Action Detective Stories. |
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Details supplied by Joe Horka, Jr. |
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Details taken from Table of Contents. |
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Details supplied by James Felton. |
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Details supplied by Matthias Belz. |
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Details supplied by Joe Horka, Jr. |
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Details supplied by Joe Horka, Jr. |
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Details taken from Table of Contents. |
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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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Details taken from eBay listing. |
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