Details supplied by Steve Miller & Sai Shankar. |
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Details supplied by John Locke from Table of Contents. |
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Details supplied by Richard Newsome from Table of Contents. |
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Title changed from Startling Detective Adventures. |
Details taken from eBay listing. |
Details taken from eBay listing. |
An attempt to cash in on the popularity of the “shudder pulps”, Startling Mystery Magazine used reprint covers and paid authors only half the then-going rate. Perhaps as a result it folded after only two issues, though a third issue was planned. |
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One story was announced for the unpublished June 1940 issue. |
British reprint edition of Startling Mystery Magazine. There was probably only one issue which reprinted stories from the first issue of the American edition. |
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Startling Mystery Stories specialised in stories where either the detective or villain had supernatural powers or their scientific equivalent. Despite a steadily growing circulation during its 18 issues it was killed in 1971 by increasing costs and distribution problems. |
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