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Dorothy Novelette

Country: UK

In 1900 became a supplement to the fiction magazine The Family Novelist.

Issues & Index Sources

16-Sep-1889 – 1890

1890, as Dorothy's Home Journal for Ladies

1891 – 1897, as Dorothy's Home Journal

1897 – 1899, as Dorothy, the Home Journal for Ladies

Publishers

  16-Sep-1889 – Dec-1894: T P Chapman
  Jan-1895 – 1896: Horace Marshall and Sons, Temple Ave, London EC
  1896 – 1899: William Lucas, 28 Dean St, New Fetter Lane, London

Formats

small tabloid (quarto)

Frequency

weekly

Double-Action Detective

Country: US
Total Issues: 8

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.

The title was revived as a digest in 1954 when Silberkleit thought the field was expanding. Although really a second series of the same magazine it is treated separately below.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1938 – Oct-1940:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Blue Ribbon Magazines (Columbia Publications)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   112pp
Frequency:   irregular
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Double Action Detective (Australia)

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 2 (at least)

A thin Australian digest printing original stories by Australian authors.

Issues & Index Sources: ?:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers: Action Comics Pty. Ltd., 14 Bond Street, Sydney.
Mentioned in: Australian Crime Fiction


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Double-Action Detective Novel Monthly

Country: US

Actually a book series rather than a magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: 1943

Double-Action Detective Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 24?

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.

Issues & Index Sources

#1, 1954 – Spring 1957:

Crime Fiction Index

Summer 1957 – Sep-1960, as Double-Action Detective and Mystery Stories:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: Jul-1960, Sep-1960 - may not exist)

Publishers

Columbia Publications, NY

Editors

Robert A.W. Lowndes

Formats

digest

Prices

35c

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

first 5 issues occasional; quarterly from Spring 1957; bimonthly from May-1958

Mentioned in: Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Double-Action Gang Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 6+9+1=16

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.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1936 – Apr-1937:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 3

Dec-1937 – Jul-1939:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 3

Oct-1939, as True Gangster Stories:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

Winford Publications, Inc. (Columbia Publications)

Editors

Cliff Campbell

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

15c

Pagecounts

12pp

Frequency

bimonthly (though second series drifted towards quarterly)

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Double Action Western

Country: US
Total Issues: 154

Issues & Index Sources

Sep-1934 – Dec-1935, as Double Action Western Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issues only)

Jan-1936 – May-1960, as Double Action Western:

Western Fiction Index

(incomplete)

Publishers

Sep-1934 – 1939?: Winford Publications, Inc. (Columbia Publications)
1942? – 1960: Columbia Publications, NY

Editors

Robert W. Lowndes (from 1942)

Formats

Sep-1934 – Feb-1959: standard pulp
Apr-1959 – May-1960: digest

Prices

15c

Pagecounts

112pp

Frequency

bimonthly/quarterly

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



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Double-Action Western (Canada)

Country: Canada

Canadian reprint edition of Double Action Western.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Columbia Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c


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Double Action Western Stories

see under New All-Action Stories

Double Action Western (UK) [1942]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1942: Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   48pp

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Double Action Western (UK) [1954]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 8?

British reprint edition of Double Action Western.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1954:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: #2)

Publishers: Hermitage Publications, Leicester
Formats: standard pulp



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Double:Bill

Country: US
Total Issues: 21

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1962 – Fall 1969:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Editors: Bill Bowers & Bill Mallardi



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Double Danger Tales [1997]

Country: US
Total Issues: 63+2=65

"Favorite pulp heroes in exciting new adventures as well as the adventures of all new heroes in the classic pulp tradition."

Issues & Index Sources

Feb-1997 – Jun-2003:

Adventure Fiction Index

Dec-2011 – Feb-2012:

Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers

Fading Shadows, Inc.

Editors

Feb-1997 – Jun-2003: Tom & Ginger Johnson

Formats

paperback

Prices

Feb-1997 – Jun-2003: $5.00 + $1.30 postage

Pagecounts

Feb-1997 – Jun-2003: c. 80pp

Frequency

  Feb-1997 – Mar-2000: monthly
  Jun-2000 – Jun-2003: roughly bimonthly
  Dec-2011 – Feb-2012: bimonthly



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Double Danger Tales [2007]

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  2007: Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers:   Wild Cat Books
Editors:   Ron Hanna
Formats:   paperback)
Prices:   $14.95
Pagecounts:   218pp


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The Double Dealer

Country: US
Total Issues: 48

The Double Dealer was a short-lived but influential New-Orleans-based literary journal which was established as a platform for contemporary Southern writers of a modernist bent. Authors include Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1921 – May-1926:

FictionMags Index

Publishers:   in New Orleans
Related Sites:   Wikipedia
Online Sources:   Online Books

Double Detective

Country: US
Total Issues: 41+5+1=47

The original magazine folded in 1941 when Munsey sold the title (with others) to Popular Publications; shortly thereafter Munsey effectively revived it under the title Love-Crime Detective which ran for 5 issues in 1942. Then, in 1943, Popular revived the original title but it only lasted for a single issue.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1937 – Oct-1941:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Aug-1942 – Dec-1942, as Love-Crime Detective:

Crime Fiction Index

Mar-1943, as Double Detective:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

Nov-1937 – Dec-1942: Frank A. Munsey Company
Mar-1943: Popular Publications

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c

Frequency

  Nov-1937 – Oct-1940: monthly
  Dec-1940 – Oct-1941: bimonthly
  Aug-1942 – Dec-1942: monthly

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Double Feature Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-2016 – Dec-2016: Science Fiction Index

Publishers: Mechanical Mayhem Press


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