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Snappy Detective Mysteries

Country: US
Total Issues: 2+3=5

Short-lived risque companion to Snappy/Sizzling Romances and similar titles.

Issues & Index Sources

May-1935 – Jun-1935:

Crime Fiction Index

Jul-1935 – Sep-1935, as Sizzling Detective Mysteries:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

May-1935 – Jun-1935: Edmar Publishing Co., Inc., 125 W. 45th Street, New York
Jul-1935 – Sep-1935: Nudeal Publishing Co., Wilmington.

Formats

large pulp

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



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Snappy Detective Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Following the initial success of Spicy Detective Stories the publishers attempted to reserve the "Spicy" adjective for themselves by producing ashcan issues for two proposed companion titles, Spicy Mystery Stories and Spicy Adventure Stories.

Simultaneously, the same publishers (Harry Donenfeld & Frank Armer) produced three more ashcan issues, for a parallel line of "Snappy" titles. Each of these issues was 12 pages long and was dated July 1934. The three Snappies never did achieve real publication but, possibly in response to the launch of Snappy Detective Mysteries by a rival publisher, a second set of ashcan issues was prepared and copyrighted. They were a bit more substantial than the first issues (36 pages) and were all dated May 1935.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1934 – May-1935:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Trojan Publishing (#1), Culture Publications (#2)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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Snappy Mystery Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Following the initial success of Spicy Detective Stories the publishers attempted to reserve the "Spicy" adjective for themselves by producing ashcan issues for two proposed companion titles, Spicy Mystery Stories and Spicy Adventure Stories.

Simultaneously, the same publishers (Harry Donenfeld & Frank Armer) produced three more ashcan issues, for a parallel line of "Snappy" titles. Each of these issues was 12 pages long and was dated July 1934. The three Snappies never did achieve real publication but, possibly in response to the launch of Snappy Detective Mysteries by a rival publisher, a second set of ashcan issues was prepared and copyrighted. They were a bit more substantial than the first issues (36 pages) and were all dated May 1935.

The contents of the second issue are not known; the Library of Congress can no longer find its copy, and no other has yet surfaced.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-1934 – May-1935:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: May-1935)

Publishers:   Trojan Publishing (#1), Culture Publications (#2)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   128pp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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Snappy Romances

Country: US
Total Issues: 2+3+6?=11?

Issues & Index Sources

May-1935 – Jun-1935:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: Jun-1935)

Jul-1935 – Sep-1935, as Sizzling Romances:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: Sep-1935)

Jan-1936 – Jul-1936, as Real Breezy Romances:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: Jan-1936)

Publishers

  May-1935 – Jun-1935: Edmar Publishing Co., Inc.
  Jul-1935 – Sep-1935: Nudeal Publishing Co.
  Jan-1936 – Jul-1936: Best Publishers

Formats

May-1935 – Jun-1935: standard pulp
Jul-1935 – Jul-1936: bedsheet

Prices

25c

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps



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Snappy Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 316+ (possibly 321)

An early example of liberated fiction full of free women!

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1912 – Mar-1927:

FictionMags Index

(incomplete)

Apr-1927 – May-1928, as Snappy Stories and Pictures:

FictionMags Index

(incomplete)

1930 – 1932?, as Snappy Stories:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers

1912 – 1928: The New Fiction Publishing Corporation (Clayton Magazines)
1930 – ?: Lowell Publications Inc.

Editors

Virgina O'Day, Alexander Samalman

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

20c

Frequency

  Aug-1912 – Aug-1915: monthly
  Sep-1915 – Nov-1926: twice-monthly
  Dec-1926 – May-1928: irregular

Related Sites

The Pulp Magazines Project

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Uncovered: The Hidden Art of Girlie Pulps

Online Sources

Online Books (2 issues)



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Snappy Stories [1948] (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1948: FictionMags Index

Publishers: The Wesley Press, Bebington, Liverpool

Snappy Stories [1949] (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1949

Publishers:   Utopian Press, 22 Roland Gardens, London SW7
Pagecounts:   32pp

Snaps

Country: US
Total Issues: 72

Subtitled "A Comic Weekly of Comic Stories by Comic Authors". All stories reprinted from Five Cent Comic Library.

Issues & Index Sources: 11-Oct-1899 – 20-Feb-1901

Publishers:   Frank Tousey, NY
Formats:   8" x 11"
Prices:   5c
Frequency:   weekly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Snap-Shots

Country: UK
Total Issues: 905

Humorous magazine created chiefly from advance proofs and blocks of the American papers Puck, Life, and Judge. Possibly published some Sherlock Holmes parodies.

Issues & Index Sources: 9-Aug-1890 – 19-Nov-1907

Prices: 1d

S1ngularity

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Amateur online magazine which converted into a blogzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-2003 – Apr-2003

Editors: Gabe Chouinard

The Society of Misfit Stories Presents…

Country: US
Total Issues: 12 (as at Jul-2024)

The Society of Misfit Stories is a home for those wonderful stories that are too long for most magazines but too short for print.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-2019 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: any after Sep-2022)

Publishers: Bards and Sages Publishing



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Society Spanking Stories

Country: France
Total Issues: 3?

Flagellation magazine containing various stories about corporal punishment and a correspondence section on the same. Despite being published in France, this was targeted at a British audience.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s

Publishers: Les Beaux Oeuvres, Establissement H.P., 43 Chaussee d'Antin, Paris
Prices: 2/6d

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Sociopathic Times

Country: Australia

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: Summer 1993 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Editors: Rod Marsden

The Sockdolager

Country: US
Total Issues: 9

A quarterly magazine of short genre fiction, most of it SF or fantasy.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 2015 – Summer 2017

Website: www.sockdolager.net
Editors: Alison Wilgus & Paul Starr

Socko

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s

Publishers:   Paget Publications, 106 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith, London
Prices:   2/6d

Solarpunk Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 15 (as at Jul-2024)

A bimonthly magazine of radically hopeful and optimistic science fiction and fantasy.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan/Feb-2022 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(Missing: #15, May/Jun-2024; any after #15, May/Jun-2024)

Website:   www.solarpunkmagazine.com
Editors:   Justine Norton-Kertson & Brianna Castagnozzi
Formats:   ebook
Prices:   $6.00



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