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Short-lived attempt to merge the gang and love pulp genres.

— Underworld Romances

Publishers: Popular Publications, Inc.; 205 East 42nd Street, New York, NY.

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1931

v1 #1
Nov
v1 #2
Dec

1932
v1 #3
Jan

— Underworld Love Stories

Title changed from Underworld Romances.

Publishers: Popular Publications, Inc.; 205 East 42nd Street, New York, NY.

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1932

v1 #4
Feb

Underworld Stories (about)

Another thin Australian digest, this one seemingly containing only reprint stories. Subtitled “incorporating Crime Story Magazine” even though Crime Story Magazine was being published at the same time. Number of issues published not known.

Publishers: Blue Diamond Publishing Company.

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1953

v5 #1
Jun

Underworlds (about)

Underworlds was launched as a tri-annual paperback magazine that sought “to create a bridge between crime fiction (especially, but not necessarily exclusively, of the noir school) and horror fiction”. It folded after only two issues in two years.

Publishers: Underworlds Magazine; Ridgewood, NY.

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2002

# 1
Dec

2004

# 2
Dec

Variety Detective Magazine:

Promising “12 stories for 10¢”, Variety Detective Magazine only lasted for 8 issues before changing to Lone Wolf Detective Magazine under which it ran for a further 8 years until wartime shortages brought it to an end. The early issues, at least, featured a number of unacknowledged reprints from Detective-Dragnet Magazine under different author names and titles and there are no doubt many more that have not yet been identified.

— Variety Detective Magazine

Publishers: Ace Magazines, Inc.; 29 Worthington Street, Springfield, MA.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
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1938

v1 #1
Aug

v1 #2
Nov

1939

v1 #3
Feb

v1 #4
Apr/May

v2 #1
Jun

v2 #2
Aug

v2 #3
Oct

v2 #4
Dec

— Lone Wolf Detective Magazine

Title changed from Variety Detective Magazine.

Publishers: Ace Magazines, Inc.; 29 Worthington Street, Springfield, MA.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
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1940

v3 #1
Feb

v3 #2
Apr

v3 #3
Jun

v3 #4
Aug

v4 #1
Oct

v4 #2
Dec

1941

v4 #3
Feb

v4 #4
Apr

Vengeance Shorts (about)

Small pamphlet magazines offering “Thrilling Tales of Crime and Punishment” issued toward the end of the Second World War when paper rationing was at its height.

Publishers: Gerald G. Swan, Ltd.

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1945

# 1

1946

# 2

Verdict:

Following the successful launch of Manhunt, the publishers launched a similar magazine as Verdict but it never made a mark in a crowded market and folded after only 4 issues, The same publishers tried again three years later but, again, the magazine folded after a brief run.

— Verdict

Publishers: Flying Eagle Publications, Inc.; 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, NY.

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1953

v1 #1
Jun
v1 #2
Jul
v1 #3
Aug
v1 #4
Sep

— Verdict Crime Detection Magazine

Title changed from Verdict.

Publishers: Secret Life Publications, Inc.; 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, NY, Aug 1956; Flying Eagle Publications, Inc.; 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, NY, Nov 1956.

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1956

v1 #1
Aug

v1 #2
Nov

— Verdict

Title changed from Verdict Crime Detection Magazine, although the full title is still given on the cover.

Publishers: Flying Eagle Publications, Inc.; 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, NY.

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1957
v2 #1
Jan

Verdict (UK) (about)

British reprint edition with the first four issues reprinting from Verdict, the fifth from Manhunt and the remaining three issues from Pursuit.

Publishers: Monthly Magazines, Ltd.; 109 Great Russell Street, London WC1.

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