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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.

— Double-Action Gang Magazine (first series)

Publishers: Winford Publications, Inc.; 165 Franklin Street, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1936

v1 #1
May

v1 #2
Jul

v1 #3
Sep

v1 #4
Dec

1937

v1 #5
Feb

v1 #6
Apr

— Double-Action Gang Magazine (second series)

Second series with issues renumbered from v1 #1.

Publishers: Winford Publications, Inc.; 2256 Grove Street, Chicago, IL.

— True Gangster Stories

Fiction, despite title. Title changed from Double-Action Gang Magazine.

Publishers: Winford Publications, Inc.; 2256 Grove Street, Chicago, IL.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1939

v2 #4
Oct

Double Detective:

Double Detective ran for five years on a mainly monthly schedule, notching up a total of 41 issues from the original publisher (Frank A. Munsey) plus a single, later, issue from Popular Publications. It is chiefly remember today for introducing the pulp-hero character known as “The Green Lama”. In between the two runs, Munsey launched Love-Crime Detective as a replacement, but it only lasted for five issues.

— Double Detective

Publishers: The Frank A. Munsey Company; 280 Broadway, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1937

v1 #1
Nov
v1 #2
Dec

1938
v1 #3
Jan
v1 #4
Feb
v1 #5
Mar

v1 #6
May
v2 #1
Jun
v2 #2
Jul
v2 #3
Aug
v2 #4
Sep
v2 #5
Oct
v2 #6
Nov
v3 #1
Dec

1939
v3 #2
Jan
v3 #3
Feb
v3 #4
Mar
v3 #5
Apr
v3 #6
May
v4 #1
Jun
v4 #2
Jul
v4 #3
Aug
v4 #4
Sep
v4 #5
Oct
v4 #6
Nov
v5 #1
Dec

1940
v5 #2
Jan
v5 #3
Feb
v5 #4
Mar
v5 #5
Apr
v5 #6
May
v6 #1
Jun
v6 #2
Jul
v6 #3
Aug
v6 #4
Sep
v6 #5
Oct

v6 #6
Dec

1941

v7 #1
Feb

v7 #2
Apr

v7 #3
Jun

v7 #4
Aug

v7 #5
Oct

— Love-Crime Detective

Title replaced Double Detective. Fiction although billed as true.

Publishers: The Frank A. Munsey Company; 280 Broadway, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1942

v1 #1
Aug v1 #2
Sep
v1 #3
Oct
v1 #4
Nov v1 #5
Dec

— Double Detective

Original title relaunched by new publisher.

Publishers: All-Fiction Field, Inc.; 2256 Grove Street, Chicago, IL.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1943

v7 #6
Mar

Down & Out: The Magazine (about)

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

2017

v 1 #1

v 1 #2

2018

v1 #3
Mar

v1 #4
Aug

Downtown Detective (about)

Thin Australian digest, mainly printing original stories by Australian authors.

Publishers: Action Comics Pty. Ltd.; 14 Bond Street, Sydney.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

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