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    Detective Romances
    Title changed from Ace Mystery.

    • Publishers:
      • Periodical House, Inc.; 29 Worthington Street, Springfield, MA: Detective Romances

    • Editors:

    Action Detective Magazine    (about)
    Thin digest that ran for at least 46 issues, mainly printing stories by Australian authors, initially with two short stories per issue and later with just a single novelette. Indexing this title is complicated by the fact that multiple issues have been reported with the same issue number but with different contents.

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

    Action Detective Magazine [#14, 1953 (variant 1)] (34pp, digest)
    Details supplied by Tom Lesser. Different issues numbered #14 contain different stories.

    Action Detective Magazine [#14, 1953 (variant 2)] (34pp, digest)
    Details supplied by Tom Lesser. Different issues numbered #14 contain different stories.

    Alcoholman    (about)
    Self-described as a “metaphysical crime series”, Alcoholman only had three official issues, with a fourth produced but never officially distributed, each featuring an installment of the serial “Monster Zipper” about Alcoholman, the “intoxicated detective”.

    • Publishers:
      • Mystery Island; P.O. Box 465, Clarksburg, CA 95612: Alcoholman

    • Editors:

    Alcoholman [#2, Autumn 1998] ed. Nicky Clifton (Mystery Island, $4.99, 24pp, quarto, cover by Mr. Bubba)
    Details supplied by Richard Bleiler. Masthead: Alex Adams, Publisher / Writer / Adventurer; Bradley Mason Hamlin, Writer/Drinker; Devilgirl, Contributing Staff; El Secreto, Contributing Staff; Nicky Clifton, Editor and Interviewer; Nicole Hamlin, Senior Editor; Robert Berry, Website Engineer.

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