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Best Sports [v2 #3, March 1939] (15¢, 130pp, pulp) Details taken from eBay listing. The Fighting Heart · Harold F. Cruickshank · ss Pigskin Fury · Lawrence Perry · ss The Kid from Poverty Row · Anthony Field · ss Pitchers and Ponies · Johnny Lawson · ss Glory for Castoff Basketeers · Nelson S. Bond · ss Horsehide Harmony · J. J. Meany · ss The Glove of Mike · James W. Egan · ss A Matter of Course · Colbertt Lewis · ss Hard—Like Steel · Richard L. Hobart · ss Five in Greek · Ross Russell · ss

Best Sports [v2 #4, June 1939] (25¢, 130pp, pulp) Details taken from eBay listing. The Hot Corner · Jack Daley · ss Glory for a Record-Buster · W. H. Leonard · ss Clouting Fool · Paul Carney · ss Basket Bombardment · Roe Richmond · ss Big League Graveyard · Walt Clark · ss The Non-Stop Fight · Carl Shepard · ss The Riding Kid · Sam Carson · ss Fielder’s Folly · W. H. Temple · ss Tennis Trickery · Curtis Bishop · ss Set for the Kill · H. L. Oram · ss

Best Sports [v2 #5, December 1939] Issue not found. Need Contents

Best Sports [v2 #1, October 1947] (Stadium Publishing Corp., pulp) Details supplied by Monte Herridge from Table of Contents. 4 · One-Man Team from Texas · C. Paul Jackson · nv; baseball. 20 · Hell on Wheels · John Lockhart · ss; auto racing. 29 · Quarterback on the Mound · E. E. Halleran · ss; baseball. 36 · The Touchdown Marvels · Giles A. Lutz · ss; football. 45 · The Sports Reporter · Charlie James · cl 46 · The Sultan of Swat · Walt Munson · ar 48 · Base-Hits Mean Bullets! · Theodore J. Roemer · nv; baseball. 59 · With Haymakers and Hate · Jerry Tolan · ss; boxing. 68 · Pennant Politician · J. J. Meany · nv; baseball. 79 · Cut Loose with That Cannonball! · Wm. J. Jackson · ss; tennis. 84 · The Big-League Busher · Orbe Bubisk · nv; baseball.

Best Sports [v2 #2, January 1948] Issue not found. Need Contents

Best Sports [v2 #3, May 1948] Issue not found. Need Contents

Best Sports [v2 #4, September 1948] Issue not found. Need Contents

Best Sports [v2 #5, February 1950] (Atlas News Co., pulp) Details supplied by Monte Herridge from Table of Contents. 5 · Sports Throbs · Gerard Garrett · cl 6 · Pivot, Feint, Take It Over! · Harrison Hendryx · na; football. 21 · Punches Are the Payoff · Richard Brister · ss; boxing. 30 · All Signs Off! · Nelson A. Hutto · ss; baseball. 40 · The Giant Killer · Russell Gray · nv; basketball. 52 · Baseball’s Oldest Tradition... Ladies Day! · Herb Rogoff · ms 54 · Substitute for a Diamond King · Bill Erin · na; baseball. 70 · Ice in His Heart · Humphrey Jones · nv; hockey. 79 · No Hoop Marvels Wanted! · William Heuman · nv; basketball. 89 · Go Away at the Wire! · Norman Ober · ss; horse racing. 104 · Hellion at Half · Johnny Lawson · nv; football. 115 · Highlights in the World of Sports · Herb Rogoff · ms 116 · Blood on His Fists · Ted Stratton · na; boxing.

Best Sports [v2 #6, November 1950] ed. Robert O. Erisman (Stadium Publishing Corp., 25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders) Details supplied by John Locke. 6 · Hot-Corner Hotshot · Robert Turner · nv 30 · Hick Means Hayhmaker! · H. Wieand Bowman · ss 40 · Brother Battery · C. Paul Jackson · ss 47 · Rage Ride · Giles A. Lutz · ss 56 · Hate on the Mound · Bill Erin · ss 65 · Cannonball Comeback · Humphrey Jones · ss 75 · The Devil Snake · Paul W. Fairman · ss; off-trail, hunting. 84 · Diamond in the Rough · John Wilson · nv 100 · Sports Action Camera · Herb Rogoff · pi; roller derby. 102 · Sports Throbs · Gerard Garrett · cl 106 · Golf Is a Game · W. P. Brothers · ss 110 · Quadruple Threat Man · Milton Lesser · vi 114 · The Pitching Fool · Norman Ober · ss

Best Sports [v2 #7, February 1951] ed. Robert O. Erisman (Stadium Publishing Corp., 25¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Norman Saunders) Details supplied by Mike Russell. 6 · Pass ’Em Blind · Bill Erin · na; football. 22 · This Rube’ll Be Ready! · Richard Brister · ss; boxing. 31 · The King of Swap · C. Paul Jackson · ss; baseball. 38 · Blazing Blades · Barry Kevin · ss; hockey. 48 · Last Chance for Glory · Don Kingery · nv; baseball. 59 · Basketball Bum · David C. Cooke · ss; basketball. 67 · Hot Rod Hell · Reynolds Phillips · nv; automobile racing. 78 · Satan in Center · Ted Stratton · nv; baseball. 98 · Sports Action Camera · Herb Rogoff · pi [Jim Thorpe]; a look at athlete Jim Thorpe. 102 · Sports Throbs · Gerard Garrett · cl 104 · Sports Flashback · Herb Rogoff · cl; on the July 4, 1912 lightweight championship boxing match between Wolgast and Rivers. 105 · Where There’s Smokey, There’s a Fireball · Martin S. Madancy · ss; baseball. 112 · Big-League Pigskinner · Joe Brennan · na; football. 127 · Best Sports Gems: Great Moments in the Life of Sports Stars · Marv Karp & Seth Kantor · cl 129 · Sports Bull Session · Robert O. Erisman & Arthur Lane · cl

Best Sports [v2 #8, May 1951] Issue not found. Need Contents

Best Sports [v2 #9, August 1951] Issue not found. Need Contents

Best Sports [v2 #10, December 1951] Issue not found. Need Contents

Best Stories    (about)

Best Stories [v1 #11, January 1947] (B. E. C. Publishing Company, 25¢, 50pp, digest) Details taken from eBay listing. Muddy Gun · John D. MacDonald · ss Oofty Goofty · Arthur Hargraves, Jr. · ss A New Year’s Eve Confession · Hermann Sudermann · ss (r) Tempest in December · Marian Stearns Curry · ss Backfire in the Ozarks · Roy Wheeler · ss Valley of the Snow · Robert Andersson · ss

Best Stories [v2 #3, May 1947] (B. E. C. Publishing Company, 25¢, 50pp, digest) Details taken from eBay listing. Atomic Love · Pearl C. Degenhart · ss A Letter for Miss Billy · Michael Crowley · ss The Notched Ears · John D. MacDonald · ss The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer Mar 1843

Best Stories of All Time: Throughout its life this was a reprint magazine similar to The Golden Book, publishing a broad spectrum of material with the strongest influence being initially that of adventure stories. When the name changed to Pioneer Tales the emphasis shifted more toward western stories, with a surprising number of fantastic stories as well.

Clever Truths

Clever Truths [v1 #1, June 1925] Issue not found. Need Contents

Clever Truths [v1 #2, July 1925] Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents She [Part 1 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged.

Clever Truths [v1 #3, August 1925] Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents She [Part 2 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged.

Best Stories of All Time Title changed from Clever Truths.

Best Stories of All Time [v1 #4, September 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane) Details supplied by David Lee Smith. 6 · The Scarlet Letter [Part 1 of 3] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · n. Ticknor & Fields 1850; abridged. 21 · The Reconcelement · John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire · pm (r) 21 · The Flowers · William Brighty Rands · pm (r) 22 · The Accursed House · Émile Gaboriau; translated by E. C. Waggener · ss Short Stories Feb 1893; translated from the French. 24 · Life · Anna Laetitia Barbauld · pm The Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1825 25 · The Pragmatic Sanction · Samuel Merwin · ss McClure’s Sep 1920 31 · Do Tell a Story · Richard H. Little · ms (r) 32 · Among the College Humorists · Anon. · hu (r) 34 · The Broken Cup · Heinrich Zschokke; translated by Parke Godwin · ss (r); from Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke, 1845. 41 · Love · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm The Morning Post Dec 21 1799 42 · She [Part 3 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged. 57 · The Wonders of Training · Anon. · ct (r) 58 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine Feb 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” 67 · I Loved a Lass · George Wither · pm (r) 68 · What They Laugh at in Europe · Anon. · hu (r) 70 · A Carolina Night’s Entertainment · Gouverneur Morris · ss Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1913 75 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake, 1829 1828 80 · Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love · John Dryden · pm The Works of John Dryden, William Miller 1808 81 · A Snapshot at the President · O. Henry · vi Rolling Stones, Doubleday 1912 82 · Kubla Khan · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm Christabel/Kubla Khan/The Pains of Sleep, John Murray 1816 83 · The Ghost · Guy de Maupassant · ss Allouma and Other Tales, Holland Pub. Co. 1895, as “The Spectre”; translated from the French (“Apparition”, Le Gaulois, April 4, 1883). 86 · Radio Be Derned · Anon. · hu (r) 87 · Son of a Sheik · Frank Norris · vi (r) 90 · A Pair of Red Stockings · Pedro Bazan · vi (r) 92 · Clever Truths · Anon. · ms (r)

Best Stories of All Time [v1 #5, October 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 6 · Peter God · James Oliver Curwood · ss Doubleday, Page & Co. 1914 14 · Love · William Shakespeare · pm (r) 15 · The Spectacles · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Dollar Newspaper Mar 27 1844 24 · The Avenger · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss The Popular Magazine Nov 1908 28 · The Sirens’ Song [from The Inner Temple Masque] · William Browne · pm The Works of William Browne, T. Davies 1772 29 · Miss Claiborne Foster, Success · The Inquirer · iv 32 · Among the College Humorists · Anon. · hu 34 · The Scarlet Letter [Part 2 of 3] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · n. Ticknor & Fields 1850; abridged. 50 · The Grand Marriage · Ludovic Halévy · nv (r) 58 · What the Bullet Sang · Bret Harte · pm Harper’s Weekly Aug 26 1876 59 · Lost by a Laugh · Honoré de Balzac · ss Shorter Stories from Balzac, Walter Scott 1890; translated from the French (Autre Étude de Femme, Conard, 1842). 61 · Phillida and Coridon · Nicholas Breton · pm Englands Helicon, ed. John Flasket 1600 62 · What They Laugh at in Europe · Anon. · hu 64 · The Love Quarrel · Agnes Strickland · ss (r) 71 · To His Coy Love · Michael Drayton · pm Poems 1619 72 · The Wedding of Jenny Distaff · Richard Steele · vi (r) 73 · Margarite Sofori · William Ernest Henley · pm (r) 74 · The Item Wasn’t Worth While · Ed Mott · vi (r) 75 · What Three Men Say of Three Women · [Various] · ms 76 · She [Part 4 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged. 91 · Last Days of a Condemned Man · Victor Hugo · ex (r) 96 · Clever Truths · Anon. · ms

Best Stories of All Time [v1 #6, November 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 6 · The Path-Master · Robert W. Chambers · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 20 1901 13 · I Love Your Daughter · Edmond About · ss (r) 20 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart 1844 27 · Without Desire · Pardo Bazán · vi (r) 28 · Among the College Humorists · Anon. · hu 30 · She [Part 5 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged. 46 · A Love Song · Laura Margaret Haley · pm (r) 47 · The Golden Flaw · P. G. Wodehouse · ss McClure’s Mar/Apr 1920 54 · Carmen · Prosper Merimee · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jun 1925; abridged.; translated from the French. 66 · The Vagabond · Feodor Dostoievski · ss (r) 72 · Invictus · William Ernest Henley · pm Book of Verses 1888 73 · What They Laugh at in Europe · Anon. · hu 74 · The Scarlet Letter [Part 3 of 3] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · n. Ticknor & Fields 1850; abridged. 91 · Clever Truths · Anon. · ms

Best Stories of All Time [v2 #1, December 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 6 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 1 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine 1891; abridged. 23 · The Real Santa Claus · Peter B. Kyne · ss Collier’s Dec 25 1915 31 · Forty-Seven Girls and Sally · Earl Derr Biggers · ss The Red Book Magazine May 1913 36 · How Anson Purdy Got His Start · Roy K. Moulton · vi (r) 37 · The Adoring Ones · Pardo Bazán · vi (r) 38 · The Bargain [from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia] · Sir Philip Sidney · pm 1593 39 · What They Laugh at in Europe · Anon. · hu 40 · The Jelly-Bean · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1920 47 · The Wolf · Guy de Maupassant; translated, uncredited · ss The Scrap Book Dec 1907; given as by dé Maupassant in the Table of Contents.; translated from the French (“Le Loup”, Le Gaulois, November 14, 1882). 49 · She [Part 6 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper 1886; abridged. 62 · Among the College Humorists · Anon. · hu 64 · A Christmas Carol [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · ex Chapman & Hall Dec 19 1843 71 · The Unfading Beauty · Thomas Carew · pm Poems 1640 72 · Dorathea · Mrs. Gore · ss (r) 75 · The Vendean Marriage · Jules Janin; translated by Jane G. Cooke · ss Short Stories Oct 1899; translated from the French. 79 · Cavalleria Rusticana · Giovanni Verga · ss Short Story Classics (Foreign), ed. William Patten, P.F. Collier 1907; translated from the Italian (Vita dei Campi, 1880). 82 · Addison Spriggs in Pursuit of Happiness · S. E. Kiser · vi (r) 83 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine Jul 1891 91 · Sepestia’s Lullaby · Robert Greene · pm (r) 92 · Boum-Boum · Jules Claretie; translated by E. H. Du Bois · ss The Scrap Book Jun 1907; translated from the French. 94 · Beauty Bathing · Anthony Munday · pm Englands Helicon, ed. John Flasket 1600, as by Shepherd Tony 95 · Clever Truths · Anon. · ms