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    True Story Magazine [#11, September 1923] (Hutchinson, 1/-, 160pp, standard slick)
    Details supplied by Mike Ashley.
    • 7 · “I’m So Sorry!” · Bernarr MacFadden · ed
    • 9 · Confessions of a Selfish Wife · Anon. · ts
    • 21 · Babs, Her Story · Anon. · ts
    • 25 · Duty or Death? · Anon. · ts
    • 26 · All for Love · Anon. · ts
    • 30 · The Ghurka Knife · Anon. · ts
    • 37 · The Clever Devil · Anon. · ts
    • 39 · Ways That Are Dark [Part 1 of 2] · Anon. · sl
    • 48 · Mismated · Anon. · ts
    • 59 · The Adventures of an International Spy · Anon. · ts
    • 69 · “The World is Like That!” · Anon. · ts
    • 77 · The Great Sacrifice · Anon. · ts
    • 91 · The Youthful Mrs. Perrot · Anon. · ar
    • 96 · The Potion · Anon. · ts
    • 101 · The Moving Finger · Anon. · ts
    • 110 · A Red Night · Anon. · ts
    • 115 · On a Bridge at Midnight · Anon. · ts
    • 125 · My Friend’s Wife · Anon. · ts
    • 135 · Her Fight for a Husband · Anon. · ts
    • 145 · An Awful Little Devil · Anon. · ts
    • 150 · Over the Precipice · Anon. · ts
    • 152 · Death and “Mrs. Crump” · Anon. · ts

    True Story Magazine [#125, April 1933] (MacFadden Magazines, 6d, 72pp, quarto slick)
    Details supplied by Mike Ashley.
    • 5 · Dynamic Health in Romance · Bernarr MacFadden · ed
    • 9 · Because She Wanted Children · Anon. · ts
    • 14 · His Slave Woman · Anon. · ts
    • 19 · I Wanted to Be Free [Part ? of ?] · Anon. · sl
    • 22 · I Was a Child Wife · Anon. · ts
    • 26 · The Man I Sent Away · Anon. · ts
    • 31 · Too Easy for Him · Anon. · ts

    True Story Magazine [#127, June 1933] (MacFadden Magazines, 6d, 72pp, quarto slick)
    Details supplied by Mike Ashley.
    • 5 · Love Never Grows Old · Bernarr MacFadden · ed
    • 9 · The Road to Madness · Anon. · ts
    • 17 · Gossip Started It All · Anon. · ts
    • 21 · Ashamed of His In-Laws · Anon. · ts
    • 23 · The Mystery of the Woman I Loved · Anon. · ts
    • 26 · Last Will and Testament · Anon. · ts
    • 28 · I Wanted to Be Free [Part ? of ?] · Anon. · sl
    • 30 · Up from the Swamps · Anon. · ts

    True Story Magazine [#315, February 1949] (The Argus Press, 1/-, 48pp, 10.7"x7.5")
    • 2 · You Must Have a Dream · Anon. · ss
    • 6 · The Barometer of Love · Anon. · ss
    • 10 · When Love Comes Twice [Part ?] · Anon. · sl
    • 15 · Kiss Me Good-bye · Anon. · ss
    • 18 · The Pilot’s Special Guest · Anon. · ss
    • 23 · Film Notes · Anon. · cl
    • 26 · Essential for Good Cooking · Ann Rawlinson, L.C.A. · ms
    • 28 · Not-so-Young Mother · Joan Littlewood · cl
    • 30 · I’ll Never Forget · [The Readers] · lt

    True Strange (Stories)
    True Strange may be a revival of True Weird. They share the same publisher and followed one upon another. True Strange also reprinted material from True Weird. True Strange was a large magazine published by Weider Periodicals Inc., 16 Hopkins Ave., Jersey City, New Jersey. William R. Shelton edited the first five issues and Allen Camelli edited the last two. It was subtitled “incredible...weird... and factual.” There were a total of seven issues with one short story in four of the issues. Other authors with material that may be of interest are: Arthur J. Burks (5-6/57); M.E. Counselman (10/56, 3/57, 10/57, 2/58); Jules De Grandon (3/57); Theophile Gautier (3/57); R. DeWitt Miller (8/57).

    The magazine dealt with sensationalized accounts of myths, legends, and stories. Unlike True Weird, True Strange often tied their articles to the famous and the infamous: Stalin, Hitler, Ilse Koch, Houdini, Ingrid Bergman, etc. The covers also emphasized the famous with Elvis Presley, James Dean, Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren and others appearing. The magazine would be of marginal interest to collectors. The contents of the first issue and information on the other issues follows:

    True Strange (Stories) [v1 #4, August 1957] (35¢, 84pp, large)
    • 20 · The Ghost · Guy de Maupassant · ss Famous Modern Ghost Stories, ed. Dorothy Scarborough, Putnam 1921; translated from the French (“Apparition”, Le Gaulois, April 4, 1883).

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