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--- see under Snappy Romances.

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1969

v7 #3
Jul

Real Confessions (about)

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1937

v1 #1
Mar

Oct

1938

Mar

Jul

Real Detective Tales: (about)

Real Detective Tales is one of the most elusive of the early detective pulps. It began in late 1922 under the name Detective Tales publishing indifferent mystery and detective stories, but by mid-1924 the publisher, Rural Publications, had run into difficulty so the magazine was sold to Real Detective Tales, Inc. who changed its name, first to Real Detective Tales and then to Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories. By this point it had acquired an interesting stable of authors including Seabury Quinn, George Allan England and Miriam Allen deFord. It ran for six years under this latter title (mainly on a monthly basis) but gradually during 1931 transformed into a non-fiction magazine called Real Detective, although fiction continued to appear into 1934 at least. It is not currently known exactly when the last issue containing any fiction appeared. For most of the period it was a large (8.25" x 11.25") pulp, with a single issue (March 1923) as a regular pulp and a handful of issues in 1923 as an even larger (9" x 12") pulp.

— Detective Tales

Publishers: Rural Publishing Corp.; 854 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
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1922

v1 #1
Oct 1
v1 #2
Oct 16
v1 #3
Nov 1 v1 #4
Nov 16/Dec 15
1923

v2 #1
Feb
v2 #2
Mar
v2 #3
Apr/May
v2 #4
May/Jun

v2 #5
Jul/Aug

v2 #6
Sep v3 #1
Oct v3 #2
Nov
v3 #3
Dec/Jan ’24

1924

v3 #4
Feb v4 #1
Mar
v4 #2
Apr

— Real Detective Tales

Title changed from Detective Tales.

Publishers: Rural Publishing Corp.; 854 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL, May 1924; Real Detective Tales, Inc.; 800 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL, Jun 1924 – Dec 1924.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
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1924

v4 #3
May
v4 #4
Jun v5 #1
Jul v5 #2
Aug
v5 #3
Sep/Oct

v5 #4
Nov
v6 #1
Dec