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    True Gangster Stories (UK) (1939)    (about)
    British reprint edition of True Gangster Stories.

    • Publishers:
      • Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.; 18 Bride Lane, London EC4: True Gangster Stories (UK)

    True Gangster Stories (UK) (1942)    (about)
    British reprint edition of True Gangster Stories.

    • Publishers:
      • Gerald G. Swan, Ltd.; 37-38-39 Burne Street, Marylebone, London NW1: True Gangster Stories (UK)

    True Justice Stories [n.d. (c 1950)] (Hamilton & Co., 1/-, quarto)
    • Railroad-Tower Murder · Anon. · ar
    • Murder—Or Suicide? · Anon. · ar
    • Slaying on Highway 16 · Ruth Reynolds · ar
    • Death Drives a Black Sedan · Anon. · ar
    • The Case of the Gentle Coed · Anon. · ar
    • Killer in Widow’s Weeds · Ruth Reynolds · ar
    • Double-Identity Mystery · Anon. · ar
    • The Killer Who Wouldn’t Learn His Lesson · Ruth Reynolds · ar
    • Justice and the Netherton Case · Anon. · ar
    • Love + Dynamite = Murder · Anon. · ar

    True Love Affairs [v1 #1, Jan.-Feb. 1940] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 15¢, pulp)
    Details taken from Table of Contents.
    • 6 · May We Present— · Anon. · cl
    • 7 · An Editorial · Allie Lowe Miles · ed
    • 8 · Breach-of-Promise Bride · Anon. · ts
    • 18 · The Man Who Can Make Me Fall in Love · Ann Sheridan · ar
    • 20 · My Wife’s Lover · Anon. · ts
    • 27 · Betrayed by Ignorance · Anon. · ts
    • 36 · The Promise I Didn’t Keep · Anon. · ts
    • 42 · Confession of a Photographer’s Model · Anon. · ts
    • 52 · I Married a Bully · Anon. · ts
    • 61 · What Should I Do? · Allie Lowe Miles · cl
    • 62 · Victim of a Talent Scout · Anon. · ts
    • 72 · Alternate Wife · Anon. · ts
    • 82 · Seven Men and a Girl · Anon. · ts
    • 98 · The Love I Denied Him · Anon. · ts
    • 120 · Hitch Your Wagon to a Star · Ruha · cl
    • 126 · A Woman’s Job Is Love · [The Editor] · ed

    True Love and Romance [v38 #6, January 1943] ed. Hilda Wright (Macfadden Publications, 10¢, 72pp, quarto, cover by Robert Keene Studios)
    • 3 · Around Town Topics · [Misc.] · ms
    • 4 · Shall We Wait? · [The Readers] · lt
    • 6 · I’ll Never Do It Again · [Misc.] · ms
    • 8 · The Uniform Makes the Man · Anon. · ts
    • 10 · Of Love and Marriage · Anon. · ts
    • 14 · Too Proud for Love · Anon. · ts
    • 18 · Bride of Loneliness · Anon. · ts
    • 22 · No Matter What Happens · Anon. · ts
    • 26 · For All Time · Anon. · ts
    • 30 · Love Can Break Your Heart · Anon. · ts
    • 34 · “I Promise You” · Anon. · ts
    • 38 · When He Comes Back to Me · Anon. · ts
    • 52 · Luscious Meat Dishes from Little Leftovers · Jane Brooks · ms
    • 72 · Monthly Beauty Page: Take Care of Yourself · Anne Chadwick · cl

    True Mystic Confessions    (about)
    True Mystic Confessions featured articles on astrology and dreams but mainly carried fictionalized and sensationalized accounts of nudist camp orgies, drugs and sex crimes. Nearly all of the pieces are anonymous and that is understandable. Many of the stories do have a weird element to them but in general this magazine is only for the completist. The contents of the only known issue are given below.

    • Publishers:
      • Country Press, Inc.; Greenwich CT: True Mystic Confessions

    True Mystic Confessions [#1, 1937] (10¢, 76pp, large)
    • 4 · Murdered by a Sex Mad Play Boy · Anon. · ss
    • 12 · Mystic Adventures Into the Unknown · Norvell · ar
    • 18 · Love Rites of a Nudist Cult · Anon. · ss
    • 24 · My Phantom Mistress · Anon. · ss
    • 27 · Dope Orgies · Anon. · ss
    • 31 · I Want a Man · Anon. · ar
    • 35 · Love Starved at Forty · Anon. · ss
    • 40 · As He Desired Me · Anon. · ss
    • 48 · Youthful Esctacy · Anon. · ss
    • 54 · Her Date with Death · Anon. · ss
    • 60 · I Flew Into the Spirit World · Anon. · ss
    • 64 · What Do Your Dreams Foretell · Anon. · ar
    • 67 · Girl Trap · Anon. · ss

    True Mystic Science    (about)
    True Mystic Science contained articles on astrology, numerology, graphology, mediums, prophecies, famous crimes and unexplained events and various psychic phenomena. R.T.M. Scott was a frequent contributor, Talbot Mundy had an article on Mystic India in the second issue and Otis Adelbert Kline had articles in the second and fifth issues. Arthur J. Burks appeared in the eighth.

    The front covers were photos of some staged mystic scene, the back covers were often reproductions of oil paintings. The issue were numbered and dated as follows: v1 #1, November 1938, v1 #2, December 1938, v1 #3, January 1939, v1 #4, March 1939, v2 #1, April 1939, v2 #2, May 1939, v2 #3, June 1939, v2 #4, July 1939. A ninth issue was scheduled to appear but never did according to Chester Cuthbert who was to have an article appear in it. The contents of the first issue are listed below.

    • Publishers:
      • Continental News; Minneapolis, MN: True Mystic Science

    • Editors:

    True Mystic Science [v1 #1, November 1938] ed. R. T. Maitland Scott, Jr. (Continental News; Minneapolis, MN, 25¢, 84pp, large)
    Cover depicts young woman with long blonde hair staring down at her bosom (bodice is only slightly low-cut) at the large human eye which has opened thereon); she smiles in a mystically gratified manner. Table of Contents also promises “Mystic India Speaks” via Talbot Mundy in the December issue, out November 1st.
    • 4 · Untold Facts Behind “Scientific American’s” Psychic Probe! · Austin C. Lescarbourn · ar
    • 8 · His Mystic Miracles Solved 100 Crimes · Walter Stuart · ar
    • 12 · Is Roosevelt Psychic? · Major R. T. M. Scott · ar
    • 14 · A Demonic Power Ruled D’Annunzio · Louis Norton Sarbach · ar
    • 16 · Laboratory Tests Show Phantom Wonders · Dr. Hereward Carrington · ar
    • 20 · In the Land of Living Ghosts · Sylvan Muldoon · ar
    • 24 · Nazidom’s Rasputin · Anon. · ar
    • 28 · Abraham Lincoln Died Twice · Henry T. Sperry · ar
    • 30 · Looking at Your Fate (Crystal Gazing Explained) · Miriam Fels · cl
    • 32 · The Valentino Death Prophecy · George Wehner · ar
    • 35 · Wheel of Life (Astrological Character Analysis) · Dr. Gustave Ekstrom · cl
    • 36 · These Four Celebrities Were Born with “Lion’s Paws” · Nellie Simmons Meier · ar
    • 38 · Occultism Guides Many Movie Stars · William Frank · ar
    • 41 · Seeress of Disaster · Anon. · ar
    • 42 · Science Now Proves the Supernatural · John J. O’Neill · ar
    • 46 · Letters from Our Readers (True Psychic Experiences) · [Misc.] · cl
    • 49 · The Third Eye · Genevieve Grahame · ar; “Cover Story”
    • 50 · This Autumn’s Lucky People (Astrology Feature) · Anon. · ar
    • 52 · Destiny’s Queen of Crimson Doom · Leslie Grant · ar
    • 54 · The Planets Foretell Your Chances of Love and Marriage This Fall (Astrology) · Grant Lewi · cl
    • 56 · Death Was Their Shadow · Howard Stephenson · ar
    • 59 · Wild Talents · Charles Fort · ms (r)
    • 60 · Handwriting Secrets Revealed (Special Offer) · John H. Geller · cl
    • 63 · $1,000,000 Psychic Experiences Contest (Rules and Instructions) · [Misc.] · cl
    • 64 · Most Dramatic Seance Ever Known · Anna Dickerman · ar
    • 66 · Spirits Rule Cannibal Land · Charles C. Miller · ar
    • 70 · Arthur J. Roberts Explained · Sterling Wright · ar
    • 75 · Numbers Tell Your Future (Numerology) · [Misc.] · cl
    • 79 · Your Solar Forecast (Special Astrology Offer) · [Misc.] · cl
    • bc. · [Pluto (presumably) seated on a throne in some gloomy yellow-green world (presumably Hades), with Cerberus in front of him (all three heads looking rather cute and petting-worthy, and with tail looking about to wag) and two vultures seated on the back of the throne] · Anon. · cv

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