Thanks, Richard, for the spadework...indeed, a lot of
magazines were claimimg to be published in Holyoke in the
latter '50s, early '60s, mysteriously.
It was cheap printers, actually. Made sense for them to mail
from Holyoke, as well, therefore for the purposes of post
office they were "published" there.
So, the cheapjack publishers made use of the services of the
cheap printers and mailers/pickup point for the newsstand
distributors. TM
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"Homicide Detective Story Magazine" published only one
issue--September 1956, which had the rather nice contents
that included a John D. MacDonald story and one by William
Campbell Gault.
"Homicide" was published by Everett M. Arnold, Arnold
Magazines, Inc., 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts;
editorial offices 303 Lexington Avenue, New York 16, New
York. It said it was a bimonthly.
The Holyoke, Mass address rang a bell for me, so I pulled
down the invaluable MONTHLY MURDERS (A Checklist and
Chronological Listing of Fiction In The Digest-Size Mystery
Magazines in the United States and England) compiled by
Michael L. Cook.
And guess what, "Homicide Detective Story Magazine" became
"Killers Mystery Story Magazine" with the same addresses in
Mass. and in NYC. Cook lists the
contents for the January 1957 (#3) and March 1957 (#4) issues
which makes me
think there was a November 1956 issue (#2) of either
"Homicide" or
"Killers."
The contents of the two issues do not equal the first
but includes stories by Talmadge Powell, Edward D. Hoch,
Joseph Commings, Charles Fritch and Henry Slesar.
But now the mystery deepens. There are many magazines that
all list as the publishers address Holyoke, Massachusetts. So
many that I must assume that this was the address of the
distributor or some other logical reason for this.
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