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The Phantom Detective (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of The Phantom Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (sample issue only)
Publishers:   American News Co., Toronto
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11
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The Phantom Detective (UK)

British reprint edition of The Phantom Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (Missing: all except #4)
Publishers:   Pembertons of Manchester
Formats:   standard pulp
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Phantom Detective Cases

Total Issues: 1?

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War. Second in a loose series with Crime Confessions, Mystery Crime Cases and Dynamic Detective Cases.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1948: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   John Spencer & Co.
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   24pp
Sources:   CookMDE
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Phantom Mystery Magazine (UK)

Total Issues: 9

British reprint edition of The Phantom Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1961 – Apr-1962: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Atlas Publishing, London
Sources:   CookMDE
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Phantoms

Total Issues: 6

Small press fantasy/horror fiction magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1996 – May-1997: Miller/Contento

Phantom Suspense-Mystery Magazine (Australia)

Total Issues: 6 (at least)

Australian crime magazine reprinting from American magazines such as Manhunt Detective Story Monthly, Pursuit Detective Story Magazine and Hunted Detective Story Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   The Original Novels Foundation, 149 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
Pagecounts:   116pp
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Phenomena

Subtitled "The Literary Magazine for Supernatural & Horror Enthusiasts". "A strange mixture of fantasy fiction, New Age twaddle, and Hollywood celebrity worship".

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1983: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Foster Publications, P.O. Box 6783, San Jose, CA 95150-6783.
Formats:   saddle-stapled wide digest (8.5 inches tall by 7 inches wide)
Prices:   $1.75
Pagecounts:   32pp

The Philadelphia Independent

A broadsheet probably inspired in part by the NEW YORK OBSERVER, and containing some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-2002? – 2004: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Mattathias Schwartz
Editors:   Mattathias Schwartz
Formats:   broadsheet
Prices:   50c

Philadelphia Stories

Total Issues: 3 (to Jun-2005)

Subtitled "Fiction/Art/Poetry of the Delaware Valley".

Issues & Index Sources:  Fall 2004 – present: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Carla Spataro
Website:   www.philadelphiastories.org
Editors:   Carla Spataro & Christine Weiser
Formats:   quarto semigloss slick
Prices:   $10 a year
Pagecounts:   20pp
Frequency:   Quarterly

Phoebe: A Journal of the Literary Arts

Phoebe seeks to publish quality writing. Do not send formulaic writing, romance fiction, or greeting card poetry. We welcome experimental writing.

Issues & Index Sources:  ? – present
Publishers:   MSN 2D6, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 (in 2000 - 2002)
Website:   www.gmu.edu/pubs/phoebe/
Email Address:   phoebe@gmu.edu
Formats:   review
Frequency:   twice yearly
Sources:   OHenAwdWeb (in 2002)

The Phoenix [1914]

Total Issues: 18

A successor to The Papyrus.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1914 – Nov-1915
Publishers:   Michael Monahan
Editors:   Michael Monahan
Formats:   digest
Frequency:   monthly

Phoenix [1941]

Subtitled "A magazine for young writers".

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct/Nov-1941 – ?
Publishers:   Cynthia Crawshaw, "Wayside", Ayton, Berwickshire
Editors:   Cynthia Crawshaw (and others)

Phoenix [1946]

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1946 – Autumn 1946
Publishers:   The Furze Press, 121 High Street, Lewes, Sussex
Editors:   Norman Swallow
Prices:   1/6d
Pagecounts:   36pp

Phoenix Novels

Cited by Mike Cook in MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, AND ESPIONAGE MAGAZINES, this is actually a series of mystery novels.

Photo Detective

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1937 – ?
Publishers:   American Almanac Co., 404 N. Wesley Ave., Mount Morris, IL
Frequency:   monthly

Photoplay

One of the best-known of the movie "fan magazines," it carried fiction in its earlier years, principally novelizations of film scripts; by Oct-1957 it was a downmarket big slick with chatty personality pieces on film stars and copious advertising aimed at women (but no fiction).

Issues & Index Sources:  1911 – ?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Macfadden
Frequency:   monthly

Photo-Play Journal

Another movie "fan magazine" which carried fiction in its earlier years, principally novelizations of film scripts.

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1916 – Feb-1921
Publishers:   Philadelphia, PA
Editors:   Ed Roberts


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