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The Pocket Magazine [1930]

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Dec-1930: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Gilbert Patten Corporation
Editors:   S.W. Jenkins
Formats:   pocketbook
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide

Pocket Man

Total Issues: 230+

Offshoot from Man with the same mix of pin-ups, cartoons, features and fiction, it was effectively a replacement for Man Junior when that title shifted to full-size format.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1954 – 1973?
Publishers:   K.G. Murray, Sydney
Formats:   digest
Related Sites:   www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/man.html

Pocket Reader Series

Total Issues: 31?

A series of small paperbacks that are variously listed as anthologies or magazines. Contents of issues varied between detective, romance and westerns, at least. The detective issues were entitled Detective Tales and mainly reprinted stories from the Popular Publications magazine of the same name and Dime Detective, leading it to be listed sometimes as a British reprint edition of the former magazine.

The issues ran from #101 to #130 at least, and are as follows:
 101, Detective Tales, 1947?
 102, Western Stories, nd
 103, Romance Story, nd
 104, Detective Tales, 1948
 105, Western Stories, 1948
 106, Romance Story, 1948
 107, Detective Tales, 1948
 108, Western Stories, 1948
 109, Romance Stories, 1948
 110, Detective Tales, 1948
 111, Western Stories, 1948
 112, Romance Stories, 1948
 113, Detective Tales, 1949
 114, Western Stories, 1949
 115, Romance Stories, 1949
 116, Western Stories, 1949
 117, Detective Tales, 1949
 118, Western Stories, 1949
 119, Detective Tales, 1949
 120, Western Stories, 1949
 121, Romance Stories, 1949
 122, Western Stories, 1950?
 123, Detective Tales, 1950
 124, Western Stories, 1950
 125, Detective Tales, 1950
 126, Western Stories, 1950
 127, Romance Stories, 1950
 128, Detective Tales, 1950
 129, Western Stories, 1950?
 130, Romance Stories, 1950?

Issues & Index Sources:  1947 – 1950?: Monthly Murders (Missing: #112, #115, #120, #121)
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   T.V. Boardman, 14 Cockspur St., London, SW1
Editors:   Tom Boardman
Formats:   small digest (4" x 5.5") for #101 - #112; then digest (4.75" x 6.75")
Prices:   6d
Pagecounts:   96pp (#101 - #112); 64pp (#113 - #122); 96pp (#123 - #130)
Sources:   CookMDE
Issue Checklist

Pocket Series

Total Issues: 50

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s
Publishers:   Pocket Editions
Formats:   pocket library

Pocket Sketch

Men's humour magazine that published several pieces of fiction in each issue.

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1940 – ?
Formats:   9" x 6"
Prices:   25c
Pagecounts:   94pp

Pocket Western Magazine [1937]

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1937 – Oct-1937: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   pocketbook
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, DinWest

Pocket Western Magazine [1950]

Total Issues: 2

Issues & Index Sources:  Sep-1950 – Nov-1950: Fictionmags Website (Missing: Nov-1950)
Publishers:   Trojan Magazines
Formats:   Pocketbook
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Sources:   AHGTTP, DinWest

Pocket Wonder Library

Total Issues: 12?

Issues & Index Sources:  1946: Fictionmags Website
Publishers:   P. M. Productions
Formats:   60 x 91 mm
Pagecounts:   32pp

Poker Chips

see under The White Elephant

Polemic: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas

Polemic published symposia, articles, poetry, graphics, and the occasional story. Included a couple of woodcuts by Roy Lichtenstein.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Polemic Society, 302 Thwing Hall, Western Reserve University, Cleveland 6, Ohio

Police Casebook Annual

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1956
Publishers:   Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY
Frequency:   annual

Police Detective

Total Issues: 1

One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War. In a loose series with Crime Detective, Homicide Detective, Racket-Buster Detective and Crime Investigator.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1949: Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Hamilton & Co
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   9d
Pagecounts:   64pp
Issue Checklist

Police Detective (US)

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources

  1946 – ?

Publishers

  in 1940s: Skye Publishing Co., 270 Park Ave., New York, NY, 60 W 46th St., New York, NY, and Louisville, KY
  in 1970s: Rostam Publishing Inc., P.O. Box 1374, New York, NY

Frequency

  bimonthly

Police Detective Annual

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Publishers:   The Type Shack, P.O. Box 48, Rockville Center, NY
Frequency:   quarterly

Police Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1945 – ?
Publishers:   Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY
Frequency:   bimonthly
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Police Detective Yearbook

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1958
Publishers:   Jalart House Inc., P.O. Box 175, Port Chester, NY
Frequency:   annual

Police Dragnet Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  1955 – ?
Publishers:   Brookside Enterprises Inc., 55W 42nd St., New York, NY
Frequency:   bimonthly


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