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The Pocket Magazine [1930]

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1930:

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)	(Missing: #112, #115, #120, #121)

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



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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