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Prison Stories

Total Issues: 6

A highly specialised Harold Hersey title focussing on the world of convicts, ex-convicts, and those about to become convicts.

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1930 – May/Jun-1931: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Good Story Magazine Co. (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c (last issue 25c)
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Private Confessions

Issues & Index Sources:  Aug-1957 – ?
Publishers:   Four Star Publications

Private Detective (Stories)

Total Issues: 134

Private Detective Stories appeared in mid-1937, about three years after the first of the spicy magazine lines - Spicy Detective - and came from the same publisher - Trojan Publishing. The magazines were much the same - it has been said that "Private Detective Stories was Spicy Detective with less decorative covers and some, but not much, of the psychopathology left out". It ran for 134 issues over a period of 13 years, in the latter months (from Sep-1949) adding two comic strips to the mix and dropping the word "Stories" from the title.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1937 – Dec-1950: Pulp Magazine Index 1
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Trojan Publishing Corp., 2242 Grove St., Chicago, IL, later 125 E. 46th St., New York, NY. (Changed to Trojan Magazines, Inc., with first 1948 issue.)
Editors:   M.R. Bindamin; Adolphe Barreaux
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c at start
Pagecounts:   128pp
Frequency:   mostly monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, CookMDE
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Private Detective (Canada)

This magazine has no direct relationship to the Trojan publication from the US of the same title. Some issues are direct reprints from that magazine, while other reprints stories from magazines such as Detective Yarns, Double-Action Gang, Hooded Detective and Crack Detective.

Continued after March 1944 under the same title as a true crime magazine.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1941 – Mar-1944: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Superior
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   Pulpster11, CookMDE
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Private Detective (UK)

British reprint edition of Private Detective.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950: Crime Fiction Index (in progress) (sample issues only)
Publishers:   Thorpe & Porter, Leicester
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   CookMDE
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Private Detective Cases

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s

Private Detective Stories [2007]

Total Issues: 2 (to Jul-2007)

A short-lived magazine reprinting from a number of pulps.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-2007 – present: Fictionmags Website
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Pulp Tales Press; Rialto, CA
Website:   www.pulpvillepress.com
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $10.95
Pagecounts:   80pp
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Private Eye

Satirical paper.

Issues & Index Sources:  25-Oct-1961 – present
Publishers:   8 Carlisle St., London
Editors:   Richard Ingrams, Ian Hislop
Frequency:   fortnightly

Private Eye [1953]

Total Issues: 2

Private Eye featured stories of hoodlums and small-time crooks, private investigators and the police, and some stories with surprie endings. Despite containing a good selection of contemporary crime-adventure and mystery stories by well-known authors, the magazine folded after only two issues, publishing material that was too little different from so many others.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jul-1953 – Dec-1953: Monthly Murders
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Future Publications (John Raymond)

Editors

  Jul-1953: Stephen Bond
  Dec-1953: John Vincent

Formats

  digest

Prices

  35c

Pagecounts

  152pp

Sources

  UltGuide, CookMDE
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Private Eye [1959]

Listed, but not indexed, in MDE - probably same as the mens magazine {Private Eye Illustrated}.

Private Eye Detective Tales

see under New All-Action Stories

Private Eye Illustrated

Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1959 – Apr-1960?
Publishers:   Cal-York Features Inc., 24 W 45th St., New York, NY
Sources:   MansWorld

Private Eye Library

A crime-fiction "library" series. Could be considered an adult publication.

Issues & Index Sources:  1963 – 1964
Publishers:   C. Arthur Pearson
Pagecounts:   68pp
Frequency:   2 per month

Private Investigator Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 2

The magazine featured Michael Avallone's well-known detective Ed Noon (and was originally to be called Ed Noon's Mystery Magazine). It folded after only two issues because of distribution problems.

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1956 – Spring 1957: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)
Publishers:   Republic Features Syndicate Inc., 39 W 55th St., New York, NY
Editors:   Michael Avallone
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Sources:   CookMDE
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The Prize

There was also an annual compilation of the monthly issues which in 1884 was priced at 1/6 eg one shilling and sixpence.

Continued as an Annual.

Issues & Index Sources:  Jan-1876 – Dec-1931
Publishers:   Wells Gardner Darton, 2 Paternoster Buildings, London E.C.
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   monthly

Prize Air Pilot Stories

Total Issues: 3

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1929 – Mar-1930

Publishers

  Nov-1929 – Jan-1930: Prize Story Publishers
  Mar-1930: Affiliated Magazines, N.Y.

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Prize Detective Magazine

Total Issues: 4

Published as a companion to Prize Air Pilot Stories and Prize Story Magazine, the magazine offered "Amazing Mysteries", but folded after a mere four issues.

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1929 – Mar-1930: Cook/Miller
Crime Fiction Index (in progress)

Publishers

  Nov-1929 – Feb-1930: Prize Story Publishers, Inc., 404 N. Wesley Avenue, Mt. Morris, IL.
  Mar-1930: Affiliated Magazines, 1133 Broadway, New York, N.Y.

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide
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Prize Ghost Stories

Total Issues: 1

Large size magazine anthology, mostly reprints from Ghost Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  1963: Miller/Contento


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