Magazine Data File

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Magazine Issues

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?

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1959 – Apr-1960?

Publishers: Cal-York Features Inc., 24 W 45th St., New York, NY
Sources: It's a Man's World

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:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Republic Features Syndicate Inc., 39 W 55th St., New York, NY
Editors:   Michael Avallone
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Sources:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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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:	FictionMags Index	(Missing: Nov-1929; Jan-1930)
	Adventure Fiction Index	(Missing: Nov-1929; Jan-1930)

Publishers

Nov-1929 – Jan-1930: Prize Story Publishers, Inc.
Mar-1930: Affiliated Magazines, Inc., 1133 Broadway, New York, NY

Formats

standard pulp

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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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:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

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

Formats

standard pulp

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Prize Ghost Stories

Total Issues: 1

Large size magazine anthology, mostly reprints from Ghost Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 1963:

Science Fiction Index


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Prize Sea Stories

Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1964

Publishers: Macfadden-Bartell
Sources: It's a Man's World


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Prize Story Magazine

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1928 – Feb-1930?:

General Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues after Oct-1929)

Publishers

Aug-1928 – Dec-1929?: Prize Story Publishers, Inc., 33 West 60th Street, NY
Feb-1930: Affiliated Magazines, Inc., 1133 Broadway, New York, NY

Formats

bedsheet

Sources

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Western

Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1946:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   H. C. Blackerby, Holyoke, Mass.
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Procyon

Total Issues: 5

Fanzine that published some fiction by Brian Stableford.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1975 – Jun-1978

Editors: John Collick

Prof. Stone Adventures

Total Issues: 3

A cover was designed for a third issue (July 2008) but possibly renamed as Thrilling Adventures.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-2007 – Mar-2008:

Adventure Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Publishers:   Wild Cat Books
Editors:   Ron Hanna
Formats:   paperback
Prices:   $10.00
Pagecounts:   64pp


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Progress

Issues & Index Sources: 1932 – ?

Publishers: Street & Smith

Prohibited Matter

Total Issues: 10

Essentially a horror fiction fanzine, and while all the stories had an element of horror some tended more towards crime or science fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1992 – May 1999

Publishers:   Rod Marsden & Dan Boyd, P.O. Box 19, Spit Junction, NSW
Editors:   Rod Marsden
Related Sites:   ZineWiki

Pro Se Presents

Total Issues: 20

Originally an umbrella title for Fantasy & Fear, Peculiar Adventures and Masked Gun Mystery, Pro Se Presents... was launched as a replacement for all three in August 2011.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-2011 – Winter/Spring 2014:

Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers:   ProSe Productions, Batesville, Arkansas
Website:   prose-press.com/pro-se-presents
Editors:   Barry Reese
Formats:   trade paperback
Frequency:   monthly (to Mar-2013) then quarterly



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Prospect [1943]

'Little' magazine of modern verse, criticism and short stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 1943 – ?

Publishers:   Claremont Press, 17 Bromwich Road, Worcester
Editors:   Edward Toeman, David West, Gladys Keighley, H.F. Bradley
Prices:   1/6d
Frequency:   twice yearly