Reprint of the March 1950 issue of Famous Detective. Although clearly titled Crack Detective Stories on the cover, the Table of Contents has been masked to read just Detective. Date based on Atlas advert. Details supplied by Terry Gibbons. |
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Reprint of the July 1949 (US) issue. Date based on Atlas advert. Details supplied by Terry Gibbons. |
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Partial reprint of the November 1949 issue of Famous Detective, plus a single story from Super-Detective. Date based on Atlas advert. Details supplied by Terry Gibbons. |
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Title changed from Crack Detective Stories (UK). |
Issue not indexed. |
Partial reprint of the June 1950 (US) issue. |
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Partial reprint of the August 1951 (US) issue. Details taken from eBay listing. |
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Issue partially indexed - it is unclear quite which issue this is. |
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Partial reprint of the May 1951 (US) issue. Date based on Atlas advert. Details supplied by Terry Gibbons. |
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Partial reprint of the August 1950 (US) issue. |
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Partial reprint of the May 1953 (US) issue. |
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Partial reprint of the February 1953 (US) issue, plus one item from elsewhere. |
Reprint of the February 1954 (US) issue, plus a single story from Smashing Detective. Details supplied by John Eggeling. |
Reprint of the November 1953 (US) issue, plus a single item from elsewhere. |
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Reprint of the June 1954 (US) issue. Date based on Atlas advert. Details supplied by Terry Gibbons. |
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--- see under Swan American Mags. |
Short-lived experiment containing “current best-sellers” digested by the best-selling Craig Rice “for smooth, speedy reading of your favourite mystery writers”. It only lasted for two issues. |
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The Craig Rice Mystery Digest contained four abridged novels and, although in digest form, was really an anthology issued as #12 in the “Bonded Collection”. In effect, it served as a trial balloon for Craig Rice Crime Digest which was to be launched later in the year. |
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--- see under John Creasey Mystery Magazine. |
Really a gangster magazine with the atmosphere of a 40s pulp. Old-time writers G.T. Fleming-Roberts and Robert Sidney Bowen appeared alongside newcomers Harlan Ellison and Edward D. Hoch. |
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