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    Leisure Detective
    Thin digest that ran for at least 54 issues, mainly printing stories by Australian authors, initially with two short stories per issue and later with just a single novelette.

    • Publishers:
      • Action Comics Pty. Ltd.; 14 Bond Street, Sydney: Leisure Detective.

    Leisure Detective [#11, 195?] (8d, 34pp, digest)
    Details supplied by Tom Lesser.
    • 1 · Murder in the Family · Alan Yates · nv
    • 25 · Bullets for Blackmail · R. Gunn · ss

    Leisure Detective [#23, 195? (variant 1)] (2/-, digest)
    Different issues numbered #23 contain different stories.

    Leisure Detective [#23, 195? (variant 2)] (Action Comics, 8d, digest)
    Different issues numbered #23 contain different stories.
    Details taken from AustLit.

    Leisure Westerns:
    Thin Australian digest. Very little firm information is known about this title. It was published by H. John Edwards, initially under its own name, changing to Action Comics somewhere between #72 & #79 (c. 1953). Similarly the name started as Leisure Westerns but changed to Leisure Western somewhere between #86 & #95 (c. 1954).

    Dating is even more difficult as none of the issues are dated. Online sources suggest that the unnumbered issues may have appeared in 1945 with the main sequence (#1 to #107) possibly appearing on a monthly basis between August 1946 and June 1955. Those dates have been adopted here for convenience though it must be stressed they are estimates only.

    Based on the cover price a further group was published later in the 1950s, but even less is known about these outliers.

    Leisure Westerns [nn, 1945?] (H. John Edwards Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 6d, digest)

    Leisure Westerns [nn, 1945?] (H. John Edwards Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 6d, digest)
    Issue partially indexed.

    Leisure Westerns [nn, 1945?] (H. John Edwards Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 6d, digest)
    Details supplied by Theo Hristakos.

    Leisure Westerns [nn, 1945?] (H. John Edwards Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., 6d, digest)
    Details supplied by Theo Hristakos.
    • · Stranger from Tahoosen · Jack Young · nv; given as by Lester Way on the cover.
    • · Gun Justice · Ken Whittle · ss

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