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Detective [1951]

Country: US

Subtitled "The Magazine of True Crime Stories/Cases".

Issues & Index Sources

  Winter 1951 – Summer 1951: FictionMags Index
  Fall 1951 – Fall 1953, as True Crime Detective: FictionMags Index (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Mercury Publications

Editors

  Edward D. Radin; Anthony Boucher & J. Francis McComas

Formats

  digest

Prices

  35c

Frequency

  quarterly

Detective Aces

Country: UK
Total Issues: 8?

British reprint edition of Ten Detective Aces, including some stories from Lone Wolf Detective Magazine and one from Marvel Science Stories!.

Issues & Index Sources:  early 1950s: Crime Fiction Index
Publishers:   L. Miller and Son, Ltd, 342-344 Hackney Road, London E2
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   1/- (last 2 issues 1/3d)
Pagecounts:   64pp
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Detective Action Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 19+9=28

Detective Action Stories was one of the first four magazines published in October 1930 by the then-new partnership of Henry Steeger and Harold Goldsmith that was to become so well-recognised as Popular Publications. However Detective Action Stories was never a great success, running for only 19 monthly issues until April 1932. It was briefly relaunched four years later (in October 1936) but lasted for only a further 9 issues before folding for good.

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1930 – Apr-1932: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 3
  Oct-1936 – Oct/Nov-1937: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Popular Publications, NY

Editors

  in 1931: Harry Steeger
  in 1937: Ralph Perry

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  128pp

Frequency

  monthly; bimonthly from Feb/Mar-1937

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Detective Adventures

Country: US

A magazine rumoured to exist but, like the publisher's name suggests, has been seen by very few.

Issues & Index Sources:  May-1935: Crime Fiction Index (Missing: all issues)
Publishers:   Lorelei Publishing, Chicago
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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The Detective and Adventure Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 11

Issues & Index Sources:  1889: Dime Novel Bibliography (Missing: #10)
Publishers:   Alex T. Loyd & Co., Chicago, IL
Prices:   25c ($3.00 a year)
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Detective and Murder Mysteries [1939]

Country: US
Total Issues: 4+1=5

Of the same title as an earlier magazine published by Associated Authors, Inc., this pulp magazine first appeared in March 1939 featuring one of the early marijuana stories, and is noted for its garish and weird covers often featuring torture and mayhem.

Issues & Index Sources

  Mar-1939 – Nov-1939: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 3
  Feb-1941: Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

  Mar-1939 – Nov-1939: Blue Ribbon Magazines (Columbia Publications), NY
  Feb-1941: Columbia Publications

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  116pp

Frequency

  bimonthly from second issue

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Detective and Murder Mysteries [1936]

see also under Murder Mysteries

Detective and Mystery Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 12

Issues & Index Sources:  1930: Dime Novel Bibliography
Publishers:   Arthur Westbrook Publishing Co., Cleveland, Ohio)
Formats:   7 x 5"
Prices:   20c
Pagecounts:   200
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography


Detective Annual

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  ?
Publishers:   Detective House Inc., 114 E. 32nd St., New York, NY, and 441 Lexington Ave., New York, NY
Frequency:   annual

Detective Book Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 18+47=65

Detective Book Magazine was published by Fiction House and emphasized a complete, unabridged, book-length detective novel in each issue, supported by a couple of short stories. Initially it was not particularly successful, running for only 18 monthly issues before folding in September 1931. However it was revived some six years later, in Fall 1937, and continued on a fairly regularly quarterly schedule for a further fifteen years, notching up a reasonable total of 65 issues.

Note that many (possibly all) of the novels in the second series were abridged.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1930 – Sep-1931: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 4
  Fall 1937 – Winter 1952/1953: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 4

Publishers

  Fiction House, NY

Editors

  1930 – 1931: J.W. Kelly
  Fall 1937 – Fall 1940: Malcolm Reiss
  Winter 1940 – Summer 1942: Wallace T. Foote
  Fall 1942 – Winter 1942: Larrabie Cunningham
  Spring 1943 – Spring 1950: Malcolm Reiss
  Winter 1951/1952 – Winter 1952/1953: Jack O'Sullivan

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  20c (but varied)

Pagecounts

  128pp (but varied)

Frequency

  1st series monthly; 2nd series quarterly

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Detective Casebook

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3?

One of the many British magazines in the 1940s published as a series of booklets with different titles to avoid paper restrictions. Three issues are known, but others may exist.

Issues & Index Sources

  Feb-1948, as Fireside Detective Casebook: Crime Fiction Index
  Mar-1948, as Bedside Detective Casebook: Crime Fiction Index
  Jun-1948, as Keyhole Detective Casebook: Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

  Brown Watson

Formats

  quarto

Prices

  1/-

Pagecounts

  32pp

Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines (Fireside only)
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Detective Cases

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources

  1955 – ?

Publishers

  in 1950s: Brookside Enterprises Inc., 55W 42nd St., New York, NY
  in 1960s: Globe Communications Corp, Pittsford, NY

Frequency

  bimonthly

Detective Classics

Country: US
Total Issues: 4+22=26

Detective Classics was an early detective pulp from Fiction House that actually started life as a war pulp titled Soldier Stories. After only four issues under that name it switched to a detective pulp, under the name Detective Classics, as which it continued for another 22 monthly issues. Each issue typically featured a lead novel followed by a small number of columns and short stories.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1929 – Sep-1929, as Soldier Stories: Crime Fiction Index
Adventure Fiction Index
  Nov-1929 – Sep-1931, as Detective Classics: Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

  Fiction House, NY

Formats

  standard pulp

Frequency

  mostly monthly

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Detective Crime Stories

Mentioned in Haining's "American Pulp Magazines", but actually an anthology featuring a story of that title by Lee Dexter.

Detective Diary

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1980s

Detective Digest

Country: US
Total Issues: 4?

True crime. Very elusive magazine; issues not seen and total run uncertain. Richard Bleiler has confirmed it is non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources

  Jan-1937 – Aug-1937?

Publishers

  Jan-1937 – Apr-1937: Ace Magazines, NY
  Aug-1937: Harle

Formats

  digest

Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines

Detective Dime Novels

Country: US
Total Issues: 1+3=4

Detective Dime Novels was launched in the wake of the suddent revival of interest in single-character pulp magazines in 1940, and featured Dr. Thaddeus Harker. With the second issue it was renamed to Red Star Detective and folded a mere three issues later.

Issues & Index Sources

  Apr-1940: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Jun-1940 – Oct-1940, as Red Star Detective: Crime Fiction Index
Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Frank A. Munsey

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c

Pagecounts

  112pp

Frequency

  bimonthly

Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines
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Detective Dragnet

Country: US

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1990s
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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