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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 [1961]

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1399 (to 3-Sep-2015)

Satirical paper.

Issues & Index Sources: 25-Oct-1961 – present

Website:   www.private-eye.co.uk
Publishers:   8 Carlisle St., London
Editors:   Richard Ingrams, Ian Hislop
Frequency:   fortnightly

Private Eye Detective Tales

see under New All-Action Stories

Private Eye Illustrated

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

True crime.

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

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

Private Eye Library

Country: UK

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 Films

Country: US

Men's magazine that published some fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep/Oct/Nov-1969 – ?:

FictionMags Index

(partial issue only)

Publishers: Jaybird Enterprises


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Private Investigator Detective Magazine

Country: US
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
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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The Prize

Country: UK

There was also an annual compilation of the monthly issues which in 1884 was priced at 1/6d.

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

Country: US
Total Issues: 3+1?=4?

The Nov-1929 issue was an unpublished "ashcan" issue.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1929 – Mar-1930:

Adventure Fiction Index

Jun-1930, as Fighting Air Pilot Stories:

Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers

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

Formats

standard pulp

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Detective Magazine

Country: US
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

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Ghost Stories

Country: US
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

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1964 – Summer 1964?

Publishers:   Macfadden-Bartell
Mentioned in:   It's a Man's World


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Prize Story Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 17?

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1928 – Feb-1930?:

General Fiction Index

(Missing: Nov-1929; Dec-1929; any issues after Feb-1930)

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

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Western

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1946: Western Fiction Index

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


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Probe

Country: South Africa
Total Issues: 206 (as at Jan-2026)

Fanzine which frequently publishes fiction, including the winners of the NOVA Short Story Competition.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun/Jul-1969 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(incomplete)

Website: www.sffsa.org.za

Publishers

Science Fiction & Fantasy South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Editors

  1969 – Aug-1978: Tex Cooper
  Nov-1978 – Jan-1987: Gail Brunette
  May-1987 – May-1988: Tony Davis
  Aug-1988 – Oct-1993: Neil Van Niekerk
  Jul-1994: Neil Van Niekerk & Derek Hols
  Oct-1994 – Feb-1995: Derek Hols
  Jul-1995 – Feb-1998: Cedric Abrahams
  May-1998 – Nov-2000: Deirdre Byrne
  2001 – 2006: Liz Simmonds
  Aug-2006 – present: Gail Jamieson



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Procrastination

Country: US
Total Issues: 15

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: ? – 1981

Publishers: Darrell Schweitzer, 113 Deepdale Rd, Strafford, PA 19087
Editors: Darrell Schweitzer

Procyon

Country: UK
Total Issues: 5

Fanzine that published some fiction by Brian Stableford.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1975 – Jun-1978

Editors: John Collick

Prof. Stone Adventures

Country: US
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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