Magazine Checklists

Baffling Detective Mysteries

Baffling Detective Mysteries was a short-lived sensationalist crime fiction magazine, which survived for a mere three issues. It was superseded by the true crime magazine Baffling Detective Fact Cases.

1943
v1 #1
Mar
v1 #2
May
v1 #3
Jul

Best Detective

Seemingly a one-shot pulp by Exclusive Detective Stories (an imprint of Standard Magazines). Not to be confused with the long-running Best Detective Magazine from the 1930s.

1947
v1 #1
Dec

Big-Book Detective Magazine

Big-Book Detective Magazine was launched as a companion to Big-Book Western Magazine, but was much less successful, lasting for a mere eight issues.

1941
v1 #1
Dec

1942
v1 #2
Feb
v1 #3
Apr
v1 #4
Jun
v2 #1
Aug
v2 #2
Oct
v2 #3
Dec

1943
v2 #4
Feb

Big-Book Detective Magazine (Canada)

Initially a Canadian reprint edition of Big-Book Detective Magazine, this actually lasted longer than its parent magazine, reprinting from other magazines in later issues.

1941

1942 v1 #2
Jan

1943
Apr

1944 v2 #11
Apr v2 #12
Jun
v2 #13
Aug
v2 #14
Oct
v2 #15
Dec

Big Detective (Canada)

Although most of the issues were titled Big Detective Cases and contained true crime, the first issue (at least) contained fiction.

1941
v1 #1

Big Double Feature Magazine

One-shot consisting of a copy of Ranch Romances and a copy of Black Mask (September 1939) bundled together with a new two-color cover. No date listed, could be 1939.

1940
#1

Bizarre! Mystery Magazine

Despite the title and the editorial promise of "the supernatural, the weird, the wild, the fantastic", the magazine mainly contained stories of murder mystery and suspense.

1965
v1 #1
Oct
v1 #2
Nov

1966
v1 #3
Jan

Black Aces

Subtitled "Lone Wolf Stories of Action", Black Aces was a short-lived Black Mask imitation that never quite hit the hard-boiled mark.

1932 v1 #1
Jan
v1 #2
Feb
v1 #3
Mar
v1 #4
Apr
v1 #5
May v1 #6
Jun
v1 #7
Jul

Black Bat Detective Mysteries

Although Black Bat Detective Mysteries was centered around a series of stories featuring "The Black Bat", this is not the same crime fighter that was made famous in Black Book Detective Magazine but is instead a separate character created by Murray Leinster..

1933
v1 #1
Oct v1 #2
Nov
v1 #3
Dec

1932
v1 #4
Jan
v1 #5
Feb
v1 #6
Apr

Black Cat Mystery Magazine/Quarterly

Mixture of reprint and new stories, both mystery and supernatural. All issues of this magazine have the same cover illustration--the head of a black cat in a circle.

1981
v1 #1, #1 v1 #2, #2
Jul
v1 #3, #3
Halloween v1 #4, #4
Winter

1982
v1 #5, #5
v1 #6, #6

Blue Steel Magazine

Something of a puzzle since this magazine began with Vol.1 No.2 and the second issue is Vol.1 No.4. Steeger says it was an experiment to supplant Gang World though that magazine picked up sales and continued regardless. Authors include Erle Stanley Gardner, Robert Sidney Bowen, T.T. Flynn, Frederick C. Painton. The two issues are the same as the Feb-1932 and Apr-1932 issues of Gang World.

1932
v1 #2
Mar
v1 #4
Jun

Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Story Digest Magazine

Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery was one of four separate single-author digest magazines issued simultaneously in June 1970 under the general title of Story Digest Magazine.

1970
Jun
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery Dark Shadows
Tarzan of the Apes Believe It or Not

Bullet Magazine

Contained short fast paced stories no longer than 1500 words that fit with the notion of rock'n'roll noir.

2004
#1
#2

2005
#3
#4
#5

2006
#6
#7

Bull's Eye Detective

A short-lived companion magazine to Fiction House's Bull's Eye Sports and Bull's Eye Western Stories.

1938
v1 #1
Fall

1939
v1 #2
Spring
v1 #3
Fall

1981	v1 #1, #1	v1 #2, #2 Jul	v1 #3, #3 Halloween	v1 #4, #4 Winter
1982	v1 #5, #5	v1 #6, #6