Magazine Checklists

New Detective Magazine/Fifteen Detective Stories/True Adventures

New Detective Magazine started in 1941 promising "the NEWest in Crime Fiction, and carried the standard fare of crime stories, with emphasis on police detectives, by some of the most popular authors. It ran for 73 issues and was then, in August 1953, merged with Detective Tales to form Fifteen Detective Stories. This was originally launched as a new magazine with the August 1953 issue, but with its second issue picked up the volume numbering of New Detective Magazine.

However, it only ran under the new title for 12 issues before folding in June 1955. It was then relaunched in January 1956 as a men's magazine called True Adventures, but is believe to have published no fiction under that title. The listing of issues under this title is incomplete.

There was a Canadian reprint edition in the 1950s and at least two British reprint editions - one from Thorpe & Porter in the 1940s and one from Pembertons of Manchester in the 1950s.

The New Detective Magazine name had also been used earlier by Two-Book Detective Magazine and True Adventures had also been used in 1925 as the percursor to Lariat Story Magazine .

1941
v1 #1
Mar
v1 #2
Aug
v1 #3
Nov

1942
v1 #4
Jan
v2 #1
Mar v2 #2
May
v2 #3
Jul v2 #4
Sep
v3 #1
Nov

1943 v3 #2
Jan v3 #3
Mar
v3 #4
May
v4 #1
Jul
v4 #2
Sep
v4 #3
Nov

1944
v4 #4
Jan v5 #1
Mar
v5 #2
May
v5 #3
Jul
v5 #4
Sep
v6 #1
Nov

1945
v6 #2
Jan
v6 #3
Mar
v6 #4
May
v7 #1
Jul
v7 #2
Sep
v7 #3
Nov

1946
v7 #4
Jan
v8 #1
Feb
v8 #2
Mar
v8 #3
May
v8 #4
Jul
v9 #1
Sep
v9 #2
Nov

1947
v9 #3
Jan
v9 #4
Mar
v10 #1
May
v10 #2
Jul
v10 #3
Sep
v10 #4
Nov

1948
v11 #1
Jan
v11 #2
Mar
v11 #3
May
v11 #4
Jul
v12 #1
Sep
v12 #2
Nov

1949
v12 #3
Jan
v12 #4
Mar
v13 #1
May
v13 #2
Jul
v13 #3
Sep
v13 #5
Nov

1950
v14 #2
Jan
v14 #3
Mar
v14 #4
May
v15 #1
Jul
v15 #2
Sep
v15 #3
Nov

1951
v15 #4
Feb
v16 #1
Apr
v16 #2
Jun
v16 #3
Aug
v16 #4
Oct
v17 #1
Dec

1952
v17 #2
Feb
v17 #3
Apr
v17 #4
Jun
v18 #1
Aug
v18 #2
Oct
v18 #3
Dec

1953
v18 #4
Feb
v19 #1
Apr
v19 #2
Jun
v1 #1
Aug
v19 #4
Oct
v20 #1
Dec

1954
v20 #2
Feb
v20 #3
Apr
v20 #4
Jun
v21 #1
Sep
v21 #2
Nov

1955
v21 #2
Feb
v21 #3
Apr
v21 #4
Jun

1956

1957
Jun
Jul

1958

1959

1960
Feb

1961
Apr
Jun
Oct

1962
Aug
Oct

1963
Aug

1964
Oct

1965
Feb
Dec

1966

1967

1968

1969

1970