Magazine Checklists

Private Detective (Stories)

Private Detective Stories appeared in mid-1937, about three years after the first of the spicy magazine lines - Spicy Detective - and came from the same publisher - Trojan Publishing. The magazines were much the same - it has been said that "Private Detective Stories was Spicy Detective with less decorative covers and some, but not much, of the psychopathology left out". It ran for 134 issues over a period of 13 years, in the latter months adding two comic strips to the mix and dropping the word "Stories" from the title.

Over 50 years later the magazine was revived by Pulp Tales Press.

There were at least 11 issues of a British reprint edition. There was also a Canadian magazine of the same name although it had no direct relationship to the Trojan magazine. Some issues are direct reprints from that magazine, while other reprints stories from magazines such as Detective Yarns, Double-Action Gang, Hooded Detective and Crack Detective.

1937
v1 #1
Jun
v1 #2
Jul
v1 #3
Aug
v1 #4
Sep
v1 #5
Oct
v1 #6
Nov
v2 #1
Dec

1938
v2 #2
Jan
v2 #3
Feb
v2 #4
Mar
v2 #5
Apr
v2 #6
May
v3 #1
Jun
v3 #2
Jul
v3 #3
Aug
v3 #4
Sep
v3 #5
Oct
v3 #6
Nov
v4 #1
Dec

1939
v4 #2
Jan
v4 #3
Feb
v4 #4
Mar
v4 #5
Apr
v4 #6
May
v5 #1
Jun
v5 #2
Jul
v5 #3
Aug
v5 #4
Sep
v5 #5
Oct
v5 #6
Nov
v6 #1
Dec

1940
v6 #2
Jan v6 #3
Feb
v6 #4
Mar
v6 #5
Apr
v6 #6
May
v7 #1
Jun
v7 #2
Jul
v7 #3
Aug
v7 #4
Sep
v7 #5
Oct
v7 #6
Nov
v8 #1
Dec

1941
v8 #2
Jan
v8 #3
Feb
v8 #4
Mar
v8 #5
Apr
v8 #6
May
v9 #1
Jun
v9 #2
Jul
v9 #3
Aug
v9 #4
Sep
v9 #5
Oct
v9 #6
Nov
v10 #1
Dec

1942
v10 #2
Jan
v10 #3
Feb
v10 #4
Mar
v10 #5
Apr
v10 #6
May
v11 #1
Jun
v11 #2
Jul
v11 #3
Aug
v11 #4
Sep
v11 #2
Oct
v11 #6
Nov
v12 #1
Dec

1943
v12 #2
Jan
v12 #3
Feb
v12 #4
Mar
v12 #5
Apr
v12 #6
May
v13 #1
Jun
v13 #2
Jul
v13 #3
Aug
v13 #4
Sep
v13 #5
Oct
v13 #6
Nov
v14 #1
Dec

1944
v14 #2
Jan
v14 #3
Feb
v14 #4
Mar
v14 #5
Apr
v14 #6
May
v15 #1
Jun
v15 #2
Jul
v15 #3
Aug
v15 #4
Sep
v15 #5
Oct
v15 #6
Nov
v16 #1
Dec

1945
v16 #2
Jan
v16 #3
Feb
v16 #4
Mar
v16 #5
Apr
v16 #5
May
v17 #1
Jun
v17 #2
Jul
v17 #3
Aug
v17 #4
Sep
v17 #5
Oct
v17 #6
Nov
v18 #1
Dec

1946
v18 #2
Jan
v18 #3
Feb
v18 #4
Mar
v18 #5
May
v18 #6
Jul
v19 #1
Sep
v19 #2
Nov
v19 #3
Dec

1947
v19 #4
Jan
v19 #5
Feb
v19 #6
Mar
v20 #1
Jun
v20 #2
Nov

1948
v20 #3
Feb
v20 #4
May
v20 #5
Aug
v20 #6
Nov

1949
v21 #1
Feb
v21 #2
Apr
v21 #3
Jun
v21 #4
Sep
v21 #5
Dec

1950
v21 #6
Jan
v22 #1
Feb
v22 #2
Mar
v22 #3
Apr
v22 #4
May
v22 #5
Jun
v22 #6
Aug
v23 #1
Oct
v23 #2
Dec

2007
v1 #2
Jul

British Reprint Edition

Some issues unnumbered; other issues may exist.

1950?
nn
nn
nn #4 #5
#6 #7 #8
#9

Private Detective (Canada)

Other issues exist

1941 v1 #1
Jun
v1 #5
Oct

1942
v2 #1
Jan
v2 #2
Feb
v2 #7
Aug Nov
v2 #11
Dec

1943
v3 #2
Feb
v3 #3
Mar
Jun
v3 #8
Aug
v3 #9
Sep
v3 #10
Oct
v3 #11
Nov

1944
v5 #3
Mar