Black Book Detective (Canada) (about)
Canadian reprint edition of Black Book Detective. Number of issues published not known but all issues seen appear to be direct reprints of the US issues so it is likely that all the US issues from Winter 1945 on (at least) were reprinted in Canada.
Publishers: Better Publications of Canada, Ltd.; Toronto, Ontario.
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| 1945 | v20 #3 Winter |
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| 1946 | v21 #1 Spring |
v21 #2 Summer |
 v21 #3 Fall |
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| 1947 | v22 #1 Feb |
v22 #2 Apr |
v22 #3 Jun |
v23 #1 Aug |
v23 #2 Oct |
 v23 #3 Dec |
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| 1948 | v24 #1 Feb |
 v24 #2 Apr |
v24 #3 Jun |
v25 #1 Sep |
v25 #2 Nov |
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| 1949 |  v25 #3 Jan |
 v26 #1 Mar |
 v26 #2 May |
v26 #3 Summer |
v27 #1 Fall |
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| 1950 | v27 #2 Winter |
v27 #3 Spring |
 v28 #1 Summer |
v28 #2 Fall |
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| 1951 | v28 #3 Winter |
v29 #1 Spring |
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| 1952 | v29 #2 Winter |
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| 1953 | v29 #3 Winter |
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Black Book Detective (UK) (1940) (about)
British reprint edition of Black Book Detective. Other issues may exist.
Publishers: Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd.; 18 Bride Lane, London EC4.
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| 1940 |  v10 #3 Apr |
 v11 #1 Jun |
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Black Book Detective (UK) (1946) (about)
British reprint edition of Black Book Detective. Other issues may exist.
Publishers: Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd.; 14 Lever Street, Manchester 1.
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| 1946 |  v 1 #1 |
# 1 ca. |
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| 1949 |  # 2 ca. |
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| 1950 |  # 3 ca. May |
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This title is listed by Mike Cook, in Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, as a retitling of Bakka Magazine, but closer examination shows that the magazine was still called Bakka Magazine and simply used Black Box as a subtitle on the seventh issue.
Black Cat Mystery Magazine (1981):
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.
— Black Cat Mystery Magazine
Publishers: March Chase Pub.; Toronto, Ontario.
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| 1981 |  v1 #1 # 1 |
 v1 #2 # 2 Jul |
 v1 #3 # 3 Halloween |
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— Black Cat Mystery Quarterly
Title changed from Black Cat Mystery Magazine.
Publishers: March Chase Pub.; Toronto, Ontario.
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| 1981 |  v1 #4 # 4 Winter |
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| 1982 |  v1 #5 # 5 |
 v1 #6 # 6 |
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Black Cat Mystery Magazine (2017) (about)
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| 2017 |  #1 Winter ’17/’18 |
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| 2018 |  v1 #2 Spring |
 v1 #3 Summer |
 v1 #4 Winter ’18/’19 |
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Spoof pulp with a single issue listed in Doug Ellis’ From the Pulp Vault #10, April 1992.
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| 1934 | v2 #4 Oct (unpublished spoof) |
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--- see under Crack Detective.
--- see under Swan American Magazine.
Black Mask started life fairly innocuously as a general pulp running all types of fiction from adventure to romance to westerns. However, it was the advent of Joseph T. Shaw as editor in November 1926 that saw Black Mask transformed into what is generally regarded as the finest detective pulp magazine ever published. Even though Shaw was fired in 1936, the magazine continued with a consistently high standard into the early 1950s, reaching a total of 340 issues.
— The Black Mask
Publishers: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc.; 25 West 45th Street, New York, NY.
— Black Mask
Title changed from The Black Mask.
Publishers: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, Inc.; 25 West 45th Street, New York, NY, May 1927 – Apr 1940; Popular Publications, Inc.; 2256 Grove Street, Chicago, IL, May 1940 – Mar 1950.
— Black Mask Detective
Title changed from Black Mask.
Publishers: Popular Publications, Inc.; 2256 Grove Street, Chicago, IL.
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| 1950 |  v34 #3 May |
 v34 #4 Jul |
 v35 #1 Sep |
 v35 #2 Nov |
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| 1951 |  v35 #3 Jan |
 v35 #4 Mar |
 v36 #1 May |
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— Black Mask Detective Magazine
Title changed from Black Mask Detective.
Publishers: Fictioneers, Inc.; 1125 E. Vaile Ave., Kokomo, Indiana.
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| 1951 |  v36 #2 Jul |
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— Black Mask (1974)
A brief revival that lasted for only one issue, featuring reprint fiction. A second issue was finished but never published.
Publishers: Lopez Publications, Inc.; 21 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010, Aug 1974.
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| 1974 |   v1 #1 Aug |
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— The New Black Mask Quarterly
A second revival which was, arguably, an original anthology series rather than a magazine. It was superseded by the anthology series A Matter of Crime by the same editors (1987-88, 4 volumes).
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| 1985 |  #1 |
 #2 |
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— The New Black Mask
Title changed from The New Black Mask Quarterly.
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| 1985 |  #3 |
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| 1986 |  #4 |
 #5 |
 #6 |
 #7 |
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| 1987 |  #8 |
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— Black Mask (2016)
A third revival that mainly reprinted from a variety of different pulp magazines.
Publishers: Altus Press, Fll 2016—.
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| 2016 |  v36 #3 Fall |
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| 2017 |  v36 #4 Spring |
 v37 #1 Fall |
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| 2018 |  v37 #2 Spring |
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| 2019 |  v37 #3 |
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