Popular Detective (Australia) (about)
Another thin Australian digest, this one with a mixture of original stories and reprints from American pulps.
Publishers: Action Comics Pty. Ltd.; 14 Bond Street, Sydney.
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| 1954 |  v 1 #1 |
v 1 #2 |  v 1 #3 |
 v 1 #4 |
v 1 #5 |  v 1 #6 |
 v 1 #7 |
v 1 #8 | v 1 #9 (var.1) |  v 1 #9 (var.2) |
v 1 #10 | v 1 #11 (var.1) |  v 1 #11 (var.2) |
| 1954 |  v 1 #12 |
v 1 #13 |  v 1 #14 |
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Popular Detective (Canada) (about)
Canadian reprint edition of Popular Detective
Publishers: The American News Company, Ltd.; Toronto, Ontario.
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| 1935 |  Apr |
 v3 #2 Jun |
 v3 #3 Jul |
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| 1936 |  Oct |
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| 1941 |  v21 #2 Oct |
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| 1942 |  v21 #3 Jan |
 May |
 Aug |
 Dec |
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| 1943 |  v24 #2 Sep |
 Dec |
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| 1944 |  v24 #3 Mar |
 Jun |
 Sep |
 v35 #3 Dec |
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| 1945 |  Jun |
 Aug |
 Oct |
 Dec |
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| 1949 |  v37 #3 Nov |
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| 1950 |  v38 #1 Jan |
 v38 #2 Mar |
 v38 #3 May |
 v39 #1 Jul |
 v39 #2 Sep |
 v39 #3 Nov |
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| 1951 |  v40 #1 Jan |
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Popular Detective (UK) (about)
British reprint edition of Popular Detective.
Publishers: Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd.; 14 Lever Street, Manchester 1.
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| 1950 |  v1 #1 # 1 (Spring) |
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| 195? |  # 2 |
 # 3 |
# 4 |  # 5 |
# 6 |  # 7 |
 # 8 |
 # 9 |
 #10 |
 #11 |
 #12 |
#13 | #14 |
Popular Detective Stories (about)
One-shot magazine/anthology reprinting stories from various US sources.
Publishers: Popular Publications; 505 His Majesty’s Building, Commissioner and Joubert Streets, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Short-lived pulp filled with wild stories about things that happen behind prison bars.
Publishers: Tewhlel Publications, Inc.; Washington and South Streets, Dunellen, NJ.
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| 1935 |  v1 #1 Sep |
 v1 #2 Oct |
 v1 #3 Dec |
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A highly specialised Harold Hersey title focussing on the world of convicts, ex-convicts, and those about to become convicts.
Publishers: Good Story Magazine Co., Inc.; Myrick Building, Springfield, MA.
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| 1930 |  v1 #1 Nov |
 v1 #2 Dec |
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| 1931 |  v1 #3 Jan |
 v1 #4 Feb |
 v2 #1 Mar |
 v2 #2 May/Jun |
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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 (from September 1949) adding two comic strips to the mix and dropping the word “Stories” from the title. Details on retitled reprints supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson from articles published by Glenn Lord.
— Private Detective Stories
Publishers: Trojan Publishing Corp.; 2242 Grove Street, Chicago, IL; and later at 125 East 46th Street, New York 17, NY, Jun 1937 – Nov 1947; Trojan Magazines, Inc.; 125 East 46th Street, New York 17, NY, Feb 1948 – Dec 1950.
— Private Detective
Title changed from Private Detective Stories.
Publishers: Trojan Magazines, Inc.; 125 East 46th Street, New York 17, NY.
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| 1949 |  v21 #4 Sep |
 v21 #5 Dec |
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| 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 |
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