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    15 Story Detective (Canada) [April 1950] (pulp)
    Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date.
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    15 Story Detective (Canada) [August 1950] (pulp)
    Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date.
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    15 Story Detective (Canada) [October 1950] (pulp)
    Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date.
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    15 Story Detective (Canada) [December 1950] (pulp)
    Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date.
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    15 Story Detective (Canada) [February 1951] (pulp)
    Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date.
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    15 Story Detective (Canada) [July 1951] (pulp)
    Issue not found - probably identical contents to the US issue of the same date.
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    Fingerprints Detective    (about)
    Issues are undated, but probably in the 1940s. Stories and articles were reprints from companion title Scientific Detective.

    • Publishers:
      • EBR Book Co.; 1755 Broadway, New York 19, NY: Fingerprints Detective, #1.
      • R. and J. Publishing Company; 1745 Broadway, New York 19, NY: Fingerprints Detective, #2.


    Fingerprints Detective [#1, 1945?] (EBR Book Co., 25¢, 128pp, digest)
    Details taken from Table of Contents.
    • 5 · Nemesis of the Ghostly Collie · Gail Crawford · ar Uncensored Detective
    • 19 · Lu Chun-Yung’s Seventh Heaven · Wallace King · ar World Detective Cases
    • 35 · Did the Conjuror Slip-Up? · M. E. W. Oliver · ts London Life
    • 38 · The Fur Thief · A. T. Peterson & D. P. Lindon · ar The Wide World Magazine
    • 54 · The Change Ringers · Peter Kendall · ar The Illustrated London News
    • 60 · A Feeling That Failed · Douglas Newton · ss Pearson’s Magazine
    • 79 · Ju-Jitsu · Grace Girard · ar
    • 83 · St Louis Scientist Pictures Culprit from Fingerprints · Anon. · ar
    • 89 · Secret Writings and Spies · Dr. J. Wolfe & Prof. Haris F. MacNeish · ar Scientific Detective
    • 94 · Science Catches the Criminal · Dr. Edward Podolsky · ar
    • 99 · Old Paintings Under the X-Rays · Alan Burroughs · ar; condensed from Art Criticism from a Laboratory (George Allen and Unwin).
    • 103 · Queer Tricks That People Played to End It All · Anon. · ms The American Weekly
    • 107 · Back to Life · Dudley Hoys · ss The 20-Story Magazine Jul 1934
    • 120 · Ireland’s Own Murder on the River · C. P. Cleary · ts
    • 128 · 3-Year Pause in “The Wasp’s” 1-Woman Crime Wave · Anon. · ms The American Weekly




    Five-Cent Detective    (about)
    One of the “Nickel Series” of magazines, along with Five-Cent Adventures, Five-Cent Flying Stories and Five-Cent Western published in 1932. Nothing else is known about the magazine which is believed to have lasted for only 1 issue.

    • Publishers:
      • Rainbow Publishing Corp.; Myrick Building, Springfield, MA: Five-Cent Detective



    5-Detective Mysteries    (about)
    Short-lived detective pulp about which very little is known.

    • Publishers:
      • Dell Publishing Co., Inc.; 149 Madison Avenue, New York, NY: 5-Detective Mysteries

    • Editors:





    5 Detective Novels Magazine    (about)
    A reprint magazine selecting mostly from other Standard Magazines of the late 1930s/early 1940s but later from American Magazine and Black Mask. Some sources list an 18th issue, Winter 1954, but Cook/Miller state this does not exist.

    • Publishers:
      • Standard Magazines, Inc.; 29 Worthington Street, Springfield, MA: 5 Detective Novels Magazine

    • Editors:
      • Harvey Burns - Editor: 5 Detective Novels Magazine, Nov 1949 – Sum 1951.
      • David X. Manners - Editor: 5 Detective Novels Magazine, Fll 1951 – Fll 1952.
      • Morris Ogden Jones - Editor: 5 Detective Novels Magazine, Wtr 1953 – Fll 1953.










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