One-shot crime fiction magazine which promised "all new fast moving and action packed stories".

True crime. Comic with artwork by George Brenner, Will Eisner and others.

MDE says the issue is "all true detective cases except one fictional story" but that one story is a reprint from Saucy Detective Stories where it is listed (by MDE) as non-fiction. The cover suggests it is a pure true crime mag.

Canadian reprint edition of Detective Romances.

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Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Max Stein & Co., 508 S. State St., Chicago, IL
Formats:   7 x 4¾"
Pagecounts:   40
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Small pamphlet magazines issued shortly after the end of the Second World War when paper rationing was at its height.

Detective Short Stories specialised in unflagging, unsubtle and ferocious action, with covers typically featuring girls in torn clothes, tied up and in fearful danger. Despite the relatively poor quality of most of the stories, the magazine lasted for six years from 1943 to 1947, followed four years later by a single issue from a different publisher.

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Issues & Index Sources:  in 1910s:

Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Max Stein & Co., 508 S. State St, Chicago, IL
Prices:   25c
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

The contents of the only known issue (#9) of the second series are identical to the only known issue (#1) of Manhunt Stories, also published by Page Publications.

Annual series of reprints, mostly from Detective Story Magazine.

Detective Story Magazine was the first pulp magazine devoted to detective fiction, and was actually a continuation of the dime novel series Nick Carter Stories with its first issue continuing a serial begun in that magazine. It ran for 34 years with half of that being on a weekly basis (although it had dropped to quarterly by the end of its life), notching up an amazing 1057 issues.

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A short-lived relaunch of the venerable Detective Story Magazine.

Thin magazine of stories by Australian authors; only 1 issue known.

Note: Some issues of Detective Tales had the descriptive text "Twelve Stories" above the title, which has led to the rumour of a title called "Twelve Stories Detective Tales".

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This was a reprint series which selected from the US Detective Tales. At least one issue (October 1946) seems to have been reprinted in the UK as a "special British edition".

British reprint edition of Detective Tales.