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Prison Life Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Short-lived pulp filled with wild stories about things that happen behind prison bars.

Issues & Index Sources: Sep-1935 – Dec-1935:

Publishers:   Tewhlel Publications, Washington
Formats:   large pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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Prison Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

A highly specialised Harold Hersey title focussing on the world of convicts, ex-convicts, and those about to become convicts.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1930 – May/Jun-1931:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers:   Good Story Magazine Co. (Harold Hersey)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   10c (last issue 25c)
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Private Affairs

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

Celebrity/expose title.

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1961 – Jun-1962

Publishers: Laurie Publication, Inc.

Private Club

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources

Jan/Feb/Mar-1970 – Oct/Nov/Dec-1972, as Private Club 82:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Jan/Feb/Mar-1973 – ?, as Private Club:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers

in 1971: Jaybird Enterprises, 21322 Lassen St., Chatsworth, CA
in 1973: American Art Agency, Inc., 21322 Lassen St., Chatsworth, CA

Editors

Robert F. Edwin, Wilma Tassen

Frequency

quarterly



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Private Confessions

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1957 – ?

Publishers: Four Star Publications

Private Confessions (Canada)

Country: Canada

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Private Detective (Stories)

Country: US
Total Issues: 134

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 Sep-1949) adding two comic strips to the mix and dropping the word "Stories" from the title.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1937 – Jun-1949, as Private Detective Stories:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Sep-1949 – Dec-1950, as Private Detective:	Crime Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

Trojan Publishing Corp., 2242 Grove St., Chicago, IL, later 125 E. 46th St., New York, NY. (Changed to Trojan Magazines, Inc., with first 1948 issue.)

Editors

M.R. Bindamin; Adolphe Barreaux

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

15c at start

Pagecounts

128pp

Frequency

mostly monthly

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Private Detective (Canada)

Country: Canada

This magazine has no direct relationship to the Trojan publication from the US of the same title. 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.

Continued after March 1944 as a true crime magazine entitled Private Detective Cases.

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1941 – Mar-1944:

Crime Fiction Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Superior
Formats:   pulp
Prices:   15c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Pulpster #11, 2001, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Private Detective (UK)

Country: UK

British reprint edition of Private Detective.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950:

Crime Fiction Index

(Missing: #4; #5; any after #9)

Publishers:   Thorpe & Porter, Leicester
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines



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Private Detective Cases (Canada)

Country: Canada

True crime.

Issues & Index Sources: May-1944 – ?

Publishers: Duchess Printing & Publishing Co.

Private Detective Stories [2007]

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

A short-lived magazine reprinting from a number of pulps.

Issues & Index Sources: Jul-2007 – Sep-2007:

Crime Fiction Index

Website:   www.movielocationsplus.com/Fortuna/magPDS.htm
Publishers:   Pulp Tales Press; Rialto, CA
Formats:   digest
Prices:   $10.95
Pagecounts:   80pp


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Private Eye [1953]

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

Private Eye featured stories of hoodlums and small-time crooks, private investigators and the police, and some stories with surprie endings. Despite containing a good selection of contemporary crime-adventure and mystery stories by well-known authors, the magazine folded after only two issues, publishing material that was too little different from so many others.