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Private Investigator Detective Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 2

The magazine featured Michael Avallone's well-known detective Ed Noon (and was originally to be called Ed Noon's Mystery Magazine). It folded after only two issues because of distribution problems.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1956 – Spring 1957:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers:   Republic Features Syndicate Inc., 39 W 55th St., New York, NY
Editors:   Michael Avallone
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   35c
Pagecounts:   96pp
Mentioned in:   Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines


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The Prize

Country: UK

There was also an annual compilation of the monthly issues which in 1884 was priced at 1/6d.

Continued as an Annual.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1876 – Dec-1931

Publishers:   Wells Gardner Darton, 2 Paternoster Buildings, London E.C.
Prices:   1d
Pagecounts:   12pp
Frequency:   monthly

Prize Air Pilot Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 3+1?=4?

The Nov-1929 issue was an unpublished "ashcan" issue.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1929 – Mar-1930:

Adventure Fiction Index

Jun-1930, as Fighting Air Pilot Stories:

Adventure Fiction Index

Publishers

Nov-1929 – Jan-1930: Prize Story Publishers, Inc.
Mar-1930: Affiliated Magazines, Inc., 1133 Broadway, New York, NY

Formats

standard pulp

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Detective Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 4

Published as a companion to Prize Air Pilot Stories and Prize Story Magazine, the magazine offered "Amazing Mysteries", but folded after a mere four issues.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1929 – Mar-1930:

Crime Fiction Index

Publishers

Nov-1929 – Feb-1930: Prize Story Publishers, Inc., 404 N. Wesley Avenue, Mt. Morris, IL.
Mar-1930: Affiliated Magazines, Inc., 1133 Broadway, New York, NY

Formats

standard pulp

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Ghost Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Large size magazine anthology, mostly reprints from Ghost Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: 1963:

Science Fiction Index


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Prize Sea Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  Spring 1964 – Summer 1964?

Publishers:   Macfadden-Bartell
Mentioned in:   It's a Man's World


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Prize Story Magazine

Country: US
Total Issues: 17?

Issues & Index Sources

Aug-1928 – Feb-1930?:

General Fiction Index

(Missing: Nov-1929; Dec-1929; any issues after Feb-1930)

Publishers

Aug-1928 – Dec-1929?: Prize Story Publishers, Inc., 33 West 60th Street, NY
Feb-1930: Affiliated Magazines, Inc., 1133 Broadway, New York, NY

Formats

bedsheet

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Prize Western

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Issues & Index Sources:  Winter 1946: Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   H.C. Blackerby, Holyoke, Mass.
Formats:   standard pulp
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps


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Probe

Country: South Africa
Total Issues: 201 (as at Oct-2024)

Fanzine which frequently publishes fiction, including the winners of the NOVA Short Story Competition.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun/Jul-1969 – present:

Science Fiction Index

(incomplete)

Website: www.sffsa.org.za

Publishers

Science Fiction & Fantasy South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Editors

  1969 – Aug-1978: Tex Cooper
  Nov-1978 – Jan-1987: Gail Brunette
  May-1987 – May-1988: Tony Davis
  Aug-1988 – Oct-1993: Neil Van Niekerk
  Jul-1994: Neil Van Niekerk & Derek Hols
  Oct-1994 – Feb-1995: Derek Hols
  Jul-1995 – Feb-1998: Cedric Abrahams
  May-1998 – Nov-2000: Deirdre Byrne
  2001 – 2006: Liz Simmonds
  Aug-2006 – present: Gail Jamieson



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Procrastination

Country: US
Total Issues: 15

Fanzine.

Issues & Index Sources: ? – 1981

Publishers: Darrell Schweitzer, 113 Deepdale Rd, Strafford, PA 19087
Editors: Darrell Schweitzer

Procyon

Country: UK
Total Issues: 5

Fanzine that published some fiction by Brian Stableford.

Issues & Index Sources: Winter 1975 – Jun-1978

Editors: John Collick

Prof. Stone Adventures

Country: US
Total Issues: 3

A cover was designed for a third issue (July 2008) but possibly renamed as Thrilling Adventures.

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-2007 – Mar-2008:

Adventure Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues)

Publishers:   Wild Cat Books
Editors:   Ron Hanna
Formats:   paperback
Prices:   $10.00
Pagecounts:   64pp


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Progress

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources: 1932 – ?

Publishers: Street & Smith

The Progressive Grocer

Country: US

Magazine for retail grocers that featured fiction in the 1920s & 30s.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan-1922 – present

Website: progressivegrocer.com
Editors: J.W. Greenberg (in 1922)

Prohibited Matter

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 10

Essentially a horror fiction fanzine, and while all the stories had an element of horror some tended more towards crime or science fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: 1992 – May 1999:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Rod Marsden & Dan Boyd, P.O. Box 19, Spit Junction, NSW
Editors:   Rod Marsden
Related Sites:   ZineWiki

Pro Se Presents

Country: US
Total Issues: 20

Originally an umbrella title for Fantasy & Fear, Peculiar Adventures and Masked Gun Mystery, Pro Se Presents... was launched as a replacement for all three in August 2011.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-2011 – Winter/Spring 2014:

Adventure Fiction Index

Website:   prose-press.com/pro-se-presents
Publishers:   ProSe Productions, Batesville, Arkansas
Editors:   Barry Reese
Formats:   trade paperback
Frequency:   monthly (to Mar-2013) then quarterly



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