Short-lived hardboiled/noir magazine.
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Subtitled "a magazine of noir", Needle is "Hardboiled. Lean and mean.
No silly reviews. No poetry (that's for pussies). No advertising.
Nothing but hard hitting stories.".
| 2010 |
v1 #1, Spring |
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| 2011 |
v2 #1, Spring |
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| 2012 |
v3 #1, Winter |
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#7, Fall/Winter |
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| 2014 |
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#10, Winter 2014/15 |
A short-lived reprint digest magazine, featuring an introduction by
Rex Stout, a Nero Wolfe novella, ten reputable short stories, and a
crossword in each issue.
| 1954 |
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One of Hersey's less successful gangster pulps--in Hersey's
autobiography, this seems to be his only title not mentioned.
The Aug/Sep-1931 issue was an unpublished "ashcan" issue.
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Started life in 1930 as a non-crime pulp called Man Stories,
which changed its name in November 1931 to Popular Fiction. These were
replaced in 1933 by Nickel Detective which was itself renamed
to Strange Detective Stories in November 1933.
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v1 #1
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v1 #2
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v1 #3
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v1 #4
Feb |
v1 #5
Mar/Apr |
v1 #6
May |
v2 #1
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v2 #2
Jul |
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v2 #4
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| 1932 |
v2 #5
Jan |
v2 #6
Feb |
v3 #1
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v3 #2
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v3 #5
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| 1933 |
v3 #6
Jan |
v4 #1
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v4 #2
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v4 #3
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v4 #6
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v5 #1
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v5 #2
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Seems more like a one-off pulp format anthology selecting from pages of Liberty.
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#4
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#5
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#6
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| 2019 |
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| 2020 |
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A 64-page, comic-book size modern-day pulp magazine which featured
fiction, art and comic strips by the greatest talents in the mystery,
crime fiction and comics fields.
| 1994 |
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| 1995 |
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Short-lived Canadian digest publishing original stories by local authors.
| 1948 |
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v1 #1
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Subtitled "The Modern Journal of Pulp Fiction and Degenerate
Literature", and concentrating on crime fiction with a degenerate edge.
| 2007 |
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| 2010 |
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| 2011 |
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#8
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Features short stories, author profiles, author interviews, and other articles of general interest to mystery fans.
| 1993 |
v1 #0 |
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| 1994 |
v2 #2, #4, Spring |
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| 1999 |
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| 2000 |
#7, Spring |
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The issues seen are partial reprints of US saucy pulps such as Vice Squad Detective
and Spicy Detective Stories, so it is quite likely that this is actually a UK magazine
(as the only known issues are in the UK) and that the listed publisher and price are a
smokescreen. Other issues may exist.
Each cover is a copy of a cover from an earlier US pulp. Where known these are displayed below
for comparison purposes.
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Pep Stories
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Saucy
Movie Tls
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Saucy Det
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Spicy
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A light fiction detective magazine "with as fresh a slant as tomorrow's
newspaper." The stories were illustrated with photographs of models. The
men are shown fully clothed and generally intently examining clues. The
women show a lot of leg.
| 1937 |
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An early experiment with a "pocket-sized" magazine to persuade readers
to part with their cash in the hard days after the depression, Pocket Detective
featured many of the same authors as the other Street & Smith detective pulps.
Bad sales did not result in the anticipated success and it folded after 11 issues.
| 1936 |
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| 1937 |
v1 #2
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v1 #3
Feb |
v1 #4
Mar |
v1 #5
Apr |
v1 #6
May |
v2 #1
Jun |
v2 #2
Jul |
v2 #3
Aug |
v2 #4
Sep |
v2 #5
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Designed to fit in a man's hip-pocket, Pocket Detective featured fast-action,
crime-adventure stories, each preceded by a pulplike illustration and printed
on cheap paper. It folded after only two issues.
| 1950 |
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One of the many undated "one shot" magazines published in the UK in the
years after the Second World War. In a loose series with Crime
Detective, Homicide Reporter, Racket-Buster Detective
and Crime Investigator.
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One-shot South African magazine/anthology reprinting stories from various US sources.
Short-lived pulp filled with wild stories about things that
happen behind prison bars.
| 1935 |
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A highly specialised Harold Hersey title focussing on the world of
convicts, ex-convicts, and those about to become convicts.
| 1930 |
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| 1931 |
v1 #3
Jan |
v1 #4
Feb |
v2 #1
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A short-lived magazine reprinting from a number of pulps.
| 2007 |
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v1 #2
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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.
| 1953 |
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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.
| 1956 |
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| 1957 |
v1 #2
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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.
| 1929 |
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v1 #1
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v1 #2
Dec |
| 1930 |
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v1 #4
Mar |
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| 2011 |
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v1 #1, Autumn |
| 2012 |
v1 #2, Winter 2011/12 |
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| 2013 |
v1 #4, Winter |
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v1 #5, Summer |
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| 2014 |
v1 #6, Winter |
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v1 #7, Summer |
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| 2015 |
v1 #8, Winter |
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v1 #9, Summer |
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| 2016 |
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v1 #10, Spring |
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| 2017 |
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v2 #1, May |
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v2 #2, December |
| 2018 |
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v2 #3, Summer |
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| 2019 |
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v2 #4, Summer |
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Tech Noir, Fall |
| 2020 |
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v2 #5, Summer |
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v2 #6, Winter |
| 2021 |
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v2 #7, Summer |
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| 2022 |
v2 #8, Winter |
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| 2023 |
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Die Laughing, Fall |
Promising "Exciting Crime Fiction", Pursued was launched as a
companion to Murder when Decker Publications acquired the latter
title, with the first issue labelled v1 #4 to match the numbering of
Murder. It lasted a mere two issues.
| 1957 |
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