Mystery Book Magazine/Giant Detective
Mystery Book Magazine started life as a high quality digest magazine
that achieved very positive reviews, but disappointing sales. It started
as a monthly in 1945, dropped back to a bi-monthly in schedule in 1947
and then in August 1947 dropped to a quarterly schedule and changed to a
pulp format. After three years, with its fortunes failing, it changed
its name dramatically to Giant Detective but folded after a mere two
issues under that name.
The Fall 1948 issue was originally issued with the title in yellow, but the
publishers discovered that the printers had failed to insert pages 3 to 32, so
the issue was reprinted with the title now in red.
A Canadian reprint edition existed in the late 1940s.
1945 |
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![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194507_v1_n1_tn.jpg) v1 #1 Jul |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194508_tn.jpg) v1 #2 Aug |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194509_tn.jpg) v1 #3 Sep |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194510_tn.jpg) v1 #4 Oct |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194511_tn.jpg) v2 #1 Nov |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194512_tn.jpg) v2 #2 Dec |
1946 |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194601_tn.jpg) v2 #3 Jan |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194602_tn.jpg) v2 #4 Feb |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194603_tn.jpg) v3 #1 Mar |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194604_tn.jpg) v3 #2 Apr |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194605_tn.jpg) v3 #3 May |
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![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194607_tn.jpg) v3 #4 Jul |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194608_tn.jpg) v4 #1 Aug |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194609_n14_tn.jpg) v4 #2 Sep |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194610_tn.jpg) v4 #3 Oct |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194611_tn.jpg) v4 #4 Nov |
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1947 |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194701_tn.jpg) v5 #1 Jan |
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![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194703_tn.jpg) v5 #2 Mar |
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![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_194705_tn.jpg) v5 #3 May |
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![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1947fal_tn.jpg) v6 #1 Fall |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1947win_tn.jpg) v6 #2 Winter |
1948 |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1948spr_tn.jpg) v6 #3 Spring |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1948sum_tn.jpg) v7 #1 Summer |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1948fal_tn.jpg) v7 #2 Fall |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1948win_tn.jpg) v7 #3 Winter |
1949 |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1949sprn1_tn.jpg) v8 #1 Spring |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1949sprn2_tn.jpg) v8 #2 Spring |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1949sum_tn.jpg) v8 #3 Summer |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1949fal_tn.jpg) v9 #1 Fall |
1950 |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1950win_tn.jpg) v9 #2 Winter |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1950spr_tn.jpg) v9 #3 Spring |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_1950sum_tn.jpg) v10 #1 Summer |
![](../data/thumbs2/g/giant_detective_1950fal_tn.jpg) v10 #2 Fall |
1951 |
![](../data/thumbs2/g/giant_detective_1951win_tn.jpg) v10 #3 Winter |
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Further issues may exist.
1949 |
![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_canada_194902_tn.jpg) Feb |
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1950 |
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![](../data/thumbs2/m/mystery_book_canada_1950sum_tn.jpg) v10 #1 Summer |
![](../data/thumbs2/g/giant_detective_canada_1950fal_tn.jpg) v10 #2 Fall |
1951 |
![](../data/thumbs2/g/giant_detective_canada_1951win_tn.jpg) v10 #3 Winter |
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