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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
v1 #1
Jul
v1 #2
Aug
v1 #3
Sep
v1 #4
Oct
v2 #1
Nov
v2 #2
Dec

1946
v2 #3
Jan
v2 #4
Feb
v3 #1
Mar
v3 #2
Apr
v3 #3
May
v3 #4
Jul
v4 #1
Aug
v4 #2
Sep
v4 #3
Oct
v4 #4
Nov

1947
v5 #1
Jan
v5 #2
Mar
v5 #3
May
v6 #1
Fall
v6 #2
Winter

1948
v6 #3
Spring
v7 #1
Summer
v7 #2
Fall
v7 #3
Winter

1949
v8 #1
Spring
v8 #2
Spring
v8 #3
Summer
v9 #1
Fall

1950
v9 #2
Winter
v9 #3
Spring
v10 #1
Summer
v10 #2
Fall

1951
v10 #3
Winter

Canadian reprint edition

Further issues may exist.

1949
Feb

1950
v10 #1
Summer
v10 #2
Fall

1951
v10 #3
Winter