Private Detective (Stories)
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 adding two comic strips to the
mix and dropping the word "Stories" from the title.
There were at least 9 issues of a British
reprint edition. There was also a Canadian
magazine of the same name although it had no direct relationship to the
Trojan magazine. 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.
1937 |
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1938 |
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1939 |
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1940 |
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1941 |
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1942 |
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1943 |
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1944 |
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1945 |
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1946 |
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1947 |
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1948 |
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1949 |
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1950 |
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Some issues unnumbered; other issues may exist.
1950? |
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Other issues exist. Continued after March 1944 under the same title as a true crime magazine.
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1942 |
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1943 |
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