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Strange Detective Mysteries / Captain Satan

Strange Detective Mysteries specialised, as the title implied, in "bizarre, thrilling, eerie-laden, mystery stories" and featured a host of bizarre crime fighters. Briefly, for five issues in 1938, it changed its name to Captain Satan and concentrated on the eponymous hero, but soon reverted to the original title, publishing a total of 33 issues in 6 series.

Even more successful was the Canadian Reprint Edition which ran for at least 48 issues in the early 1940s. In the early issues, the contents of an issue of Strange Detective Mysteries and an issue of Dime Mystery Magazine were mixed together and republished over two issues of the Canadian magazine, with a couple of stories squeezed out.

After the US edition of Strange Detective Mysteries folded, issues of Dime Mystery Magazine were reprinted, abridged, in alternating issues of Strange Detective Mysteries, with the intervening issues filled with random reprints, mostly from Detective Fiction Weekly of the 1930's.

There was also a British reprint edition in the 1940s, but few details are known of it at present.

1937
v1 #1
Oct
v1 #2
Nov

1938
v1 #3
Mar
v1 #4
Apr
v2 #1
May
v2 #2
Jun
v2 #3
Jul
v2 #4
Nov/Dec

1939
v3 #1
Jan/Feb
v3 #2
Mar/Apr
v3 #3
May/Jun
v3 #4
Jul/Aug
v4 #1
Sep/Oct
v4 #2
Nov/Dec

1940
v4 #3
Jan/Feb
v4 #4
Mar
v5 #1
May
v5 #2
Jul
v5 #3
Sep
v5 #4
Nov

1941
v6 #1
Jan
v6 #2
Mar
v6 #3
May
v6 #4
Oct

1942
v7 #1
Jan
v6 #2
Mar
v7 #3
May
v7 #4
Jul
v8 #1
Sep
v8 #2
Nov

1943
v8 #3
Jan
v8 #4
Mar
v9 #1
May

Canadian reprint edition

The earliest issue known of this title is v6 #3, August 1941. This, and the following issue (v6 #4, November 1941) are the only issues in which the numbering is the same as the US edition from which it reprints, so they are probably among the first issues. The latest issue seen is v11 #30, November 1945. It seems to have been monthly for the entire period, which would have produced at least 48 issues.

Other issues may exist

1938
Nov/Dec

1941
v6 #3
Aug
v6 #4
Nov v6 #5
Dec

1942 v6 #6
Jan v7 #1
Feb
v7 #2
Mar
v7 #3
Apr v8 #4
May
Jun
v10 #1
Aug
v10 #2
Sep
v10 #3
Oct v10 #4
Nov
v10 #5
Dec

1943
v10 #6
Jan
v10 #7
Feb
v10 #8
Mar
v10 #9
Apr
v10 #10
May
v10 #11
Jun
v10 #12
Jul
v10 #13
Aug
v10 #14
Sep
v10 #15
Oct
v10 #16
Nov
v10 #17
Dec

1944
v10 #18
Jan v10 #19
Feb
v10 #20
Mar
v10 #21
Apr
v10 #22
May
v10 #23
Jun v10 #24
Jul
v10 #25
Aug
v10 #26
Sep
v10 #27
Oct
v10 #28
Nov
v10 #29
Dec

1945
v10 #30
Jan
v10 #31
Feb
v10 #32
Mar v10 #33
Apr
v10 #24
May
v10 #25
Jun v10 #26
Jul
v11 #27
Aug v11 #28
Sep
v11 #29
Oct
v11 #30
Nov
v11 #31
Dec

British reprint edition

Other issues may exist.

1940
May

1943
May