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Very little is known about this title which seems to be a one-shot pulp launched by H.C. Blackerby who also launched another one-shot detective pulp, Chief Detective, and a one-shot western pulp called Prize Western at the same time.

Publishers: Atomic Action Magazines; 512 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.

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1946

v1 #1
Fall

The Ghost, Super-Detective: (about)

Featuring George Chance, a stage magician turned hero, The Ghost, Super-Detective was a low-budget effort from the start, featuring only the lead novel and a couple of short stories. After three issues it had a single issue as simply The Ghost Detective, followed by another three as The Green Ghost Detective, before succumbing to the World War II paper shortage.

— The Ghost, Super-Detective

Publishers: Better Publications, Inc.; 22 West 48th Street, New York, NY.

— The Ghost Detective

Title changed from The Ghost, Super-Detective.

Publishers: Better Publications, Inc.; 22 West 48th Street, New York, NY.

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1940

v2 #1
Fall

— The Green Ghost Detective

Title changed from The Ghost Detective.

Publishers: Better Publications, Inc.; 10 East 40th Street, New York, NY.

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1941
v2 #2
Winter

v2 #3
Spring

v3 #1
Summer

1942 v3 #2
Winter (unpublished)

Giant Detective (about)

--- see under Mystery Book Magazine.

Giant Detective (Canada)

--- see under Mystery Book Magazine (Canada).

Giant Detective Annual (about)

A one-shot pulp, reprinting 14 stories from a wide variety of other detective pulps.

Publishers: Best Books, Inc.; 10 East 40th Street, New York, NY.

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1950

v 1 #1

Giant Manhunt (about)

Contained rebound, unsold, issues of Manhunt and other digest crime magazines. Exact contents of any given issue can vary from copy to copy.

Publishers: Flying Eagle Publications, Inc.; 545 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, NY.

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1953
# 1
# 2 (var.1)
# 2 (var.2)

1954
# 3
# 4

1955
# 5 (var.1)
# 5 (var.2)
# 6 (var.1)
# 6 (var.2)

195?
# 7 (var.1)
# 7 (var.2)
# 8 (var.1)
# 8 (var.2)
# 8 (var.3)
# 8 (var.4)
# 9

1957
#10 #11

1958
#12
#13

Girl Rackets (about)

Subtitled “True Stories of Gold Diggers”, but is apparently fiction.

Publishers: Better Publications, Inc.; 22 West 48th Street, New York, NY.

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1932

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Girl’s Detective Mysteries (about)

Companion to the short-lived Boy’s Adventure Stories, this magazine folded after a single undistinguished issue.

Publishers: Layne Publishing Corp.; 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, IL.

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1936

v1 #1
Oct

G-Men:

G-Men was launched by Standard Magazines in 1935 and rapidly established itself as the most popular of those featuring federal agent crime stories. It ran for 53 monthly issues until Feb-1940 at which point the decline of interest in “G-Man” stories caused a slight change in title (and emphasis) to G-Men Detective and a shift to a bimonthly schedule (occasionally falling to quarterly) which it maintained for a further 59 issues until the magazine folded in Winter 1953.