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Dell’s first attempt to issue a mystery digest magazine. A good line-up of authors, but all with reprinted stories.

Publishers: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.; 261 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
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1950

#1
Oct/Dec

All Star Detective (about)

Commenced with Volume 1 #2. There was no prior issue copyrighted.

Publishers: Manvis Publications, Inc.; 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, IL.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
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1941

v1 #2
Dec

1942

v1 #3
May

All Star Detective Stories (about)

This Clayton pulp started life in 1928 as a “general fiction” magazine called Three Star Magazine, subsequently Three Star Stories, which ran for 34 issues to September 1929. Then, in October 1929, the magazine changed to a detective pulp with the name All Star Detective Stories.

Publishers: Three Star Publishing Corporation; 80 Lafayette Street, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1929

v9 #3
Oct v9 #4
Nov
v10 #1
Dec

1930
v10 #2
Jan
v10 #3
Feb
v10 #4
Mar
v11 #1
Apr
v11 #2
May
v11 #3
Jun
v11 #4
Jul
v12 #1
Aug
v12 #2
Sep
v12 #3
Oct
v12 #4
Nov
v13 #1
Dec

1931
v13 #2
Jan
v13 #3
Feb
v13 #4
Mar
v14 #1
Apr
v14 #2
May

v14 #3
Jul

v14 #4
Sep

v15 #1
Nov

1932
v15 #2
Jan

v15 #3
Apr

v15 #4
Jun

All Star Detective Stories (UK):

British reprint edition of All Detective. The British Library catalogue suggests there were three issues under this title and at least one more under the title All Detective Magazine, but they only have the first issue and no other have been found elsewhere.

— All Star Detective Stories (UK)

Publishers: The World’s Work (1913) Ltd.; Kingswood, Surrey.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1933

v1 #1
Jul
v1 #2
Aug (New Series) v1 #3
Sep

— All Detective Magazine (UK)

Title changed from All Star Detective Stories (UK).

Publishers: The World’s Work (1913) Ltd.; Kingswood, Surrey.

All-Story Detective:

One of Popular’s belated pulps best known now for its stories by John D. MacDonald and even a story by Cyril Kornbluth; the rest was competent but unremarkable. After six issues as All-Story Detective it changed its name to 15 Story Detective and ran for a further eight issues (a 9th, July 1951, issue is rumoured to exist but is probably phantom).

— All-Story Detective

Publishers: Popular Publications, Inc.; 2256 Grove Street, Chicago, IL.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1949

v1 #1
Feb

v1 #2
Apr

v1 #3
Jun

v1 #4
Aug

v2 #1
Oct

v2 #2
Dec

— 15 Story Detective

Title changed from All-Story Detective.

Publishers: Popular Publications, Inc.; 1125 E. Vaile Avenue, Kokomo, IN.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1950

v2 #3
Feb

v2 #4
Apr

v3 #1
Jun

v3 #2
Aug

v3 #3
Oct

v3 #4
Dec

1951

v4 #1
Feb

v4 #2
May

v4 #3
Jul (unpublished)

All-Story Detective (UK) (about)

British reprint edition of All-Story Detective.

Publishers: Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd.; 14 Lever Street, Manchester 1.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1949
# 1
# 2
# 3

1950
# 4

Amazing Detective Mystery Stories (UK)

Mike Cook, in Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, says one issue is known of this pulp magazine, but provides no details of it and no copy has been located. It seems likely that this was a misreading for the 1950 Mystery Stories which carried a banner heading of “Amazing Detective Mystery”.

Amazing Detective Stories (about)

--- see under Scientific Detective Monthly.

Amazing Detective Tales (about)

--- see under Scientific Detective Monthly.

American Crime Magazine:

Thin digest that ran for at least 36 issues, in two separate series. Despite the title and the boast that it contained “fast-moving drama by popular American authors” it seems to have contained only stories by Australian authors, probably a small number under multiple pseudonyms. There was also an associated series of standalone novelettes published by the same publisher under the same series title of which only two undated examples are known—The Counterfeiters by Rex Young and Murder Madness by Steve Hawk.

— American Crime Magazine (first series)

Publishers: Jatkins Publishing Company; 15 Rowe Street, Sydney.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1952

# 1
Apr
# 2
May # 3
Jun
# 4
Aug

# 5
Oct
# 6
Nov

— American Crime Magazine (second series)

Publishers: Jatkins Publishing Company; 15 Rowe Street, Sydney, Jan 1953 – Jun 1953; Cleveland Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd.; 15 Rowe Street, Sydney, Jul 1953 – Jun 1955.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter

1953
# 1
Jan
# 2
Feb

# 3
May
# 4
Jun
# 5
Jul
# 6
Aug # 7
Sep # 8
Oct # 9
Nov #10
Dec

1954
#11
Jan #12
Feb #13
Mar
#14
Apr #15
May #16
Jun #17
Jul #18
Aug #19
Sep #20
Oct
#21
Nov
#22
Dec

1955
#23
Jan #24
Feb
#25
Mar
#26
Apr #27
May
#28
Jun #29
Jul
#30
Aug
#31
Sep

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