One of several pulp reprint magazines issued by World’s Work as a spin-off from the Master Thriller series where the first Tales of Mystery and Detection had appeared in March 1934.
Publishers: The World’s Work (1913) Ltd.; Kingswood, Surrey.
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 # 2 |
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| 1935 |  v1 #3 Apr |
 v1 #4 May |
 v1 #5 Jun |
 v1 #6 Jul |
 v2 #1 Aug |
 v2 #2 Sep |
 v2 #3 Oct |
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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.
— Mystery Book Magazine
Publishers: William H. Wise & Co., Inc.; 50 West 47th Street, New York, NY, Jul 1945 – Jan 1946; Mystery Club, Inc.; 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, IL, Feb 1946 – May 1947; Best Publications, Inc.; 4600 Diversey Avenue, Chicago, IL, Fll 1947 – Spr 1949; Best Publications, Inc.; 29 Worthing Street, Springfield, MA; and later at 1125 E. Vaile Street, Kokomo, IN, Sum 1949 – Sum 1950.
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| 1945 |  v1 #1 Jul |
 v1 #2 Aug |
 v1 #3 Sep |
 v1 #4 Oct |
 v2 #1 Nov |
 v2 #2 Dec |
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| 1946 |  v2 #3 Jan |
 v2 #4 Feb |
 v3 #1 Mar (No. 9) |
 v3 #2 Apr (No. 10) |
 v3 #3 May (No. 11) |
 v3 #4 Jul (No. 12) |
 v4 #1 Aug (No. 13) |
 v4 #2 Sep (No. 14) |
 v4 #3 Oct (No. 15) |
 v4 #4 Nov (No. 16) |
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| 1947 |  v5 #1 Jan (No. 17) |
 v5 #2 Mar (No. |
 v5 #3 May (No. |
 v6 #1 Fall |
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| 1948 |  v6 #2 Winter |
 v6 #3 Spring |
 v7 #1 Summer |
 v7 #2 Fall |
 v7 #3 Winter |
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| 1949 |  v8 #1 Spring |
 v8 #2 2nd Spring |
 v8 #3 Summer |
 v9 #1 Fall |
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| 1950 |  v9 #2 Winter |
 v9 #3 Spring |
 v10 #1 Summer |
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— Giant Detective
Title changed from Mystery Book Magazine.
Publishers: Best Publications, Inc.; 10 East 40th Street, New York, NY.
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| 1950 |  v10 #2 Fall |
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| 1951 |  v10 #3 Winter |
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Mystery Book Magazine (Canada):
Canadian reprint edition of Mystery Book Magazine. Number of issues published not known.
— Mystery Book Magazine (Canada)
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| 1949 |  Feb |
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| 1950 |  v10 #1 Summer |
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— Giant Detective (Canada)
Title changed from Mystery Book Magazine (Canada).
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| 1950 |  v10 #2 Fall |
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| 1951 |  v10 #3 Winter |
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Short-lived magazine featuring fiction, non-fiction, contests, news, gossip. Published in the late 1990s, but number and dates of issues not known.
Publishers: Felita Daniels, Publisher; 304 Lover’s Lane, Townsend, TN 37882.
One of the many undated “one shot” magazines published in the UK in the years after the Second World War. Third in a loose series with Crime Confessions, Phantom Detective Cases and Dynamic Detective Cases.
Publishers: John Spencer & Co.; 24 Shepherds Bush Road, London W6.
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| 1948 | Nov | ||||||||||||
--- see under Street & Smith’s Shadow Mystery Magazine (UK).
Mystery Detective Stories (Canada) (about)
Original Canadian magazine that seems to have run for at least six issues in the 1940s, possibly in a variety of formats. The title also seems to drift between Mystery Detective, Mystery Detective Magazine, and Mystery Detective Stories.
Publishers: Super Publications.
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| 194? |  v1 #1 # 1 |
v1 #2 # 2 |
 v1 #3 # 3 |
v1 #4 # 4 |
v1 #5 # 5 |
 v1 #6 # 6 |
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Mystery Digest was one of the more successful digest magazines, publishing an impressive array of stories and authors.
Publishers: Passer Press Company; 527 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, NY, May 1957; The Grenville Press, Inc.; 527 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, NY, Jul 1957; Shelton Publishing Corp.; 527 Lexington Avenue, New York 17, NY; and later at P.O. Box 164, Cathedral Sta., New York 25, NY, Sep 1957 – Jun 1963.
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| 1957 |  v1 #1 May |
 v1 #2 Jul |
 v1 #3 Sep |
 v1 #4 Nov |
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| 1958 |  v2 #1 Jan |
 v2 #2 Mar |
 v2 #3 May |
 v2 #4 Jul |
 v2 #5 Sep |
 v2 #6 Nov |
 v2 #7 Dec |
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| 1959 |  v3 #1 Jan |
 v3 #2 Feb |
v3 #3 Mar |
 v3 #4 Apr |
 v3 #5 May |
 v3 #6 Jun |
 v3 #7 Jul/Aug |
v3 #8 Sep/Oct |
 v3 #9 Nov/Dec |
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| 1960 |  v4 #1 Jan/Feb |
 v4 #2 Mar/Apr |
 v4 #3 May/Jun |
 v4 #4 Jul/Aug |
 v4 #5 Sep/Oct |
 v4 #6 Nov/Dec |
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| 1961 | v5 #1 Jan/Feb |
 v5 #2 Mar/Apr |
 v5 #3 May/Jun |
 v5 #4 Jul/Aug |
v5 #5 Sep/Oct |
v5 #6 Nov/Dec |
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| 1962 | v6 #1 Jan/Feb |
 v6 #2 Mar/Apr |
 v6 #3 May/Jun |
 v6 #4 Jul/Aug |
 v6 #5 Sep/Oct |
v6 #6 Nov/Dec |
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| 1963 |  v7 #1 Jan/Feb |
v7 #2 Mar/Apr |
 v7 #3 May/Jun |
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