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The Mysterious Traveler Magazine    (about)

A mixed-genre magazine, tie-in to a popular radio show.
Publishers: Grace Publishing Co.; Buffalo, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1951










v1 #1
Nov


1952
v1 #2
Jan


v1 #3
Mar



v1 #4
Jun



# 5





The Mysterious Wu Fang    (about)

A character pulp. The lead novels are usually SF in nature, but the back up stories almost never are.
Publishers: Popular Publications; Chicago.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1935








v1 #1
Sep

v1 #2
Oct

v1 #3
Nov

v1 #4
Dec

1936
v2 #1
Jan

v2 #2
Feb

v2 #3
Mar
v2 #4
Apr (unpublished)










The Mysterious Wu Fang (Canada)    (about)

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1936

Feb












Mystery (1932)    (about)

--- see under The Illustrated Detective Magazine.


Mystery:

Mystery started in 1979 as a limited-distribution title, shifting to a nationally-distributed, slick, quarto-sized, magazine in January 1981. After 9 issues it converted to a digest, closing after a further two issues.

  —  Mystery

Publishers: Mystery Magazine Inc.; Glendale, Los Angeles, CA.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1979










v1 #1
Nov/Dec


1980


v1 #2
Mar/Apr



v1 #3
Jun/Jul







1981
v2 #1
Jan


v2 #2
Mar


v2 #3
May








  —  Mystery Magazine

Title changed from Mystery.
Publishers: Mystery Magazine Inc.; Glendale, Los Angeles, CA.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1981






v3 #1
#7
Jul


v3 #2
#8
Sep




1982
v3 #3
#9
Jan



v4 #1
#10
Apr



v4 #2
#11
Jul







Mystery Adventure(s) (Magazine)    (about)

--- see under New Mystery Adventures.


Mystery and Detection    (about)

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.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1934
# 1

# 2











1935



v1 #3
Apr

v1 #4
May

v1 #5
Jun

v1 #6
Jul

v2 #1
Aug

v2 #2
Sep

v2 #3
Oct




Mystery Book Magazine:

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.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1945






v1 #1
Jul

v1 #2
Aug

v1 #3
Sep

v1 #4
Oct

v2 #1
Nov

v2 #2
Dec

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)


1947
v5 #1
Jan (No. 17)


v5 #2
Mar (No.


v5 #3
May (No.





v6 #1
Fall



1948
v6 #2
Winter



v6 #3
Spring



v7 #1
Summer



v7 #2
Fall


v7 #3
Winter

1949

v8 #1
Spring


v8 #2
2nd Spring



v8 #3
Summer



v9 #1
Fall



1950
v9 #2
Winter



v9 #3
Spring



v10 #1
Summer






  —  Giant Detective

Title changed from Mystery Book Magazine.
Publishers: Best Publications, Inc.; 10 East 40th Street, New York, NY.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mid-Dec
Winter Spring Summer Fall Winter
1950









v10 #2
Fall



1951
v10 #3
Winter














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