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Detective Story Magazine
Detective Story Magazine was an American magazine
published by Street & Smith from October 15, 1915 to summer
1949 (1,057 issues). It was one of the first pulp magazines
devoted to detective fiction and consisted of short stories and
serials.[1] While the publication was the publishing house's first
detective-fiction pulp magazine in a format resembling a
modern paperback (a "thick book" in dime-novel parlance),
Street & Smith had only recently ceased publication of the
dime-novel series Nick Carter Weekly, which concerned the
adventures of a young detective.
From February 21, 1931, to its demise, the magazine was titled
Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. During half of its
34-year life, the magazine was popular enough to support
weekly issues.[2] Ludwig Wittgenstein, the eminent
philosopher, was among the magazine's readership.[3]
Debut issue of Detective Story
Radio Magazine (October 5, 1915)
Stories from the magazine were first heard on the radio on July
31, 1930. The Street and Smith radio program Detective Story
Hour was narrated by a mysterious character named "The
Shadow."[4] Confused listeners would ask for copies of "The
Shadow" magazine. As a result, Street & Smith debuted The
Shadow Magazine on April 1, 1931, a pulp series created and
primarily written by the prolific Walter B. Gibson.
The success of The Shadow and Doc Savage also prompted
Street & Smith to revive Nick Carter as a hero pulp that ran
from 1933 to 1936. A popular radio show, Nick Carter, Master Promotional photograph for The
Detective, aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System network Detective Story Hour, with James La
from 1943 to 1955. Curto as The Shadow (1930)
Authors
Authors published in Detective Story include:
A. E. Apple
Agatha Christie
Carroll John Daly
Arthur Conan Doyle
H. Irving Hancock
Johnston McCulley
Fulton Oursler
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Arthur B. Reeve
Sax Rohmer
Thomas Thursday
Edgar Wallace
Editors
Frank E. Blackwell (1915–1938)
Anthony M. Rud (1938)
Hazlett Kessler (1939–1940)
R.B. Miller (1941)
Ronald Oliphant (1942)
Daisy Bacon (May 1942–Summer 1949)
See also
List of Street & Smith publications
References
1. Cox, J. Randolph (2000). The dime novel companion: a source book. Greenwood Publishing
Group. pp. 79–80.
2. "Detective Story Magazine [1915]" (http://www.philsp.com/links2.asp?magid=DETECTIVESTO
RYMAGAZINE1915). Galactic Central. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
3. Hard-boiled Wit: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Norbert Davis (http://www.mysteryfile.com/NDavis/W
it.html) Retrieved 27th December 2011.
4. "The Shadow: A Short Radio History" (http://www.old-time.com/sights/shadow.html). Retrieved
2010-08-01.
External links
Collecting Detective Story Magazine (http://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=5566) by Walker Martin.
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