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Men’s Adventure Mags
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On 11/26/2023 at 9:24 AM, FoggyNelson said:

I hope some lucky guy finds the - Lusty island of lost women😃😃❤️

You do you, but I'm going for the Lost Island of Lusty Women, myself...

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This is probably a long-shot.  Anybody own the second issue of this one?

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https://archive.org/details/private-eye-v-01n-01-1959-11.-calyork-d-m

I know it exists but have never seen it for sale - an oddball mag very much in the vein of men's adventure mags (illustrated fiction, "true" stories, pin-ups, cartoons) with a detective theme.  This first issue is pretty scarce, but the second one is straight ghosty.

 

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On 12/1/2023 at 12:14 PM, Darwination said:

This is probably a long-shot.  Anybody own the second issue of this one?

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https://archive.org/details/private-eye-v-01n-01-1959-11.-calyork-d-m

I know it exists but have never seen it for sale - an oddball mag very much in the vein of men's adventure mags (illustrated fiction, "true" stories, pin-ups, cartoons) with a detective theme.  This first issue is pretty scarce, but the second one is straight ghosty.

 

Are you sure you (or your references) are not getting the 1959 series confused with the 1953 series, which also seems to have run two issues?  I really don't know enough, but this turned up when I did a little looking.

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On 12/2/2023 at 1:19 PM, OtherEric said:

Are you sure you (or your references) are not getting the 1959 series confused with the 1953 series, which also seems to have run two issues?  I really don't know enough, but this turned up when I did a little looking.

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Yeah, no, that's a crime digest (interesting in it's own right, I'm on the look out for cheap copies), and this series is a full sized saddle stitched magazine.  The second issue I'm looking for  was published in April 1960 and looks like this (horrible image, and the only image I've ever seen, from Galactic Central):

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P.S.  Sai from Pulpflakes (probably my favorite blog on pulp) has made this cool search tool for the Fictionmags Index:
https://pulpflakes.com/fmisearch/

It's not perfect but makes finding basic publication info on a whole variety of magazines much, much easier.  A little trickier to use in terms of tracking down artists and the like, but it still gets me where I need to be in the index quicker than clicking around.  I use that link *constantly*

 

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On 12/3/2023 at 12:00 AM, Randall Dowling said:

Tough book.  It's up there with Private Investigator Detective Magazine.

I think I've seen the Bouncing Betty issue of that one for sale, but I'd have remembered if I'd seen this second issue - as I tend to like a catfight :banana:  :

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Is it illustrated?  More like a pulp or a magazine?

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On 12/3/2023 at 1:19 AM, Darwination said:

I think I've seen the Bouncing Betty issue of that one for sale, but I'd have remembered if I'd seen this second issue - as I tend to like a catfight :banana:  :

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Is it illustrated?  More like a pulp or a magazine?

Great cover either way👍

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On 12/3/2023 at 12:19 AM, Darwination said:

I think I've seen the Bouncing Betty issue of that one for sale, but I'd have remembered if I'd seen this second issue - as I tend to like a catfight :banana:  :

private_investigator_detective_1956spr.jpg.f94e03967afa3135b4eca90f8b0ae7e6.jpg

Is it illustrated?  More like a pulp or a magazine?

I don't have a copy but I seem to recall that it's a magazine.  Both covers are pretty awesome.

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