If you are contemplating committing a crime, then our detective category
is certainly not the place to do it, as here reside the cream of sleuths.
Arguably the biggest fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes,
makes a brief appearance with Charlton's two issue run, maybe due to licensing issues.
Charlie Chan appears both in newspaper strip and comic book format.
The comic strip, drawn by Alfred Andriola, was abruptly dropped after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
After the war he made a comeback. Two examples we have are, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Prize Comics' Charlie Chan
and a later Charlton Comics title.
We have other big names. Simon Templar, known to us all as The Saint.
The Robin Hood of modern crime is a bad guy turned good. Ellery Queen, a mystery writer who helps his police inspector father solve murders.
The prolific Sexton Blake, plus a lot more!
We have 133 titles and 5,290 issues in our 'Detective Category' for you to enjoy.
Detective Comics, Books and Radio Shows
| A Case for Dr Morelle |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | A vintage radio drama series about a criminal psychologist, Dr Morelle, who solves murder cases which are too complex for the police. Morelle is played by English film actor Cecil Parker, and is alternately helped and hindered in his investigations by his secretary ... |
| The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall |
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| Available: | 7 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Jun 1944 |
| To: | May 1945 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall was a radio mystery series broadcast on Mutual in the mid-1940s.
Based on the novels of Phoebe Atwood Taylor (writing as Alice Tilton), the 30-minute dramas were produced by Roger Bower and starred Walter Hampden as Leonidas ... |
| The Adventures of Philip Marlowe |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Adventures of Philip Marlowe was a radio series featuring Raymond Chandler's private eye, Philip Marlowe. It first aired 17 June 1947 on NBC radio under the title "The New Adventures of Philip Marlowe", with Van Heflin playing Marlowe. The show ... |
| The Adventures of Sam Spade |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157 episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, ... |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | John Gielgud played Holmes for BBC radio in the 1950s, with Ralph Richardson as Watson. Gielgud's brother, Val Gielgud, appeared in "The Bruce-Partington Plans", perhaps inevitably, as Mycroft Holmes. As this series was co-produced by the American ... |
| Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator |
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| Available: | 59 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Oct 1951 |
| To: | Jun 1955 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Barrie Craig, Confidential Investigator was a detective drama heard on NBC Radio from October 3, 1951 to June 30, 1955.
Detective Barrie Craig (William Gargan) worked alone from his Madison Avenue office. Unlike his contemporaries Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, ... |
| The Black Mask |
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| Section: | Crime and Detective |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Black Mask was a monthly Pulp magazine published by Pro-Distributors Publishing based in New York, USA.
It ran from April 1920 to July 1951 for a total of 340 issues.
April 1920 - April 1927 as The Black Mask
May 1927 - July 1950 as Black Mask
September ... |
| The Black Museum |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Black Museum was a 1951 radio crime-drama program independently produced by Harry Alan Towers and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard's Black Museum. Ira Marion was the scriptwriter, and music for the series was omposed and conducted ... |
| Bob Crack |
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| Available: | 4 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 19 |
| From: | 1947 |
| To: | 1949 |
| Seq: | 1 - 19 |
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| Non-English: | Dutch Language Books |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Adventure |
| Description: | This was a Dutch series of Beeldverhaals which ran for 19 issues from 1947 - 1948. These tiny comics were published by Jago in Haarlem and measured 11 and a half centimetres by
8 centimetres, reflecting the paper shortage in The Netherlands after WW2.
They ... |
| Boston Blackie |
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| Available: | 198 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Mar 1944 |
| To: | Oct 1950 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881 - 1928). Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television - an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, ... |
| Box 13 |
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| Available: | 52 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 52 |
| From: | Aug 1948 |
| To: | Aug 1949 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Box 13 is a syndicated radio drama about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holiday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 aired in different cities over different dates and times. It first ... |
| Buck Ryan |
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| Section: | Newspaper Comic Strips |
| Categories: | Detective | Crime | Spy / Espionage |
| Description: | Buck Ryan was a UK newspaper adventure comic strip created by Jack Monk and the writer Don Freeman. It ran in the Daily Mirror from 22 March 1937 to July 1962.
Buck Ryan, the strip's main character, is a young British private investigator who fights crime. ... |
| Bulldog Drummond |
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| Available: | 34 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Apr 1941 |
| To: | Mar 1954 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is a fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name "Sapper". Following McNeile's death in 1937, the novels were continued by Gerard Fairlie. Drummond is a First World War veteran ... |
| Candy Matson |
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| Available: | 14 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 92 |
| From: | Jun 1949 |
| To: | May 1951 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Leading Ladies | Detective |
| Description: | Candy Matson is a radio program on NBC West Coast that aired from June 29, 1949, to May 20, 1951. It centered on Candy Matson, a female private investigator with a wry sense of humor and a penthouse on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. The program was notable ... |
| The Casebook Of Gregory Hood |
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| Available: | 16 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Jun 1946 |
| To: | 1949 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Casebook of Gregory Hood was a radio detective program in the United States. It existed in several versions - with different stars on different networks in different years. Hood was an importer in San Francisco who dealt in rare items. John Dunning summarized ... |
| Casey, Crime Photographer |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Casey, Crime Photographer, known by a variety of titles on radio (aka Crime Photographer, Flashgun Casey, Casey, Press Photographer) was a media franchise from the 1930s to the 1960s. The character was the creation of novelist George Harmon Coxe. Casey was featured ... |
| Charlie Chan |
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| Section: | Newspaper Comic Strips |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The Chinese-American sleuth Charlie Chan was created by Earl Derr Biggers, and based in part on an actual Honolulu detective, Chang Apana. Although Chan, like his real-life counterpart Apana, works for the Honolulu police he is very much a globe-trotter who solves ... |
| Charlie Chan |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Charlie Chan is a fictional U.S. Chinese detective created by Earl Derr Biggers. Loosely basing Chan on Honolulu detective Chang Apana, Biggers conceived of the benevolent and heroic Chan as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes and villains like Fu Manchu. ... |
| Charlie Chan |
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| Available: | 5 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 5 |
| From: | Jun 1948 |
| To: | Feb 1949 |
| Seq: | 1 - 5 |
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| Publisher: | Prize |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | (1948 series)
June-July 1948 - February-March 1949
Issues: #1-5
Tracking: Numbering continues in CHARLIE CHAN (Charlton, 1955 series).
Artists on this title include Dick Briefer, Bill Draut, Tom Golden, Carmine Infantino, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon & Manny ... |
| Charlie Chan Archives |
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| Section: | Comic Book Compilations |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | The character of Charlie Chan was originally created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1919, while visiting Hawaii. He was inspired to create a Chinese-American police officer, as an alternative to the stereotypical Asian 'Yellow Peril' villains, in particular ... |
| Complete Detective Cases |
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| Available: | 2 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Seq: | 1 - |
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| Section: | Crime and Detective |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Published quarterly by Postal Publications based in New York.
These detective magazines are filled with supposedly true stories about various criminals. Stories of murder and other lurid crimes predominate throughout. A look at the covers reveals another important ... |
| Crack Detective |
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| Section: | Crime and Detective |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Crack Detective (Stories)
Published every other month by Columbia Publications based in New York.
Robert W. Lowndes: Editor
One of the most memorable feature of this pulp is the lurid covers depicting a gorgeous dame either being threatened or interestingly ... |
| Crime and Peter Chambers |
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| Available: | 21 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Apr 1954 |
| To: | Sep 1954 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Crime and Peter Chambers is an American old-time radio detective program. It was broadcast on NBC from April 6, 1954, until September 7, 1954.
Crime and Peter Chambers brought to radio a fictional private detective created by author Henry Kane, who also produced ... |
| Crime Detector |
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| Available: | 5 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 5 |
| From: | Jan 1954 |
| To: | Jul 1954 |
| Seq: | 1 - 5 |
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| Publisher: | Timor |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | (1954 series)
January 1954 - July 1954
Issues: #1-5
Artists on this title include Bernard Baily, Sam Burlockoff, Mort Drucker, & Les Zakarin |
| Dan Dunn |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Dan Dunn was the first fictional character to make his debut in an American comic magazine, making him the forerunner of many comic book heroes. Created by Norman Marsh, he first appeared in Detective Dan, Secret Operative No. 48, a 1933 single issue one-shot ... |
| Danger, Dr. Danfield |
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| Available: | 26 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Aug 1946 |
| To: | Apr 1947 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Danger, Dr. Danfield is an American old-time radio crime drama. It was broadcast on ABC from August 18, 1946, to April 13, 1947, and was syndicated for several years thereafter.
The title character was Dr. Daniel Danfield, a criminal psychologist. Each episode ... |
| Detective Weekly |
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| Available: | 4 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 379 |
| From: | Feb 1933 |
| To: | May 1940 |
| Seq: | 1 - 379 |
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| Section: | British Story Papers |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Detective Weekly was a continuation of the Union Jack, the storypaper which had begun in 1894 and which had for most of its life been famous as "Sexton Blake's own paper". Issue 1 of Detective Weekly was dated 25 February 1933, a week after the last ... |
| Dick Tracy |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a square-jawed, hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and intelligent police detective. Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed ... |
| Dixon Hawke Library |
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| Section: | Crime and Detective |
| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Detective |
| Description: | The other, other "Great Detective", Dixon Hawke (although fans would say Hawke was a better read than Sexton Blake) appeared in The Dixon Hawke Library in 1919, which ran 576 issues till 1941. His adventures also appeared in the subsequent Dixon Hawke ... |
| Doctor Tim, Detective |
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| Available: | 7 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 13 |
| From: | Aug 1950 |
| To: | Nov 1950 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | "Dr. Tim, Detective," a radio series to present health education by means of mystery-dramas to interest Rockford's school age boys and girls, will be presented weekly on Mondays at 6:15 p.m. over radio station WROK beginning Labor day.
Dr. R.J. ... |
| Domino Noir |
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| Non-English: | French Language Books |
| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Detective |
| Description: | French Canadian pulp from the mid '40's.
Simon Antoine, millionaire, fights crime as Domino Noir, aided by the young reporter from Le Midi newspaper. |
| Ellery Queen |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Several iterations of The Adventures of Ellery Queen appeared on different networks, with the first one broadcast on CBS June 18, 1939, and the last on ABC May 27, 1948. The show grew out of the combined efforts of producer-director George Zachary and writers ... |
