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 134 titles and 5,328 issues in our 'Detective Category' for you to enjoy.
Detective Comics, Books and Radio Shows
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective |
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| Available: | 102 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 77 |
| From: | Apr 1949 |
| To: | Sep 1953 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama, created by Blake Edwards, which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960. Shortly before his death in 2004, actor/comedian Alan King wrote a pair of short stories ... |
| Rocky Fortune |
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| Available: | 25 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 25 |
| From: | Oct 1953 |
| To: | Mar 1954 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Rocky Fortune is an American radio drama that aired weekly on NBC Radio beginning in October 1953. The series ended its run in March 1954 after 25 episodes. The program was created by George Lefferts. Frank Sinatra voiced the title role of Rocky Fortune for the entire ... |
| Rogues Gallery |
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| Available: | 23 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| From: | Sep 1945 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Rogue's Gallery came to the Mutual network on September 27, 1945 with Dick Powell portraying Richard Rogue, a private detective who invariably ended up getting knocked out each week and spending his dream time in acerbic conversation with his subconscious ... |
| Roy Carson |
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| Available: | 4 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 8 |
| From: | Feb 1948 |
| To: | Feb 1951 |
| Seq: | 1 - 36 |
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| Publisher: | T.V. Boardman Ltd/Popular Press |
| Categories: | Children / Teenagers | Detective |
| Description: | Roy Carson was a British hard-boiled detective created in 1948 by Denis McLoughlin and his brother Colin and first published by Boardman Books in their series of rotogravure comic books (1948-1954).
Roy, with his plucky girl companion Silk, faced all manner ... |
| The Saint |
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| Categories: | Crime | Adventure | Detective |
| Description: | The Saint, a modern day Robin Hood was created by author Leslie Charteris and as the original Radio program's introduction said, he was: "known to millions from books, magazines, and motion pictures." Several versions of the program appeared on different ... |
| Sam Hill Private Eye |
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| Available: | 7 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 7 |
| From: | 1950 |
| To: | 1952 |
| Seq: | 1 - 7 |
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| Publisher: | Archie / MLJ |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | (1950 series)
1950 - 1952
issues: #1-7
Artists on this title include Harry Lucey |
| Scientific Detective Monthly |
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| Section: | Science Fiction |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Science Fiction |
| Description: | Scientific Detective Monthly was a pulp magazine published by Techni-Craft Publishing Co. of New York for the first ten issues, and then by Fiction Publishers, Inc., also of New York. It ran for fifteen issues beginning in January 1930 until August 1931.
It ... |
| Sexton Blake Library |
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| Section: | Crime and Detective |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Published initially weekly and later as a semi-monthly by The Amalgamated Press based in London.
First issue was published September 1915 - Last issue published October 1968
Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who appeared in many British comic strips and novels ... |
| Startling Detective |
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| Section: | Crime and Detective |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Also known as Startling Detective adventures, a crime story pulp series, published by Fawcett.
DO NOT UPLOAD ANY OF THESE AFTER VOL 43 (1952) |
| Tales of the Texas Rangers |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Tales of the Texas Rangers aired on NBC Radio from 1950 to 1952 and later on CBS Television from 1955 to 1958. Film star Joel McCrea voiced the radio version as the fictitious Texas Ranger Jayce Pearson, who uses the latest scientific techniques to identify ... |
| Ten Detective Aces |
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| Section: | Crime and Detective |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Published initially monthly then subsequently bi-monthly by Magazine Publishers Inc. (A Division Of Ace Comics) based in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Preceded by The Dragnet Magazine which ran for 16 issues (Oct 1928 - Mar 1930).
It then was renamed Detective ... |
| The Thriller |
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| Available: | 176 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| From: | Feb 1929 |
| To: | May 1940 |
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| Section: | British Story Papers |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective | Masked / Mystery Men | Adventure |
| Description: | British weekly "pulp" featuring well written and illustrated, fast moving and atmospheric crime and mystery stories. Some well known authors and characters appeared in The Thriller incl. The Saint, Shadow, Blackshirt, Mr. Preed, J.G. Reeder. Writers ... |
| Walk Softly, Peter Troy |
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| Available: | 48 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 51 |
| From: | Dec 1963 |
| To: | Feb 1964 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Walk Softly, Peter Troy Detective Drama aired on Springbok Radio from December 10, 1963 to February 21, 1964. This series was produced in the Durban Studios of Herrick Merril Productions. It starred Tom Meehan, John Simpson, and Merle Wayne. It was sponsored ... |
| Whitehall 1212 |
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| Available: | 44 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 44 |
| From: | Nov 1951 |
| To: | Sep 1952 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Whitehall 1212 was a weekly crime drama radio show in the United States that ran from November 18, 1951 until September 28, 1952. Its cases were taken from the files of Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
Whitehall 1212, named after the then famous telephone ... |
| Young King Cole |
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| Available: | 26 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| Issues: | 23 |
| From: | 1945 |
| To: | Jul 1948 |
| Seq: | v1 1 - v3 12 |
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| Publisher: | Novelty Press |
| Categories: | Crime | Children / Teenagers | Detective |
| Description: | (1945 series)
Fall, 1945 - July 1948
Issues: 23 (V1#1 - V3#12)
Tracking: Numbering continues as CRIMINALS ON THE RUN (Novelty Press, 1948 series).
Artists on this title include Nina Albright, Wayne Boring, Joe Certa, L.B. Cole, Harvey K. Fuller, Hy Gage, ... |
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar |
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| Available: | 721 Shows |
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| Broadcasting History |
| Shows: | 809 |
| From: | Feb 1949 |
| To: | Sep 1962 |
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| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is a radio drama that aired on CBS Radio from February 18, 1949 to September 30, 1962.
The first several seasons imagined protagonist Johnny Dollar as a standard private investigator drama. In 1955 after a yearlong hiatus, the series ... |
| Za-La-Mort |
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| Available: | 12 Books |
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| Publishing History |
| From: | 1946 |
| To: | 1947 |
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| Non-English: | Italian Language Books |
| Categories: | Crime | Detective |
| Description: | Italian landscape in 3 series from 1946 - 1947 published by Edizioni Stellissima, Milan,featuring a character adapted from Italian cinema.
Crash Ryan notes:-
"I found this information about Za-La-Mort in a 2011 dissertation for Durham University by Joseph ... |
