Publisher: Amalgameted Press
Publication Dates: March 1953 – 1959 ?
Number of Issues Published: 154 (#1 – #154)
Color: Colour cover; Black and white interior
Dimensions: Digest
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Publication Type: magazine
Numbering continues in Super Detective Picture Library (IPC, 1959 series)
Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: 1959 – [January 2] 1961
Number of Issues Published: 34 (#155 – #188)
Color: Colour cover with black and white interior
Dimensions: Digest
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Publication Type: magazine
Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database
Super Detective Library was a digest sized, 188 page comic with painted covers and black and white interiors that ran from 1953 to 1960 and appeared twice a month.
It featured a rotating roster of detective and science fiction stories from English, Canadian and American artists and writers, and an artistic and writing style that you don’t see anymore.
Most issues were original stories and art, however they would from time to time fill the S.D.L. with reprints of newspaper strips such as America’s Rip Kirby.
The years are possible not accurate because at first there were 2 issus each month but after the change of publishers 1 each month.
UPDATE 2022-04-05
Super Detective Library 017
Super Detective Library 056
Super Detective Library 062
Super Detective Library 084
Super Detective Library 151
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1953 1953 1953 1953 1953
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Super Detective Library 002 The riddle of the Frensham Will
Super Detective Library 003 Bulldog Drummond
Super Detective Library 004 The return of the third man
Super Detective Library 005 The great flying saucer mystery
Super Detective Library 006 The door with the 7 locks
Super Detective Library 007 The treasure house of Martin Hews
Super Detective Library 008 The case of the sinister castle
Super Detective Library 009 The island of Fu Manchu
Super Detective Library 010 The Black Abbott
Super Detective Library 011 The menace of the poison pen
Super Detective Library 012 The city under sea
Super Detective Library 013 Bulldog Drummond Again – Final Count
Super Detective Library 014 The men from the stars
Super Detective Library 015 Vanishing Policemen
Super Detective Library 016 The riddel of the Race Gang
Super Detective Library 018 The mystery of the hooded man
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Super Detective Library 019 The last jest of Angelo Yates
Super Detective Library 020 Menace from the Moon
Super Detective Library 021 The rocket racketeers
Super Detective Library 022 The secret of Lessinger’s loot
Super Detective Library 023 Kidnapped by Martians
Super Detective Library 024 The phantom of Dracos Island
Super Detective Library 025 Diamonds to burn
Super Detective Library 026 The phantom of the flying fort
Super Detective Library 027 Jungle Manhunt
Super Detective Library 028 You can’t stop the Saint
Super Detective Library 029 The planet of peril
Super Detective Library 030 Fatal Feather
Super Detective Library 031 The riddle of the city in space
Super Detective Library 032 The case of the secret archer
Super Detective Library 033 Danger – the Saint at work
Super Detective Library 034 Jet Scott and the sword of fire
Super Detective Library 035 Revolt on Venus
Super Detective Library 036 Crime under the ocean
Super Detective Library 037 Crime rides the spaceways
Super Detective Library 038 The Saint plays the Joker
Super Detective Library 039 The stolen crown
Super Detective Library 040 The case of the hunted man
Super Detective Library 041 Enter the mastermind
Super Detective Library 042 Dictator of the deep
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Super Detective Library 044 Kidnappers from space
Super Detective Library 045 Crime from the sky
Super Detective Library 046 The man who made gold
Super Detective Library 047 Baghdad Manhunt
Super Detective Library 048 The riddel of the vanishing spacemen
Super Detective Library 049 The man who owned the Moon
Super Detective Library 050 Lost Underworld
Super Detective Library 051 The mystery of table 13
Super Detective Library 052 Who killed the ghost ?
Super Detective Library 053 The case of the space bubble
Super Detective Library 054 The riddle of the blue men
Super Detective Library 055 Mystery of Peril Island
Super Detective Library 057 Despot of the underworld
Super Detective Library 058 Panthers’ Moon
Super Detective Library 059 The Saint’s sunken gold
Super Detective Library 060 The house of the seven flies
Super Detective Library 061 The Toff at Butlin’s
Super Detective Library 064 The five lives of Mr. Quex
Super Detective Library 065 Sherlock Holmes 2 stories
Super Detective Library 066 The gold-rush planet
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1956 1956 1956 1956 1956
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Super Detective Library 067 The Crime King
Super Detective Library 068 Diamond Hunt
Super Detective Library 069 The riddle of the bull-ring
Super Detective Library 070 The mystery of the moving planet
Super Detective Library 071 Mystery in Baghdad
Super Detective Library 072 The golden salamander
Super Detective Library 073 Peril beneath the earth
Super Detective Library 074 Sherlock Holmes 2 stories
Super Detective Library 075 The secret of the ocean planet
Super Detective Library 076 The mystery of Chinaman’s Island
Super Detective Library 077 The phantom racehorse
Super Detective Library 078 Sherlock Holmes 2 stories
Super Detective Library 079 The planet of lost men
Super Detective Library 080 Crime takes the stage
Super Detective Library 081 The golden horse
Super Detective Library 082 The man who broke the bookies
Super Detective Library 083 The invaders from the Ocean Planet
Super Detective Library 085 The Java wreckmen
Super Detective Library 086 The girl who never was
Super Detective Library 088 Blackshirt’s treasure hunt
Super Detective Library 089 The horse with the cloven hoof
Super Detective Library 090 Manhunt through space
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Super Detective Library 091 Mystery in the Milky Way
Super Detective Library 092 The mystery of the fatal photographs
Super Detective Library 093 The riddle of the haunted reef
Super Detective Library 094 The Mona Lisa mystery
Super Detective Library 095 Jewel smugglers
Super Detective Library 096 The riddles of the ring
Super Detective Library 097 Time Travellers
Super Detective Library 101 The riddle of the vanishing people
Super Detective Library 102 The House of Mystery
Super Detective Library 104 The mystery at the Mardi-Gras
Super Detective Library 105 The man who put out the sun
Super Detective Library 108 The mystery of the blazing cottage
Super Detective Library 109 The oasis of mystery
Super Detective Library 110 The missing millionaire
Super Detective Library 111 Sabotage from space
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Super Detective Library 115 S.O.S. from space
Super Detective Library 116 The photo finish mystery
Super Detective Library 118 The mystery of the masks of Manton
Super Detective Library 120 The man who stole a million dollars
Super Detective Library 121 Blackshirt and the Island of fear
Super Detective Library 123 The planet of terror
Super Detective Library 124 Desert Fury
Super Detective Library 125 Jungle Adventure
Super Detective Library 126 The runaway lady
Super Detective Library 127 The space pirates
Super Detective Library 129 Perilous Mission
Super Detective Library 130 The race of death
Super Detective Library 131 The secret of the devil’s ravine
Super Detective Library 132 Terror Island
Super Detective Library 133 The mystery of the frozen world
Super Detective Library 135 The secret of the Sahara
Super Detective Library 136 Dangerous Manhunt
Super Detective Library 137 The mystery of the robot world
Super Detective Library 138 The trail of terror
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Super Detective Library 139 The mystery of the knights of space
Super Detective Library 140 The mystery of the prisoner of Doom Castle
Super Detective Library 141 The jewels of death
Super Detective Library 142 The case of the man from nowhere
Super Detective Library 143 The terror from space
Super Detective Library 144 Invitation to danger
Super Detective Library 145 The case of the murdered Matadors
Super Detective Library 146 Design for murder
Super Detective Library 147 Dangerous Waters
Super Detective Library 148 The devil’s henchman
Super Detective Library 149 The haunted racehorse
Super Detective Library 150 The case of the crooked mile
Super Detective Library 152 The playground of fear
Super Detective Library 153 The threat from space
Super Detective Library 155 Marked for murder
Super Detective Library 156 Appointment with danger
Super Detective Library 157 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 160 John Steel Special Agent World War II
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Super Detective Library 161 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 163 The kidnapped planet
Super Detective Library 165 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 166 The House of Fear
Super Detective Library 167 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 169 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 170 The four faced bandit
Super Detective Library 171 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 173 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 177 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 178 Murder by mail
Super Detective Library 179 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 180 Shadow Castle
Super Detective Library 181 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 183 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 185 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 187 John Steel Special Agent World War II
Super Detective Library 188 The Shadow Mystery Man of World War II
