Launched in fall 1941 by Mercury Press, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is a bi-monthly American digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction, and mystery fiction.
Covers of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in the 1940s and ’50s
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is named after the fictitious author Ellery Queen, who wrote novels and short stories about a fictional detective named Ellery Queen. From 1993, the magazine changed its cover title to be Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (without the “s”), but the table of contents still retains the full name.
Here below is a set of amazing photos that shows covers of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine in the 1940s and 1950s.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine cover, September 1942
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine cover, January 1943
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine cover, March 1943
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine cover, July 1945
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine cover, December 1946
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