INTRODUCTIONManhunt was a crime fiction magazine published between January 1953 and April-May 1967. Most issues were digest-sized, though collectors prize the few larger-format issues from 1957-58, which are generally harder to find. It was originally titled Manhunt Detective Story Monthly, but that was soon shortened to simply Manhunt, the name with which mystery readers are most familiar today. It ran for a total of 114 issues.
It was harder-edged than its competitors Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, dealing more with noir, hardboiled, and crime tales than traditional mysteries. Its closest competitor was probably Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, though MSMM generally featured lower-quality work. If you look at the names published in all these magazi
