On this page are all manner of magazines and comics with Leslie Charteris items - not just the Saint.
Worldwide postage included.

Private Eyes magazines are reprints of old syndicated Saint strip cartoons.

Private Eyes Issue 1. Sept 1988. A reprint of The Saint comic strip first published in New York Herald Tribune March 22-May 2 1954. Mint (32pp). £15	Private Eyes Issue 2. Nov 1988. A reprint of The Saint comic strip first published in New York Herald Tribune May 3-June 13 1954. Mint (32pp) £15	Private Eyes Issue 3. Jan1989. A reprint of The Saint comic strip first published in New York Herald Tribune June 14-July 25 1954. (32pp) Mint £15
Private Eyes issue 4. May 1989. A reprint of The Saint comic strip first published in New York Herald Tribune July 26 - October 17 1954. Mint (56pp) £15	Private Eyes Issue 5. August 1989. A reprint of The Saint comic strip first published in New York Herald Tribune Oct 18 - Nov 7 1954 and Feb 7 - April 17 1955. £15	Private Eyes Issue 6. Dec 1989. A reprint of The Saint comic strip first published in New York Herald Tribune April 18, 1955 - Jul 17 1955. (56pp) £15
The cover art for The Saint editions of Private Eyes was by Bruce Timm. I have 3 mint copies nicely signed by him @ £20 each:

Tough Guys Wild Women reprinted 1940s Saint strips

Tough Guys Wild Women number 1 March 1989 with reprints of Saint comic strips from 1949 (shown: page 1 featuring Hoppy & Simon). Sorry, sold out.		Tough Guys Wild Women number 2 June 1989 with reprints of Saint comic strips from 1948/9 (shown: page 1). £9.00

The Saint's Choice magazines.

This is the first Saint's Choice. Contains The Million Pound Day from Holy Terror. All authors are English, & Leslie says he intends the next issue to be all American. 1945 wartime quality paper.	3rd volume, True Crime stories. 1945 U.S. (war-time paper hence fragile & brown - poor cvr). Contains The Human Torch - the true story behind The Sizzling Saboteur £25.	Impossible Crime. Science fiction. 1945 wartime quality paper. Contains The Gold Standard from Once More The Saint. £25	Humorous Crime. 1945 wartime quality paper. Contains Miracle Tea Party from Follow The Saint £25

The Saint Mystery Library

Number 1. 1959. A little worn. £3

Number 5. 1959. £5

Number 8. 1959. £5

Detective magazines with Saint stories etc

Detective Fiction Weekly March 18th 1939. Contains The Star Producers. Fragile. £20	Black Mask comic March 1944. Contains first printing of Murder Goes to Market, later included in The Saint on Guard as The Black Market. £30
Saint Detective Cases. Has dark marks around edges, but these do not rub off. £19.	Big Book Detective April 1945. Very fragile. Cover in 2 pieces (other small pieces missing). Contains Problem in Palm Springs from The saint Goes West. £20
Triple Detective Winter 1951. £12	Gourmet 1/67 £9 (page 6 illustrated here - article by Leslie is 3 pages and 1 column including a cartoon)

Rex Stout's Mystery Monthly Oct 1946. Contains Saint story Operation Luella, retitled Luella in Saint Errant, which they commissioned & is 1st printing. Mint condition, but the wartime quality paper has turned brown. £25.	Ellery Queen's Mystery Mag Nov 48 contains first printing of Salt on his Tail retitled Emily in Saint Errant. £20	Pocket Book Weekly Dec 15 1945. Nice condition, a little browning. Contains The Saint in Black Markets (one part of 3). £9
Pocket Book Weekly Dec 22 1945. Nice condition. Contains The Saint in Black Markets (one part of 3). £9	Pocket Book Weekly Feb 9 1946. Nice condition but cover a little worn. Contains part 1 (of 3) of The Saint in Trouble. £9	Pocket Book Weekly Feb 16 1946. Nice condition but cover a little worn. Contains part 2 (of 3) of The Saint in Trouble. £9

Suspense Jan 1959. Contains Quarterdeck Club, retitled Lida in Saint Errant. 2 copies, lovely condition, £20 each

Suspense Sept 1959. Contains The Prince of Cherkessia from Boodle. Virtually mint. My ref cfc. £20

Suspense Dec 1959. Contains Salt on his Tail, called Emily in Saint Errant. Lovely almost-unopened condition, but going a little brown here and there. £20.

Other magazines with Saint stories or Charteris items

The American Magazine Sept 1934. Contains first publication (condensed version) of The Saint in New York. Illustrations by Saul Tepper. £25	The American Magazine June 1936. Contains first publication of The Saint and the Siren, which was retitled The Smart Detective when it appeared in The Happy Highwayman. Illustrations by Donald Teague. Slight surface loss to cover.£25
The American Magazine Oct 1936. Contains first publication of The Saint in Hollywood, which was retitled The Wicked Cousin when it appeared in The Happy Highwayman. Illustrations by Donald Teague. £25	The American Magazine May 1937. Contains Publication of Thieves' Picnic (which came out in hardback 1937, but I'm not sure whether this preceded it). This is a condensed version and takes place in Haiti, not the Canaries. Also, all references to Hoppy are omitted. Illustrations by Donald Teague. £25
The American Magazine May 1947. Contains first (abridged) publication of The King of the Beggars, which appeared in Call for The Saint. Illustrated. £25	Detective Fiction Weekly Aug 6 1938. Contains The Saint at Bay which was the first publication of The Affair of Hogsbotham (later included in Follow the Saint}. The edges look curved as the cover is larger than the pages, so it bends around. Apert from a pencilled name on the front, this is near mint. £35

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