Detective Weekly was a continuation of the Union Jack, the storypaper which had begun in 1894 and which had for most of its life been famous as "Sexton Blake's own paper".
[1] It was a larger paper, approximately 25x32cm in size, and unlike its predecessor rarely used colour.
The first 130 issues concentrated on Sexton Blake, and his family history, with a wayward brother turning up.
This left The Sexton Blake Library as the only publication containing stories of the detective, aside from the comic strips in Knockout.
British researchers Bill Lofts and Derek Adley authored The Detective Weekly A Bibliography, published privately by Happy Hours Unlimited, circa 1987.