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THE HOWARD COLLECTOR. [ALL PUBLISHED].
Pasadena, TX: Glenn Lord, 1961-1973. Small octavo, printed wrappers. All published. A major source for material by and about Robert E. Howard. Many Howard poems, letters and fragments of fiction are printed here for the first time. Most issues are scarce, especially the early numbers.
MYSTERY MAGAZINE: THE ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE MAGAZINE [COVER TITLE].
Chicago, IL: Tower Magazines, Inc., 1934. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. "Four Men Who Loved a Woman" by Ellery Queen. Also Stuart Palmer (Hildegarde Withers), Maurice Level, Hulbert Footner and others. A large format, densely illustrated, bedsheet-sized pulp. "The fiction emphasized the woman's point of view, was often narrated by a woman, and featured as many feminine as masculine detectives. In the rear of the magazine flowered all the usual departments of a more conventional woman's publication ... That this magazine would publish much fiction of interest seems improbable. But without effort, it contrived to be superb. ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE selected outstanding writers who had made their mark in the 1920s and mingled these with rising writers of the 1930s. Over the years, the magazine would publish work by top names in the mystery field, including Ellery Queen, Stuart Palmer, Sax Rohmer, Arnold Kummer, Hulbert Footner, Vincent Starrett and H. Bedford-Jones. The fiction was polished, often strongly compressed, and good enough for a large amount of it to appear later between book covers. The magazine appeared monthly for almost six years, sixty-nine issues, at ten cents a copy. After three years, the title was changed to THE MYSTERY MAGAZINE ... Covers were tasteful, bright, and uneventful, relying heavily on the faces of self-confident women. Inside was an astonishing amount of material: eight to ten pieces of fiction, four or more crime-fact articles, and up to ten continuing departments (about half of these slanted directly toward women). When the magazine was at its peak in the early 1930s, it offered material carefully calculated to appeal to most tastes and both sexes ... MYSTERY was as meticulously planned as an orchestral score. Its careful variations played upon every shade of reader interest. It was consciously polished, self-consciously feminine. A curious pared sound rang in its fiction, as if the stories had been edited with a chain saw, but the prose flashed with a bright nickel glitter. Slick the magazine may have been, and often over illustrated, but it was also considerably interesting and, for years, excellent." - Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. [287]-90.
THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Murder Millions" by Robert Wallace. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 408-414.
THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolf Belarksi, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Chinese Puzzle" by Robert Wallace. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 408-414.
THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolf Belarksi, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Masterpiece of Murder" by Robert Wallace. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazine, pp. 408-414.
THE SECRET 6.
Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Henry Alan, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Feature novel "The Monster Murders" by Robert J. Hogan. "...they represent [the four novels] some of the best efforts of one of the major pulp authors of the thirties." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 479-481.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Crime at Seven Oaks" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher writing as Stephen Gould short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Prince of Evil" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Death's Premium" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1942. Octavo, single issue, cover by George Rozen, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Alibi Trail" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by W. Timmins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Museum Murders" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Murder Genius" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a Steve Fisher writing as Grant Lane short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by George Rozen, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Robot Master" by Maxwell Grant. Includes stories by Fredric Brown and William Campbell Gault. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1943. Octavo, single issue, cover by Modest Stein, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Muggers" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a William Campbell Gault short story. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1946. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Digest magazine. "Gang War Returns" by Maxwell Grant. Includes a short story by John D. MacDonald, "The Whispering Knives." Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1932. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Inscribed on the contents page as by Walter Gibson/Maxwell Grant. Includes "Green Eyes" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1939. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "Castle of Crime" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE SHADOW.
New York, NY: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, cover by Graves Gladney, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. "The Wasp" by Maxwell Grant. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 486-491. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 570-573.
THE WHISPERER.
New York: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Established in the vein of The Shadow, James Gordon created the alter ego of The Whisperer, who posed as an underworld figure to fight crime. "For pulp fiction of this type, these were brutal, uncompromising stories of a type for which [writer] Laurence Donovan's gritty style was particularly suited." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 607-610. This is the final issue of the first run. The magazine was canceled in 1937 and revived in 1940 (running until 1942). Feature novel "The Lost Face Murders" by Clifford Goodrich (Laurence Donovan writing under the house pseudonym).
THRILLING MYSTERY.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, Carl Jacobi, Richard Tooker, and others. Includes a vampire story by Joe Archibald "At the Door of Hell." Publisher Ned Pines entry into the Weird Menace genre of magazines. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 573-575.
THRILLING SPY STORIES.
New York, NY: Better Publications, Inc., 1940. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Jeff Shannon, master spy combats Nazis in the U. S. The third of four issues.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1941. Octavo, single issue, cover by Rudolph Belarski, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction Edmond Hamilton, Don Tracy, Manly Wade Wellman, John Broome and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Murray Leinster writing as "William Fitzgerald," and a number of stories by Henry Kuttner, writing as Kuttner, Hudson Hastings and Keith Hammond, also a story by Margaret St. Clair. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, cover by Earle Bergey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Earthlight" by Arthur C. Clarke. Also fiction by Raymond F. Jones, Fredric Brown, William Tenn and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.
THRILLING WONDER STORIES.
New York: Standard Magazines, Inc., 1953. Octavo, single issue, cover by Jack Coggins, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Robert Sheckley, Kendell Foster Crossen, George O. Smith and others. Tymm and Ashley, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 743-762.