Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1947. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Parker Bonner (pseudonym for W.T. Ballard), Andrew Holt, Robert Turner, Day Keene, Talmage Powell and others. Detective Tales ran for eighteen years and was second only to Popular's Dime Detective in their detective magazine line-up. "It was a colorful, urgent, vigorous periodical, foaming with cheerful excesses; it was one of the classic pulp magazines." - Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 153-157.