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DETECTIVE TALES.

DETECTIVE TALES. July 1948. (Volume 39, No. 4).

Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1948. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes Day Keene, Bruno Fischer 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. [Reference: Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 153-157]. Mild edge wear, reading crease, a very good to nearly fine copy. (21294). Item #21294

Price: $35.00