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DETECTIVE TALES.

DETECTIVE TALES. February 1951. (Volume 47, No. 2).

Kokomo, IN: Popular Publications, Inc., 1951. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a John D. MacDonald story, "Over My Dead Body," and other fiction by Hugh B. Cave, William Campbell Gault, Richard Wormser 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. Mild edge rubbing, a nearly fine copy. (25247). Item #25247

Price: $75.00