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DETECTIVE TALES [CANADIAN ISSUE].

DETECTIVE TALES. July 1945. (Volume 22, No. 30).

Toronto, Canada: Popular Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Canadian issue, contents correspond to the January 1945 U. S. publication, though drops two stories. 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. Edge wear and creases, small tears at upper and lower front spine edge, a good to very good copy. (26098). Item #26098

Price: $15.00