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DETECTIVE TALES.

DETECTIVE TALES. September 1945. (Volume 31, No. 2).

Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1945. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes W. T. Ballard, Day Keene, John Corbett 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. Edge wear with tiny chips, small tears and creases, scrape to upper right front cover, light wear to spine ends, a good copy. (28290). Item #28290

Price: $25.00