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DETECTIVE TALES.

DETECTIVE TALES. October 1947. (Volume 37, No. 3).

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. Text paper browned, light edge wear, some rubbing to spine edge, a good to very good copy. (32578). Item #32578

Price: $30.00