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DETECTIVE TALES.

DETECTIVE TALES. August 1935. (Volume 1, No. 1).

Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1935. Octavo, single issue, cover by Walter Baumhofer, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Franklin Martin, Frederick C. Davis, Paul Ernst, Norvell W. Page, R. T. M. Scott 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 tanning to text paper, mild edge wear, a fine copy. (35089). Item #35089

Price: $850.00