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DETECTIVE TALES.

DETECTIVE TALES. January 1936. (Volume 2, No. 2).

Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc., 1936. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Paul Ernst, Theodore Tinsley, Frank Gruber, Norvell W. Page, Emerson Graves (Ray Cummings) 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 with a shallow chip to upper left edge and lower edge, a nearly fine copy. (35090). Item #35090

Price: $350.00