lbcolefan

Crime magazines were aimed at the same audience as adventure mags. There’s lots of great gga covers from the 40’s and 50’s. Unfortunately, most of the 60’s and 70’s mags had photo covers.

I don’t really collect crime mags with photo covers except for these two. With titles and cover logos like Strange Murder Stories and Weird Detective I just couldn’t resist them. I have 5 of the 6 issues of Strange Murder Stories and both issues of Weird Detective. I’m not sure how rare they are but these are the only copies I’ve ever seen.

A few of these covers may not be appropriate for this forum, if anyone if offended let me know and I’ll remove them.

2 hours ago, PopKulture said:

I came across this in the August 1948 issue of Esquire. I’m sure Cole fans will recognize this pose. I wish I had the comic to go along with it!

 

Here’s a new one in really nice condition from 1952.