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[Darwination]

The v01n01 and not a bad copy, but a funky darkish stripe over the center across the center of the book FPS cover.

[dickymoe74]

On 5/28/2024 at 11:19 PM, Darwination said:

Never seen this cool cover,  I need to find one.....  Very Cool!

[dickymoe74]

On 5/30/2024 at 5:08 PM, AnkurJ said:

Picked this one up recently. Love this cover! 

Always loved this great cover art!!!  Very Nice!!!!

[dickymoe74]

On 5/30/2024 at 8:17 PM, Darwination said:

The v01n01 and not a bad copy, but a funky darkish stripe over the center across the center of the book FPS cover.

10 Story Detective 1st issue!!!!  Very Nice, I need this one, great cover art!!!  Love it!

[dickymoe74]

Just found this one on Ebay...  Had to have it!!!

[Surfing Alien]

True Detective Mysteries, August 1936.

Dalton Stevens Gun Moll cover art, Lindbergh, extraordinarily high grade... I had to have it 

[pmpknface]

On 6/6/2024 at 9:17 PM, Surfing Alien said:

True Detective Mysteries, August 1936.

Dalton Stevens Gun Moll cover art, Lindbergh, extraordinarily high grade... I had to have it 

That dress is held up by its own sheer will!

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/6/2024 at 10:04 PM, pmpknface said:

That dress is held up by its own sheer 

Stevens threw his Physics text book out the window for this gossamer cling-on for sure 

[Sarg]

On 6/6/2024 at 8:17 PM, Surfing Alien said:

True Detective Mysteries, August 1936.

Dalton Stevens Gun Moll cover art, Lindbergh, extraordinarily high grade... I had to have it 

This is a magazine, no? Not a pulp? Or am I confusing this with another Detective magazine?

[Darwination]

Defo not a pulp in the sense we tend to use it, but Detectives fictional and "True" all seem to get posted here from a cover art standpoint.

Fwiw, the pulp purists (not as many as there once were) draw a distinction where contemporaries did not always.  Plenty of authors or trade mags classified true detective/true Story/Confessions in with the same class as "pulp" even if the Trues were on better (not great) paper.

Been hunting some 20s True Detective Mysteries for years for early work from Dashiell Hammett.

There are cases like Startling Detective where a mag started as one and went to the other, but I think TDM was always "true."

[dickymoe74]

On 6/6/2024 at 6:17 PM, Surfing Alien said:

True Detective Mysteries, August 1936.

Dalton Stevens Gun Moll cover art, Lindbergh, extraordinarily high grade... I had to have it 

WOW!!  Love the cover, and in amazing condition too!!!!  I've never seen the one....  Very Nice!

[dickymoe74]

Another great Norman Saunders cover!!~

[Point Five]

For years and years I've loved the precode horror comic covers with skeletons playing jazz or classical music. I'm over the moon to have tracked down this tough pulp from 1935 (!) with a very similar cover theme. 

 

[dickymoe74]

On 6/7/2024 at 8:16 PM, Point Five said:

For years and years I've loved the precode horror comic covers with skeletons playing jazz or classical music. I'm over the moon to have tracked down this tough pulp from 1935 (!) with a very similar cover theme. 

 

WAY...... COOL!!!! - I've always loved this cover!!!!  Super Nice!!!!

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/7/2024 at 5:34 PM, Sarg said:

This is a magazine, no? Not a pulp? Or am I confusing this with another Detective magazine?

This is surely a Mag by definition, but, as Darwin indicated - these were kind of "tweeners" back then, and even now, there's really not another section to post them in so I tend to drop nice ones here where they'll be appreciated. They have a real impact in hand as they are big - mostly the size of bedsheets and/or Life magazines - so those Good Girls are large and in-charge

[Surfing Alien]

On 6/7/2024 at 9:12 PM, dickymoe74 said:

WOW!!  Love the cover, and in amazing condition too!!!!  I've never seen the one....  Very Nice!

Like most paper, these have their own set of challenges that make them real tough in high grade. Challenges here are they're large and skinny  so they are very floppy, the cover paper is thin, and glued spine paper that gets split easy. The final challenge, is that after surviving in nice shape for 80-90 years sellers love to ship them loose with no backing in envelopes where they get mauled by the post office I can't even

Edited June 8 by Surfing Alien

[Point Five]

This book's had a hard life, but way cool cover.

[dickymoe74]

On 6/11/2024 at 7:10 PM, Point Five said:

This book's had a hard life, but way cool cover.

Way, Cool cover and hard to find - Very Nice!!!!!

[Point Five]

[Point Five]

I had an Airbnb like this once...