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Perhaps the earliest detective magazine to employ photographic covers was Actual Detective Magazine, whose first issue appeared in November 1937.The earliest use of a color photo on a cover is the February 1939 issue of True magazine, with the February 1940 edition apparently the first to feature a gag worn by a damsel in distress.
Cover of the August 1934 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine Weird menace is a subgenre of horror fiction and detective fiction that was popular in the pulp magazines of the 1930s and early 1940s. The weird menace pulps, also known as shudder pulps , generally featured stories in which the hero was pitted against sadistic villains, with graphic ...
True Detective Mysteries was founded in 1924 by publisher Bernarr Macfadden. [1] It initially focused on mystery fiction, with a mix of non-fiction crime stories. In the 1930s, Macfadden realized the popularity of the non-fiction pieces and gradually phased out fiction. As such, True Detective Mysteries became the first true crime magazine. [2]
Pulp magazine covers (5 F) Pages in category "Pulp magazines" ... Detective Book Magazine; Detective Story Magazine; Dime Mystery Magazine; Doc Savage (magazine)
He made his first sale on August 24, 1931, to Teck Publishing Corporation, which purchased two paintings that later were used on the covers of Complete Detective Novel and Wild West Stories and Complete Novel Magazine. [7] Subsequently, Dell Publishing asked him to provide several cover paintings for Sure-Fire Screen Stories and Ace-High ...
Cover of the August 1934 issue. Dime Mystery Magazine was an American pulp magazine published from 1932 to 1950 by Popular Publications.Titled Dime Mystery Book Magazine during its first nine months, it contained ordinary mystery stories, including a full-length novel in each issue, but it was competing with Detective Novels Magazine and Detective Classics, two established magazines from a ...
Scientific Detective Monthly (also known as Amazing Detective Tales and Amazing Detective Stories) was a pulp magazine that published fifteen issues beginning in January 1930. It was launched by Hugo Gernsback as part of his second venture into science-fiction magazine publishing, and was intended to focus on detective and mystery stories with ...
Denis McLoughlin (15 April 1918 – 22 April 2002) was a well-known British illustrator.. After a career that spanned eight decades, British illustrator Denis McLoughlin gained a degree of long overdue recognition in the late-1990s for his hard-boiled detective illustrations that graced book covers produced primarily for the London publishing house of T.V. Boardman, Ltd. (Boardman Books).