A complete issue · 116 pages · 1942
10 Story Detective, July 1942
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1942 — all 116 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 116 pages · 1942
This issue contains ten crime stories across varied themes. The cover story "Crime on His Hands" by H.Q. Masur follows a small-town youth learning criminal methods through a murder case. Norman A. Daniels's "Taken for a Slay Ride" depicts an invisible threat beyond police control. Maurice Phillips's "Deck of Death" involves death dealt through cards, while Robert Turner's "Filmtown Fadeout" centers on a screen star drawn into a homicide scenario. Additional stories include J. Lane Linklater's "Homicide Landmark," where a detective abandons his post for answers about an apparent suicide; George Beltz's "Design for a Rub-Out," featuring Inspector Donovan investigating a killer seeking self-incrimination; and "Satan's Scandal Sheet" by Russell Gray, where Lieutenant Durkee confronts a crime wave. The remainder features tales by Guy Fleming, David M. Norman, and Vincent Hartnett.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.