Publication: Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930

Publication: Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930Publication Record # 339279 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Date: 1930-10-00
Publisher: Techni-Craft Publishing Corp.
Price:
$0.25^?$: US dollar
Pages: 100
Format:
bedsheet^?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
Type: MAGAZINE
Notes:
- Trimmed edges.
- Pages are numbered 865-960.
- Cover is an illustration for the story "The Flower of Evil."
- Cover artist not credited; signature "HVB" on the artwork, almost certainly indicating Howard V. Brown. The tall lettering is exactly his style.
- In place of the usual opening essay by Gernsback, there is an announcement that the November issue will be 7x10" rather than 9x12".
- Story art is credited by artist last name only.
- Art for "The Clasp of Doom" and "The Carewe Murder Mystery (Part 2 of 2)" is signed "Jay Gould."
- Artwork for "Scientific Actuality: The Most Dangerous Forgeries" consists of a photograph.
- "How Good a Detective Are You?" is a monthly puzzle or brain teaser.
- "Scientific Actuality" is a series of factual articles that appeared in each issue of the magazine.
- "The Reader's Verdict" is a letters column.
- "Book Reviews" is titled thus, and consists of short reviews of current fiction and non-fiction books.

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