Publication: Amazing Detective Tales, August 1930

Publication: Amazing Detective Tales, August 1930Publication Record # 340581 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Hugo Gernsback
Date: 1930-08-00
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
Cover: Amazing Detective Tales, August 1930 by Earle Bergey
Notes:
- Trimmed edges.
- Pages are numbered 673-768.
- Cover is an illustration for the story "Vapors of Death."
- Cover artist not credited; signature "E. K. Bergey" on artwork.
- Story art is credited by artist last name only.
- Art for "The Painted Murder" and "The Scientific Cracksman" is signed "Jay"; art for "The Astounding Clue," "The Stamp of Doom," and "Vapors of Death" is signed "Jay G."; art for "The Vanishing Man" is signed "Jay Gould."
- Art for "The Phantom Killer" is signed "Jno Ruger."
- Artwork for "Scientific Actuality: Tracked by Ultra-Violet" consists of several photographs.
- "How Good a Detective Are You?" is a monthly puzzle or brain teaser.
- "When Is a Confession?" is an introductory essay. It is titled "Editorial" in the table of contents.
- "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 Review" is titled thus, and consists of short reviews of current fiction and non-fiction books.

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