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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Editor Title: Amazing Detective Tales - 1930 • [Amazing Detective Tales] • (1930) • edited by Hugo Gernsback

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870 • The Clasp of Doom • short story by Eugene de Reszke
870 • The Clasp of Doom • interior artwork by John Fleming Gould [as by Gould]
876 • Death in a Drop • short story by Ralph W. Wilkins
876 • Death in a Drop • interior artwork by M. Marchioni [as by Marchioni]
882 • Shadows of the Night • short story by Neil R. Jones
882 • Shadows of the Night • interior artwork by M. Marchioni [as by Marchioni]
889 • How Good a Detective Are You? (Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930) • essay by uncredited
889 • How Good a Detective Are You? (Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930) • interior artwork by Pearsall
890 • The Man Who Was Dead • short story by Arthur B. Reeve
890 • The Man Who Was Dead • interior artwork by M. Marchioni [as by Marchioni]
898 • Scientific Actuality: The Most Dangerous Forgeries • essay by Edmond Locard
900 • The Flower of Evil • novelette by C. R. Sumner
900 • The Flower of Evil • interior artwork by M. Marchioni [as by Marchioni]
908 • Murder in the Fourth Dimension • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
912 • The Man in Room 18 • short story by Otis Adelbert Kline
912 • The Man in Room 18 • interior artwork by M. Marchioni [as by Marchioni]
916 • The Man No One Could Lift • short story by Fred Ebel
918 • The Carewe Murder Mystery (Part 2 of 2) • serial by Ed Earl Repp
918 • The Carewe Murder Mystery (Part 2 of 2) • interior artwork by John Fleming Gould [as by Gould]
946 • The Reader's Verdict (Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930) • essay by various
957 • Book Reviews (Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930) • essay by uncredited
958 • Science-Crime Notes (Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930) • essay by uncredited

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Publication: Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930

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