03/01/2025
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Black Mask #129 (Facsimile Edition)
By Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy, Erle Stanley Gardner, Frederick Nebel, Henry Wallace Phillips, Lester Reynard, Raoul F. Whitfield, and Eugene Cunningham; illustrated by Arthur Rodman Bowker and Henry C. Murphy, Jr.
Quite simply, Black Mask magazine is the most important Detective fiction magazine ever published, printing the most significant works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner, among others over its 20-year life. This facsimile of the September 1929 issue represents Black Mask at its peak with the first installment of The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, along with stories by Erle Stanley Gardner, Horace McCoy, Frederick Nebel, and Raoul Whitfield.
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Dime Detective Magazine #12 (Facsimile Edition)
By Carroll John Daly, Frederick Nebel, J. Allan Dunn, and John Lawrence; illustrated by John Fleming Gould and William Reusswig
Dime Detective magazine was the flagship detective pulp in the Popular Publications stable, running for almost 300 issues over twenty years. The October 1932 issue contains stories by Carroll John Daly, J. Allan Dunn, and Frederick Nebel, and includes installments in the Cardigan and Vee Brown series.
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Shock #3 (Facsimile Edition)
By Frederick C. Davis, Scott O’Hara, John Bender, Theodore Surgeon, John D. MacDonald, Bruce Cassidy, and Marian O’Hearn; illustrated Everett Raymond Kinstler and Monroe Eisenberg
Shock was launched in 1948 by Popular Publications as a companion magazine to its primary detective pulps, Dime Detective and Black Mask, concentrating on weird-mystery stories. The third issue contains stories by Frederick C. Davis, Theodore Sturgeon, and John D. MacDonald.
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