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Black Book Detective eBook #34 July 1939 - [Download] #RE277
Black Book Detective eBook #34 July 1939
 

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Radio Archives Pulp Classics
Black Book Detective eBook 
#34 July 1939 
by G. Wayman Jones
 
Black Book Detective magazine was probably best known for its long-running series of adventure stories featuring the crimefighter known as The Black Bat. But The Black Bat didn't appear until six years into the magazine's run with the July 1939 issue. The magazine first hit the newsstands with the June 1933 issue. For the next six years, it tried different approaches. Issue one began with a featured novel and several backup short stories. The following year it started promoting "three new complete novels" in each magazine, but abandoned that approach after four issues. It then tried shorter novelets, combined with short stories. In 1935 and 1936, it tried the "weird menace" approach, featuring scantily-clad women in peril on the covers, then switched back to hard crime. In 1938 they tried featuring recurring characters in their main novel. Gentleman thief Raffles appeared in two consecutive issues. Jonathan Drake, Ace Manhunter appeared in three issues.
 
The editors struck gold with The Black Bat, who first appeared in the July 1939 issue. Supposedly blind District Attorney Tony Quinn was secretly the master crime fighter known as The Black Bat. The stories were credited to the house name of G. Wayman Jones, but in actuality were written mainly by Norman A. Daniels. The Black Bat stories ran exclusively in the bi-monthly Black Book Detective magazine until it finally printed its last issue in the Winter of 1953. Black Book Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
 
Table of Contents:
 
A Complete Feature-Length Black Bat Novel
Brand of the Black Bat
by G. Wayman Jones
Doomed to darkness by a murder monger, the Black Bat makes darkness his weapon — and a Mysterious Avenger is born! The foul, ruthless rule of a Lord of Crime, striking terror to a city, calls for the daring and swift justice of Tony Quinn.
 
Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s. All eBooks produced by Radio Archives are available in ePub and Mobi formats for the ultimate in compatibility. If you have a Kindle, the Mobi version is what you want. If you have an iPad/iPhone, Android, or Nook, then the ePub version is what you want.

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5 of 5 Holy Pulp, Black Bat! November 9, 2022
Reviewer: Ian from Pennsylvania, United States  
This first installment of the "Black Bat" hero pulps was also my first look at RA's ebooks...and rest assured they are superbly formatted for E-readers above all other competitors I've patronized! "The Black Bat" was initially a (cough) blind purchase, but this literary leap of faith paid off: it was intensely entertaining, funny, and fast paced! This issue's tale may not have the depth of, say, a "Spider" story, but it was enjoyable all the same. Not only am I sold on this series, I'm sold on Radio Archives!

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