The Super-Detective magazine was best known for the pulp hero Jim Anthony. Anthony was patterned after Street & Smith's popular Doc Savage. Anthony was one of the world’s wealthiest men, an amateur criminologist, a scientist, inventor, art collector, research engineer, and expert in aerodynamics. His skill at unraveling mysterious crimes made his name feared throughout the nation’s underworld.
When the magazine made its debut, Jim Anthony was not a part of it. The inaugural issue of Super-Detective Stories was March 1934. It featured standard detective stories and lasted 15 issues. After being off the newsstands for five years, the magazine returned with a slight name change. Known simply as Super-Detective, it now started off each issue with a novel containing the heroic exploits of Jim Anthony. There were twenty-five Jim Anthony novels, the last being October 1943. The magazine continued without Jim Anthony until October 1950, at which time the magazine folded. A total of 80 issues were printed, 15 in the early run, and 65 in the later series. Super-Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Novel of the Mouth
Trail To Murder
by Ray Cummings
A factory for murder! It was hard to believe, but the Scotland Yard man had said enough to make Drake realize that that was what he must look for.
Two Super-Novelettes
Ring Around A Killer
by Howard Prince
“What do you do for a living?” Pauline asked.
“Commit crimes,” the good-looking fellow answered casually.
Death Is The Last Chapter
by Randolph Barr
Rodney Scott hated his own daughter and all her boy-friends. But now, suddenly and violently, he could hate no more.
Short Stories
Dynamite For Dinah
by Cary Barton
Why should a murderer put a bullet into his victim two hours after the man had died of poisoning?
The Center Of Murder
by Walton Grey
There could be no doubt that the girl had deliberately swerved her car to run over a pedestrian!
Out With Homicide
by T.V. Faulkner
Northwest Wilkie had been generous in passing out keys to his apartment. Generous and not too wise!
Special Crime Features
Burke the Burker
by Gordon Dozier
Burial Takes a Prize
by Robert Jannings
The Corpse Comes Home
by Jhan Robbins
Super-Architect of Larceny
by John Latane
Arms Bearers
by Howard Macintosh
Atomic Larceny
by Will Nichols
Lives Sold at Auction
by William McCombs
Through the Nose
by Jeff Williams