Total Pulp Experience. These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook and features every story, every editorial, and every column of the original pulp magazine.
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:
Feature Novel, Complete In This Issue
Welcome, Stranger
by Dale Boyd
It was Smith & Wesson Humphrey’s duty to show how tough he was — when he returned from overseas to find his town taken over by killers, clip-joint artists, and similar scum.
Shorter Fiction
Hairline Of Death
by Laurence Donovan
Everywhere she went, those two faces haunted her... but it took the Mad Barber to search out the evil motives.
The Lame Must Limp
by Harold de Polo
Game-warden Chan Buzzell dug into his common sense for a solution when killers decided that he’d lived too long.
On The Spot
by Henry Hortons
There had to be a connection between the murder and the big-time gamblers. But the answer startled Detective Dysart.
Brush With Murder
by Camford Sheavely
The special talents of a meek brush salesman were pitted against grim odds when he became a murder suspect.
Special Crime Article
Death In Bloom
by David Carver