I haven't read that many issues of DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY, but all the ones I've read have been good. This one sports a cover by Rudolph Belarski, and the line-up of authors includes Richard Sale, Hugh B. Cave, Howard Wandrei, William R. Cox, and Cleve F. Adams. That's a top-notch group, all the way around.
I happen to own the original cover painting by Belarski and it's hanging in my pulp room. A few years ago a big batch of paintings came on the market from DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY and I managed to buy several. This cover is the best of the lot and the most interesting in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteThat is very cool, Walker.
ReplyDeleteI have some Detective Fiction Weekly in the collection. But the best memory I have of this title was about 10 years ago at a book & paper show in York, PA, this guy had stacks and stacks of them priced at $75.00 to $100.00 each. And the conditions were mainly only poor to fair. Needless to say I resisted buying any of them.
ReplyDeleteJust after the Bordentown, NJ pulp show, another collector and I were offered 140 issues of DFW in nice condition at only $10 each. I already have them so I didn't jump at the chance but I should have because they looked better than my copies.
ReplyDeleteThis issue features the second (of two) team-ups between Daffy Dill and Candid Jones. I'm pleased to report that AHMM will be reprinting the first story, "Flash!" in their Mystery Classics department, sometime later this year. It's a corker.
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