Sunday, September 09, 2018

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Star Detective, March 1937


Nice cover on this issue of STAR DETECTIVE. I don't know who the artist is. But inside are stories by three very dependable authors--Richard Sale, Roger Torrey, and Eugene Cunningham--plus others by authors I'm not familiar with. N.V. Romero, who contributed the featured story "The X-Man", has only that one credit in the Fictionmags Index, which leads me to think it may well have been a pseudonym. John Mallory and Richard Werner are totally unknown to me, and James Hall was a house-name. Still, this looks like a pretty good issue.

6 comments:

Barry Traylor said...

I think the cover was done by H.W. Scott

James Reasoner said...

Thanks, Barry. Comparing it to other Scott covers from that time period, I believe you're right.

Rick Robinson said...

Is that man coming in or leaving?

Sheila Vanderbeek said...

Artist is J.W. Scott, not H.W. Scott. Same last name, different style.

James Reasoner said...

Thanks, Sheila. You're right. I can recognize H.W. Scott's later covers for WESTERN STORY, etc., but his earlier covers were in a somewhat different style and I thought this was one of his. I got my Scotts mixed up!

Glen Davis said...

I've wanted to read that X Man story for a very long time.