That's a pretty dramatic cover on the final issue of a fairly short-lived detective pulp, DETECTIVE ACTION STORIES. I don't know the artist, but he came up with an eye-catching scene there. Inside are stories by Richard Wormser, Anthony M. Rud, Raymond S. Spears, and a couple of authors I haven't heard of, B.B. Fowler and Oscar Graeve. That's not really a sterling line-up, although Wormser and Rud were pretty darned good. Might explain why DETECTIVE ACTION STORIES didn't last all that long.
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Did anyone else get the feeling the tiger thinks the girl is a glass at the edge of a table?
Over the years I've owned three or four issues of DETECTIVE ACTION but never read a single story that was memorable, so I sold 'em all.
Oscar Graeve: The Keys of the City, New York: The Century Co., 1916; The Brown Moth, New York: Dodd, Mead& Co., 1921
It seems he was in charge from 1928 till 1935 of "The Delineator", a magazine of "American Fashion" for the world, and one of the "Big Six"
women's magazine during the fin de siècle period. It was also known for political commentary, serialized novels, short stories and housekeeping articles. It was published from 1873 till he merged with "The Pictorial Review" in 1937.
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Tiziano Agnelli
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