Yikes! What a disturbing cover by Walter Baumhofer for this issue of DIME DETECTIVE. I'm sure there are quite a few jolts in the stories, too. Authors in this issue include Fred MacIsaac (with a Rambler story), William E. Barrett (with a Needle Mike story), John K. Butler (with a "Tricky" Enright story--I'm not familiar with that character at all), Leslie T. White (with a Duke and Phyllis Martendel story--nope, don't know them, either), and forgotten pulpster Denslow M. Dade.
Hmm. Butler's Steve Midnight stories didn't begin in Dime Detective until 1940, but I enjoyed those. I never heard of 'Tricky' Enright either, but now I'm curious.
ReplyDeleteKind of surprised there wasn't a Fredrick Nebel story in the issue, but I guess even a guy as prolific as he was had to take a break now and then.
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Wonder if the Butler cover story is in any way an ancestor of "The Second Coming", one of the several Joe Gores stories that Got To Me in a big way upon first reading them as a kid, and that one key to nudging me along to being an anti-death penalty person...Baumhofer might not've held sentiments similar to those of Gores, at very least...
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ReplyDeleteOr might've, as I think I was trying to write (probably with distraction).
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