That's a pretty daring cover on this issue of CLUES DETECTIVE STORIES, especially for a pulp published by Street & Smith, an outfit that could be a little stodgy from time to time. The art is by Modest Stein, not a favorite artist of mine, but I have to admit, I like this one quite a bit. Inside are stories by Donald Wandrei, Otis Adelbert Kline, J. Allan Dunn, J.J. des Ormeaux, Robert C. Blackmon, and Harry Lee Fellinge, all of them prolific and dependable pulpsters. I don't own this issue or any issues of CLUES, as far as I recall, but it seems like a pulp that would have been worth reading.
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That is an excellent, unusual Street and Smith cover for sure. Unusual not just for the (tasteful) nudity but also the vivid color palette — pulp covers generally tended to combine red and yellow. This one must have jumped right at you on the crowded newsstands of yore! I’ve never so much as caught a of glimpse this one in all my years of pulp gazing. Thanks for posting it!
b.t.
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