Amazing Detective Tales, July 1930
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Overview:
- Title: Amazing Detective Tales, July 1930
- Author: Hugo Gernsback
- Year: 1930
- Publisher: Techni-Craft Publishing Corp.
- Price: $0.25
- Pages: 100
- Binding: bedsheet
- Type: MAGAZINE
- Title Reference: Amazing Detective Tales - 1930
- Notes:
- Trimmed edges.
- Pages are numbered 577-672.
- Cover is an illustration for the story "Horror House!"; association is not credited but is based on story content.
- Cover artist uncredited; signature "Jno Ruger" on artwork.
- Story art for all stories is credited by artist last name only.
- Story art for the four stories illustrated by Ruger are signed "Jno Ruger."
- Story art for "The Impossible Crime" is signed "Jay Gould."
- Artwork for "Scientific Actuality: Arrested by Radio!" consists of several photographs.
- "How Good a Detective Are You?" is a monthly puzzle or brain teaser.
- "How Criminals Are Identified" is an introductory essay. It is titled "Editorial—How Criminals Are Identified" in the table of contents.
- "Scientific Actuality" is a series of factual articles that appeared in each issue of the magazine.
- "The Reader's Verdict" is a letters column.
- "Book Review" is titled thus, and consists of short reviews of current fiction and non-fiction books.