Amazing Detective Tales, July 1930

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.