Amazing Detective Tales, June 1930

Overview:

• Title: Amazing Detective Tales, June 1930
• Author: Hugo Gernsback
• Year: 1930
• Publisher: Techni-Craft Publishing Corp.
• Price: $0.25
• Pages: 100
• Binding: bedsheet
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Title Reference: The Diamond Maker
• Notes:
  • Trimmed edges.
  • Pages are numbered 481-576.
  • Cover is a prize-contest illustration.
  • Cover artist credited as "Ruger"; signature "Jno Ruger" on artwork.
  • Story art is credited by artist last name only. Artwork for "The Gland Murders" is not credited, but the art is signed "JR."
  • Art for "A Matter of Mind Reading" is signed "Jno Ruger."
  • Artwork for "Scientific Actuality: The Telegraphic Finger Print" consists of several photographs.
  • "How Good a Detective Are You?" is a monthly puzzle or brain teaser.
  • "Radio and the Criminal" is an introductory essay. It is titled "Editorial—Radio and the Criminal" in the table of contents.
  • "Cover Prize Story Contest" is an essay that describes a contest in which readers submit a story based on the cover art.
  • "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.