Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930
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Overview:
- Title: Amazing Detective Tales, October 1930
- Author: Hugo Gernsback
- Year: 1930
- Publisher: Techni-Craft Publishing Corp.
- Price: $0.25
- Pages: 100
- Binding: bedsheet
- Type: MAGAZINE
- Title Reference: Murder in the Fourth Dimension
- Notes:
- Trimmed edges.
- Pages are numbered 865-960.
- Cover is an illustration for the story "The Flower of Evil."
- Cover artist not credited; signature "HVB" on the artwork, almost certainly indicating Howard V. Brown. The tall lettering is exactly his style.
- In place of the usual opening essay by Gernsback, there is an announcement that the November issue will be 7x10" rather than 9x12".
- Story art is credited by artist last name only.
- Art for "The Clasp of Doom" and "The Carewe Murder Mystery (Part 2 of 2)" is signed "Jay Gould."
- Artwork for "Scientific Actuality: The Most Dangerous Forgeries" consists of a photograph.
- "How Good a Detective Are You?" is a monthly puzzle or brain teaser.
- "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 Reviews" is titled thus, and consists of short reviews of current fiction and non-fiction books.