Amazing Detective Tales, September 1930

Overview:

  • Title: Amazing Detective Tales, September 1930
  • Author: Hugo Gernsback
  • Year: 1930
  • Publisher: Techni-Craft Publishing Corp.
  • Price: $0.25
  • Pages: 100
  • Binding: bedsheet
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: Menacing Claws
  • Notes:
    • Trimmed edges.
    • Pages are numbered 769-864.
    • Cover is an illustration for the story "Menacing Claws."
    • Cover artist not credited; signature "Jno Ruger" on artwork.
    • Story art is credited by artist last name only.
    • Story art attributed to "Wilson" is signed "George Wilson" in all three cases.
    • Art for "Menacing Claws" is signed "Jay"; art for "The Carewe Murder Mystery (Part 1 of 2)" is signed "Jay Gould."
    • Art for "The Temple of Dust" is signed "J. Ruger."
    • Artwork for "Scientific Actuality: What Price Clues?" consists of a photograph.
    • "How Good a Detective Are You?" is a monthly puzzle or brain teaser.
    • "Crime Prevention" is an introductory essay. It is titled "Editorial" 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.