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Publication: Amazing Detective Tales, June 1930

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  • Publication: Amazing Detective Tales, June 1930Publication Record # 340568 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
  • Editor: Hugo Gernsback
  • Date: 1930-06-00
  • Publisher: Techni-Craft Publishing Corp.
  • Price:
    $0.25?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 100
  • Format:
    bedsheet?8.5" by 11.25" magazines, e.g. early issues of Amazing; or the 1942-43 issues of Astounding.
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Cover: Amazing Detective Tales, June 1930 by Jno Ruger [as by Ruger]
  • 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.
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Editor Title: Amazing Detective Tales - 1930 • [Amazing Detective Tales] • (1930) • edited by Hugo Gernsback

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