While picking out something to write about pulp-wise, you can't help looking at the covers. Yeah, back in the day I would have bought a ton of these things just for the cover. Here's a good example from Populars line of Dime Mystery, this is the ones that came after the name change to 15 Mystery Stories.
I think the cover is by Sam Cherry, its a classic. The novel in the mag is William Campbell Gault's Keeper of The Cat-Bride, a very good tale in my opinion. I find most everything he did here and in Dime Mystery to be unique and well written.
Interior art pretty cool also, I don't know who's the artist, but nice.
Another classic pulp cover this time for DM, this time I think its Stan Drake he used this model a bunch of times, maybe his wife. The novel in this issue I thought was the strongest story, it by Franklin Gregory and the title is Once in a Murderer's Moon. He wrote some in DM and his output at this time was mostly in Adventure and Blue Book. I also like the story Dark Inquest by Cyril Plunkett who was a very prolific writer of detective fiction writing for everyone it looked like in the pulps and a bunch for Popular, New Detective, Detective Tales DM, etc.
An interior drawing from DM, looks to be either Everett Raymond Kinstler or Gerald McCan, they are oddly similar in style sometimes. Both of their bio's can be found at Pulp artists field guide.
So, if I was browsing the racks back in the late 40's early 50's, I would positively snag these 2 issues! OK, well if I had the dough 15 to 25 cents a pop, I would have bought doubles of each for trading purposes later, just like buying doubles of all #1 issues. An old comic book deal. Anyone else do this?
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