The Super-Detective magazine was best known for the pulp hero Jim Anthony. Anthony was patterned after Street & Smith's popular Doc Savage. Anthony was one of the world’s wealthiest men, an amateur criminologist, a scientist, inventor, art collector, research engineer, and expert in aerodynamics. His skill at unraveling mysterious crimes made his name feared throughout the nation’s underworld.
When the magazine made its debut, Jim Anthony was not a part of it. The inaugural issue of Super-Detective Stories was March 1934. It featured standard detective stories and lasted 15 issues. After being off the newsstands for five years, the magazine returned with a slight name change. Known simply as Super-Detective, it now started off each issue with a novel containing the heroic exploits of Jim Anthony. There were twenty-five Jim Anthony novels, the last being October 1943. The magazine continued without Jim Anthony until October 1950, at which time the magazine folded. A total of 80 issues were printed, 15 in the early run, and 65 in the later series. Super-Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Feature Novel, Complete In This Issue
The Bookie Bets On Murder
By Roger Torrey
Gilbert wasn’t shipping his race horses for the benefit of a crooked bookie ring — not after he’d had a son killed in action. But then he found that sometimes even a private detective can’t prevent murder.
Super-Detective Novelette
Death Rolls Its Own
By Laurence Donovan
Cassidy had to take these two lovely girls to jail — but he didn’t know how determined they were not to go!
Shorter Fiction and Features
The Dead Man Wins
By Max Neilson
He loved his crippled daughter more than life itself, but now he felt helpless against impending doom.
The Pawn’s Move Is Peculiar
By Ray Cummings
It hinged on a chessman — a prize for the winner... death for the loser...
Hot-Check Homicide
By Rex Whitechurch
For Doctor Carlton, there were grimly personal angles in this murder.
Death Deepens Mystery
Multi-Wedded War Brides
Suicide Is A Sinister Subject
Hollywood Leg Man
These exciting pulp adventures have been beautifully reformatted for easy reading as an eBook. Radio Archives Pulp Classics line of eBooks are of the highest quality and feature the great Pulp Fiction stories of the 1930s-1950s.
