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:
Outstanding Complete Novel
Trail To Tragedy
by Ray Cummings
When young Royce’s rough, tough private-detective friend Drake invited Royce to pay a visit to the shamus and his bride in Quebec, none of them knew or suspected what a spine-chilling adventure in murderous skulduggery lay ahead!
Unusual Novelettes
No Holiday For Murder
by Laurence Donovan
What developed when those hot slugs smashed into that barber shop was strictly red-handed death business for scrappy semi-pro detective Joe Bunt!
Interview With Death
by Randolph Barr
Newshawk Joe Lake discovered his interviewee was deceased — and that the killers had arranged for a splendid headline announcing his own very drastic demise!
Short Stories
Murder’s Monogram
by Robert Leslie Bellem
In this bizarre case a book had been borrowed overtime from a private library for sinister purposes — and Detective Sharpe knew the penalty would be paid in blood!
Dialogue Of Doom
by Max Neilson
There was a recording of Martin’s voice threatening a murder that happened.
Brushless Cream
by Lew Merrill
Ace investigator Somervell discovered worse things than bubonic plague in this deadly, fantastic set-up!
Last Trophy
by Harold De Polo
Ex-racketeer Max Golan was an artistic collector of guns belonging to men he had killed — but this latest one contained an irony he could not foresee.
Special Crime Features
Post-War Narcotic Peril
by Gerald Doheny
A Scholar And A Murderer
by Will Nichols
Phony Phone Tips
by Ellery Watson Calder
Ransom For The Dead
by Jeff Williams
Unsafe Safe Openers
by Joseph Macintosh
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.
