The Masked Detective, avenger of crime, battled evil the world over. He was master of la savate, kick-boxing, in addition to being a crack shot, skilled makeup artist and ventriloquist. Beneath that mask was crime reporter Rex Parker, who worked for New York's "Comet" daily paper. With the aid of Dan Gleason of Homicide and Winnie Bligh, beauty columnist, he struck terror to every dark corner of the underworld. The magazine made its debut in the fall of 1940, at the height of the popularity of the "pulp hero" magazines. It was published for twelve issues before it was forced to close due to the paper shortages of World War II. The final issue of The Masked Detective was Spring 1943. The Masked Detective returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s readers in electronic format.
Table of Contents:
Featuring a New Mysterious Crime Avenger
The Threat Of The Violent Men
by Sam Merwin, Jr. writing as C.K.M. Scanlon
Follow Rex Parker, nemesis of the underworld, on the trail of a ruthless murder combine when two criminal factions vie in lawlessness as they battle desperately for blood-stained loot!
Exciting Short Stories
Money, Marbles Or Murder
by Jim O’Brien
A dead ex-convict leads his parole supervisor into a grim web of slaughter!
One Had To Die
by Wetherby Boorman!
When easy living makes Mercury Vare fat and slow, he goes on a diet of gangster bullets!
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Under The Domino — A Department
