POPULAR DETECTIVE: A THRILLING PUBLICATION - VOL.33, NO.2 (SEPTEMBER, 1947)
New York: Better Publications, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Item #7623
Small quarto (25cm); original pictorial pulp wrappers; 113,[1]pp; illus. Subtle tanning to text edges, a few tiny nicks and tears to wrapper extremities, else Near Fine. First appearance of David Goodis's short story "The Cop on the Corner," with contributions by Edward Churchill ("Location for Murder"), Joel Townsley Rogers ("Killigee Swamp"), Robert Sidney Bowen ("Murder Mustn't Miss"), Wayland Rice ("Model for Murder"), William Hopson ("Things Past Remembered"), and Joe Archibald ("When a Body Meets a Body"). With beautiful (if uncredited) undersea menace cover art, featuring a man slicing the air hose of a scuba diver.
Price: $200.00