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RARA-AVIS: re: Pulp question.
To quote LoLehmann@aol.com on the subject of Pulp question:
-> I have a French magazine reprinting an illo by comics giant Jack
->Kirby, illustrating an Eric Howard story entitled "No Corpse, No
->Cash". It's supposed to come from a 1941 issue of a magazine called
->_Detective Short Stories_. I've never heard any other mention of this
->magazine; can someone confirm its existence ?
As the gods of coincedence would have it I just got through reading
about that very magazine (along with a LOT of other things) in The Dime
Detectives by Ron Goulart.
He says that _Detective Short Stories was brought out by Martin "fans
don't care a thing about quality" Goodman with the aim of outdoing _Ten
Detective Aces. It's slogon was "12 detective for 10 cents." It claimed
to be bimonthly but really only came out 25 times in the 6 years that
it was published. It was for most of it's run a mix of harded boiled
detective stories and weird-menace stories.
As for the Jack Kirby angle, Goodman was the fellow who started the
company that would one day be called Marvel Comic. And he drew on the
artists from Timely to draw the inside art on his pulps. Two of whom,
Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, where drafted to do the inside art for
_Detective Short Stories.
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