Saturday, December 27, 2025

Saturday's random pulp cover: The Phantom Detective "The Booby Trap Murders": August, 1944


 Boy, that bad guy sure looks happy as he shoots down the presumed hero.  This cover by Rudolph Belarki must have leaped off of the newsstand with that bright orange background.  I don't know much (at all) of The Phantom Detective but he lasted as a pulp magazine for a very long time, 1933 - 1953 with 170 issues.  This is the third highest number of issues for a character pulp, after The Shadow, which had 325 issues, and Doc Savage, which had 181.

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