SPICY DETECTIVE STORIES was published by the same publisher of comic book SUPERMAN. Stories normally dealt with a healthy dose of sex, topped off with a little murder and mayhem. HEADLESS CORPSE by E. Hoffman Price - A man would be nuts to turn up missing when he had a sweetheart like this, Cragin decided. But looking for a missing man and finding a corpse makes it more healthy for Cragin to be missing, too DEATH FOR A NAME by Robert Leslie Bellem (A Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective story) Dan Turner insists that he is a detective, not a blackmailer. Yet when the dynmaite is put under the hood of the car...he looks for the girl...

"Sally the Sleuth is a reprint of a 1930s comic first appearing in pulp novels which were primarily sexual escapades. It was later transformed into a non-sexual crime comic series in the 1950s."--

Another bookful of Dan Turner stories from 1936, 1937, 1940, 1942, and 1943 issues of Spicy Detective Stories, Speed Detective, and Dan Turner Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are: Dead Man's Head, Falling Star, Silverscreen Spectre, Veiled Lady, Death's Passport, Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead, Star Chamber, Riddle in the Rain, Sleeping Dogs, and Sing a Song of Murder.

The most renowned writers, illustrators, publishers, actors, and filmmakers are drawn together in this exquisite portrayal of horror. Every media from comics, paperbacks, hardcovers, and movies is represented in full color.

Cook's accounts of periodicals are consistently informative, clear, and penetrating: his sensitivity to much of what he discusses, is, at times, positively uncanny. Reference Books Bulletin