Detective Short Stories - 06/39

Red Circle and its publisher Martin Goodman would later become more famous for their line of comics under the banner of Marvel Comics. Detective Short Stories was one of their notorious "Red Circle" pulps filled with violence and sadism. DECOY FOR THE CORPSE by Arthur J. Burks The Fernal dame shouldn't have put that hot poker on Dummy-Up Deakin—she should have known Dummy-Up's rep for doing his talking with deeds, not words! MURDER AT THE WORLD'S FAIR by Omar Gwinn Was the devil himself director of this greatest World's Fair—of had Detective Frank Owens imagined the savage blonde Angel of Love and Death who'd rocketed at him straight out of hell!