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Bizarre Detective
Kitchen Sink Press - 1992

Notes:  Distributed as a boxed factory set, cards are slightly oversized, 3-3/4" 
x 2-3/4". Card fronts show cover from mystery/detective magazines popular in 
the 1930s and early 1940s; card backs provide an excerpt from a selected story 
and commentary by Bill Blackbeard of the the San Francisco Academy of 
Comic Art.

No.   Featured Story                              Publication

  1   Red Bamboo                                  Spicy Mystery Stories - June 1935
  2   The Purring Doom                            Dime Detective Magazine - June 1934
  3   Death of a Columnist                        Spicy Detective Stories - November 1934
  4   The Devil's Slaughterhouse                  Ten Detective Aces - June 1936
  5   Mansion of Monsters                         Spicy Mystery Stories - March 1936
  6   Muscle Guy                                  Greater Gangster Stories - June 1934
  7   Death Makes a Proposition                   Spicy Detective - March 1938
  8   Gorilla Girl                                Gun Molls Magazine - October 1930
  9   The Executioner                             Spicy Mystery Stories - August 1935
 10   The Mark of Tai Fang                        Romantic Detective - February 1938
 11   The Sinister Snatch                         Ten Detective Aces - November 1934
 12   Death Shows the Way                         Spicy Mystery Stories - May 1936
 13   Eye of the Fiend                            Mystery Adventures - December 1935
 14   The Amazing Case of the Blonde Dope Queen   Vice Squad Detective - ?
 15   Committee of One                            All Detective Magazine - October 1933
 16   Killer's Price                              Spicy Detective Stories - November 1936
 17   Brand of the Beast                          Dime Detective Magazine - September 1933
 18   I Must Have Five Corpses                    Spicy Mystery Stories - November 1936
 19   Spanish - and What Eyes!                    Breezy Stories - April ?
 20   Murder on the Sound Stage                   Private Detective Stories - June 1937
 21   Web of Death                                Spicy Mystery Stories - December 1936
 22   Mask of Nippon                              Thrilling Detective - January 1934
 23   Killers' Snatch                             Spicy Detective Stories - May 1935
 24   The Golden Grave                            Dime Detective Magazine - October 1933
 25   She Who Dwelled in Darkness                 Spicy Mystery Stories - April 1937
 26   Drunk, Disorderly, and Dead                 Private Detective Stories - June 1940
 27   Girdle of Guilt                             Spicy Detective Stories - April 1935
 28   Murder in Bronze                            Dime Detective Magazine - March 1934
 29   Moll of the Night                           Gangland Stories - May 1931
 30   I'll Grind His Bones                        Spicy Mystery Stories - October 1937
 31   Horror Hall                                 Spicy Detective Stories - December 1934
 32   Mouthpiece                                  Dime Detective Magazine - February 1934
 33   The Whisperers                              Spicy Mystery - April 1942
 34   Death Comes to a Gangster                   Speakeasy Stories - June 1931
 35   Death at Headquarters                       Spicy Detective Stories - October 1934
 36   The Laughing Trap                           True Gangster Stories - July 1941