Keen Detective Funnies was a short-lived (24 issues) comic book anthology series from Centaur, focussing on crime and detective stories, featuring reprints from Detective Picture Stories and Funny Picture Stories. There was the usual blurry blend of cops, costumed crime fighters (including the ubiquitous The Clock), G-Men, gentlemen sleuths and various other detectives (including a … Continue reading Keen Detective Funnies
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Detective Picture Stories
A short-lived (only five issues!) but significant anthology, Detective Picture Stories was the first-ever comic book to devote itself entirely to detective stories, featuring an assortment of police officers, government agents, amateur sleuths and, yes, private eyes, although the characters' actual occupations are often vague — typical of the era. Still, this early crime mag … Continue reading Detective Picture Stories
My Bookshelf: “The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery”
My Bookshelf The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Volumes One and Two Edited by Russ Kick Created and curated by activist, journalist, writer, editor, muckraker and comics buff Russ Kick, this ambitious anthology series by Seven Stories Press which kicked off in 2017 with The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery, Volume One: From Sherlock Holmes … Continue reading My Bookshelf: “The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery”
Super-Detective Library
A kind of British cousin to Detective Comics, SUPER- DETECTIVE LIBRARY (aka "Super-Detective Picture Library") never strayed too far from its roots as an anthology of comic stories featuring detectives, even if it did occasionally feature stories of war, espionage, adventure, fantasy and even science fiction. The magazine was one of those popular British pocket-sized comic anthologies … Continue reading Super-Detective Library
Spicy Tales: A Naughty Anthology
(1988-90, Eternity Comics/Malibu) Spicy Tales: A Naughty Anthology was a comic book from Eternity Comics/Malibu Graphics that ran for twenty issues in the 1980s and 1990s, and reprinted comics from the pages of the "Spicy" pulps of the 1930s and 1940s (Spicy Detective, Spicy Mystery, Spicy Advenutre, et al), and from the pre-code comic … Continue reading Spicy Tales: A Naughty Anthology