My ScrapbookA Kent Murdock Murder Mystery TOLD IN PICTURES! Is this cool, or what? Above is the actual cover of Four Frightened Women (1950, Dell), and right below is an ad for it. Occasionally touted as "the very first graphic novel" (it wasn't), it was number two in Dell's "Told in Pictures" line, Dell's ambitious … Continue reading My Scrapbook: A Kent Murdock Murder Mystery TOLD IN PICTURES!
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George Harmon Coxe
(1901-1984) George Harmon Coxe was a journalist, prolific pulp writer, and novelist; an early star of hard boiled crime fiction, and one of Cap Shaw's beloved Black Mask Boys. In a long and prolific career, Coxe put his name to over sixty novels, the last being published in 1975, and hundreds of short stories. His … Continue reading George Harmon Coxe
Jack Fenner
Created by George Harmon Coxe (1901-84) JACK FENNER is a rough-around-the-edges Boston private eye who originally popped up in several novels as the hands-on sidekick to the more genteel and refined Kent Murdock, a crime-solving crime photographer for The Boston Courier-Herald, way back in the thirties. Not that Fenner was exactly hard-boiled, especially in the … Continue reading Jack Fenner