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Issue Details

Issue #4 [1]
Published June 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 1
Notes Used in SOTI, page160. Indicia (scan from bipcomics.com): MARTIN KANE, Private Eye (formerly My Secret Affair), June, 1950, No. 4. Published bi-monthly by Hero Books, Inc., 221 Conyngham Ave., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Executive offices at 60 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Entered as second class matter September 15, 1949, at the post office at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., under the act of March 3, 1879. Price 10c per copy. Yearly subscription in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain, $.75 including postage. $1.50 elsewhere. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Copyright 1950 by Hero Books, Inc., Contents must not be reproduced without permission. "Except those who have authorized the use of their names herein, the stories, names, characters, incidents, and institutions mentioned or portrayed in this periodical are entirely imaginary and fictitious, and no identification with actual persons, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred." Printed in U.S.A.

Cover Details

Genre Crime
Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood
Notes Used in SOTI, page160. Indicia (scan from bipcomics.com): MARTIN KANE, Private Eye (formerly My Secret Affair), June, 1950, No. 4. Published bi-monthly by Hero Books, Inc., 221 Conyngham Ave., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Executive offices at 60 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Entered as second class matter September 15, 1949, at the post office at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., under the act of March 3, 1879. Price 10c per copy. Yearly subscription in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain, $.75 including postage. $1.50 elsewhere. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Copyright 1950 by Hero Books, Inc., Contents must not be reproduced without permission. "Except those who have authorized the use of their names herein, the stories, names, characters, incidents, and institutions mentioned or portrayed in this periodical are entirely imaginary and fictitious, and no identification with actual persons, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred." Printed in U.S.A.

8 page Jack 'Legs' Diamond told by Martin Kane story "Legs' Diamond"

Genre Crime
Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood

1 page William Gargan Junior Detective Club story "How This Crime Was Solved-Untitled(Narcotics traffic)"

Genre Crime

10 page The Whyos as told by Martain Kane story "The Whyos"

Genre Crime
Notes Reprint from Murder Incorporated #8 February 1949; first page changed-Martin Kane added

2 page text story "Booked For Murder"

Genre Crime
Letters typeset

1 page story "The Counterfeiters"

Genre Crime
Notes Reprint from Murder Incorporated #8 February 1949

8 page William Gargan as Martin Kane Private Eye story "The Killing Punch"

Genre Crime
Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood

1 page story "Devil's Os;amd"

Genre Crime

1 page William Gargan as Martin Kane Private Eye (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix* "Photo of William Gargan as Martin Kane Private Eye"

Genre Crime