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10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 112: Pulp Fiction, 1938

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# Page Analysis This page from a pulp-fiction magazine contains a serialized crime story ("10-Story Detective") continued from a previous page, alongside period advertisements. The story prose describes a scene where a character named Tom enters a building and overhears Tony Balch on a phone call, apparently giving instructions with criminal implications about timing. The narrative emphasizes Tom's cautious approach and the tense atmosphere. The advertisements flanking the story text include dubious offers for mail-order false teeth, tear gas weapons, and skin-treatment products—typical of early pulp magazine monetization.

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FREE Blue Print showi how to install Electric Tear Gas Shells in Stores and Banks for hold-up and lary protection, also Complete Sales Plan furnished with order or inquiry. HAGEN IMPORT COMPANY, Dept. P-371, St.Paul, Minn, > ue ++ a AP ear, NOW YOU CAN HAVE A NEW SKIN IN 3 DAYS’ TIME GET THIS FREE —and learn that what was considered impossible before—the re- moval of pimples, blackheads, freckles, tan, oily ekin, large pores, wrinkles and other defeets in the outer skin—can now be Gone harm- lessly and .ecOnomiecally at home in three days’ time in many in- stances, as stated by legions of men and women, young and old. it is all explained in a new treatise called J “BEAUTIFUL NEW SKIN IN 3 DAYS” which is being mailed absolutely free to readers of this magazine. So worry no more over your humiliating and complexion or signs of aging if your outer skin looks soiled and worn. Simply send your name and address and name the skin blemishes which trouble you most to MARVO BEAUTY LABORATORIES, Dept. 60-D, No. 1700 Broadway, New York, N. Y., and you will receive this new treatise Dy return mail in plain wrapper, postpaid and absolutely free, If pleased, tell your friends about it. 10-STORY DETECTIVE (Continued from page 108) door swung wide. He stepped in guick- ly, moving with all the agility at his command. From somewhere in the building, he could hear a voice. It was Tony Balch’s and it was crammed with anxiety and desperation. Tom paused only long enough to get the gist of the one-sided phone conversation. “... and don’t forget the time,” Tony warned, “It’s two o’clock now. We were together from midnight un- til now. Got that okay? Swell! I—” “You might as well hang up,” Tom said calmly. “An alibi won’t do you much good.” Tony dropped the receiver, turned swiftly and with the same motion whipped a gun from a holster. Both men fired simultaneously. Tom took the slug in his already wounded shoulder, but he hardly felt the pain. Tony Balch stared down at a hand dripping blood and a gun that had fallen to the floor when Tom’s bullet tore it away from his grasp. “Raise ’em, Tony,” Tom warned. “This is the end of all things for you. I warned you strongly enough. Now you’re coming’ back to prison—and the chair!’ “You wouldn’t say that if you didn’t hold that gat,” Tony rasped. “‘You’re like any other kind of cop. If you got a gat, you talk big.” Tom smiled just a little and tossed his gun far into the big room. Instant- ly Tony’s sound hand darted behind his neck and came away with a long, glittering knife that had been secreted there in a scabbard. Foul oaths ripped from his lips and he came forward like a beast descending for the kill. “So I’m gonna hit the chair, huh?” he snarled. “If I do, you won't be there. You’re gonna get the samé thing that damned Reade guy got. I’ slit you to pieces.” His knife came down in a flash, but it found only air for its mark. Tom had sidestepped quickly. Onky his left arm was good, but there was power behind it and the blow he sent. smack- Please mention Ace Ficrion Group when answering advertisements cComicbooks