Pulp Fiction, 1938 · page 90 of 116
10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 90: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Analysis This is an **interior story page** from a pulp-fiction magazine featuring the beginning of a hardboiled crime story titled "A Date with Doom" by Chester Brant. The visible text introduces Jerry Kirk, a rookie police officer just out of police school assigned to his first solo beat in the rough, deteriorating 8th Precinct district. The page opens with a dramatic hook—someone has killed a cop outside the precinct house—and establishes Kirk's background as part of a family of fighting cops. A small author portrait accompanies the story opening.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
They killed a cop in front of his own precinct house. And they laughed—. for they didn’t know they had made.... Len got his gun out, but before he could shoot— By Chester Brant iHE night _ just out of police school, and tonight, was windy, ‘for the first time, he was legging his wet with a_ beat alone. The prospect sent his cold drizzle, when _ spirits soaring. Jerry Kirk slammed It didn’t matter to him—in fact, he up the steps at the was glad—that his post was a dirty, 8th Precinct station tumbie-down section, where empty house, But neither warehouses and rotting docks formed bad weather, northe a graveyard of past prosperity. That baleful green lights was as it should be. All the Kirks had at the door, dulled the enthusiasm in started there. The Kirks, a family of his boyish blue eyes. He was a rookie, fighting cops. His father before him, 88 comicbooks.com