Pulp Fiction, 1938 · page 99 of 116
10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 99: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Description This is a story page from a pulp magazine featuring the beginning of "Trigger Tribunal" by Leon Dupont. The page includes a dramatic black-and-white illustration at the top depicting what appears to be a violent confrontation scene with multiple figures, and below it the opening prose of a crime story. The text introduces parole officer Tom Fargo, who is hunting a killer and discovers he may have inadvertently provided the killer with a perfect alibi. The narrative begins with Fargo in his prison office, ordering that someone named Tony Balch be brought to him.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
By Leon Dupont = Tom Fargo, parole officer, hunted down a ruthless killer —and found | that he had made himself the killer’s perfect alibi. AROLE OFFICER TOM FARGO “Send in Tony Balch,” he ordered jabbed a button on the desk in the trusty. “He’s ready, isn’t he?” his prison office. Ordinarily Tom’s “He’s been ready for three hours, 2 mild gray eyes were twinkling with sir. In fact, he’s almost nuts waitin’ ¥# the good things of life, but now his for you to call him.” 3S brows were drawn down and his jaw “Get him,” Tom snapped and to 2 clamped like a vise. ~ himself he appended a thought: “If = comicbooks.com (ele)