Pulp Fiction, 1938 · page 60 of 116
10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 60: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is an interior story page from a pulp magazine, featuring the opening of a crime/detective fiction story titled "Finger of Doom" by Rex Grahame. The page includes a dramatic illustration showing what appears to be law enforcement officers confronting suspects, and beneath it, prose narrative describing detective Big Jim Phillips bursting into Captain O'Brien's office in anger. The story appears to concern a plainclothes detective newly promoted after three years of work, now confronting his superior about some undisclosed matter. The page establishes a hardboiled crime setting with dramatic dialogue and tension between the characters.
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Little Timmy wanted to be a detective—tike his benefactor, Big Jim Phillips. Timmy's experience was small, and his fists thin. But he knew how to point .... Finger of Doom By Rex Grahame 1G@ JIM PHILLIPS had only been out of harness one month, and he didn’t want to lose what it had taken three years of hard work to attain: plain clothes. But indignant anger forced him to fling open the door of Detective Captain O’Brien’s office. He stood there fighting to re- strain himself, blue eyes flashing fire, in front of his superior officer. Sis Sec ete = * = p> a Seats te ¥ ~* 7 Captain O’Brien jerked his head up in surprise from some reports he was reading. “What the hell’s the big idea, Phillips?” he barked. Plainciothes man Phillips drew a couple of breaths, gulped. “Well?” demanded the captain, his face slowly turning a deep red. “Are ye balmy, man? Speak up. What d’ye mean by bustin’ in here like this?” “*boo “™ com (@) Ss (E(@) m a)