10-Story Detective Magazine Cover — page 6: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Trigger Man from Tarawa SS oe) BEE Sa, | t “7° it ‘a4? S15 ear _ per ‘ pa ey" CHAPTER I ORPORAL DICK McKAY, fresh from Tarawa via a Marine hos- pital, stepped off the train and surveyed what he could of the strange city to which he had come. It was a cen- trally located town of about one hundred thousand souls, no dirtier, no cleaner than any other busy industrial city.. It had its slums, its modest bungalows with Exciting” . Mystery Novelet , their white fences, and its imposing houses located in the Locust Hill] Dis- trict, Nobody paid much attention to Marine Corpora: McKay. A few people glanced at his ribbons, but very few knew what they meant. Men of the armed services were no novelty to this town, Dick McKay had a mission to perform. It was his sole reason for coming here. There were two people in the town he had - ~~ ee comicbooks. col