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Issue: The Detectives #1
Publication Date: April 1993
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue (2 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagAlpha Productions
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Alpha Productions
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $5.95 CAD
$4.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 17 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Cardstock cover; smooth white interior
Binding: Squarebound
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover credits are given as "Adam Hughes & Myke Maldonado". It is unclear which of the two was the inker and it is presumed Maldonado was the colorist.
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[untitled]

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: In the spring of 1923, in the pages of the famed pulp magazine, Black Mask…
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Inside front cover.
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The Detectives

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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The Private Eye Tradition

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Synopsis: Gorman discusses the private eye from the earliest days of Nick Carter and Race Williams up to the current year this book is published, maintaining that some of the best detective fiction is being written at the current time.
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Mike Mauser: Private Eye

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Michael Mauser
Character(s): Mike Mauser
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The Old Farmhouse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Michael Mauser
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Pages: 10
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The Maze Agency: The Adventure of the Chinese Dissident

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Maze Agency
Character(s): Jennifer Mays; Gabriel Webb
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The Adventure of the Chinese Dissident

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Maze Agency
Character(s): Jennifer Mays; Gabriel Webb
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Pages: 10
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Mike Mist: Image of Death

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Character(s): Mike Mist
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Image of Death

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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 4
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Tony Bravado Trouble Shooter: Gambling with Hercules

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Tony Bravado
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Gambling with Hercules

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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Tony Bravado
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Pages: 10
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Johnny Dynamite: The Hundred Cadillacs

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The Hundred Cadillacs

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Genres: mystery
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Ace Mifflin
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Disclose Notes: Illustration of Ace Mifflin standing against a lamppost, from The Jazz Age Chronicles, 1993.
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Feature(s): Alpha Productions
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Disclose Notes: Publisher staff credits; illustration; indicia.
Inside back cover.
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The Detectives

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Promo for current issue, listing creators.
Back cover.

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