Robert Leslie Bellem
Published: 2018-09-22
Total Pages: 78
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- This book contains 7 graphic stories, each 10 page long, published in the pulp magazine "Dan Turner Hollywood Detective" between 1943 and 1949. Robert Leslie Bellem was a prolific American writer who wrote in a variety of genres and for many pulp magazines, especially those of Culture Publications that included mastheads such as "Spicy Detective," "Spicy Adventure," "Spicy Western," and "Spicy Mystery." His most famous creation was the hardboiled detective Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, who narrates the stories in the first person in a racy, slangy style that made them very popular. The majority of Dan Turner's stories appeared in a dedicated pulp magazine called "Dan Turner Hollywood Detective," later renamed simply "Hollywood Detective" to accommodate more than just the Dan Turner stories. Almost every issue of "Hollywood Detective" featured a "Dan Turner in Pictures" comic book story by Robert Leslie Bellem with drawings by Adolphe Barreaux. KA-CHOW! includes seven such stories from the 40s: "The Murdered Mummy" (January 1943), "Zoot Suit Killers" (March 1943), "The Case of the Poisoned Puppet" (May 1943), "Killer's Chord" (June 1944), "Sinister Santa Claus" (October 1944), "The Devil's Ballet" (August 1945), and "Strangler's Ballet" (February 1949).