The Covers of Headline Detective

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Dazzling Erin

From 1939 to 1944, Headline Detective was published by MacFadden Publications. It was one of the many pulp magazine to focus on stories of true crime, thievery, murder, and femme fatales. Here’s a sampling of the cover of Headline Detective. Where known, the artist has been credited.

Artist Unknown

by A. L. Hicks

by Griffith Foxley

by Harwood Forsgen

by Peter Driben

Unknown Artist

The Salacious Covers of Inside Detective

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Dazzling Erin

by Albert Fisher

For over 60 years, Inside Detective Magazine provided the readers with the salacious details of true life crime. Every story was advertised as being true and many were said to come straight from police files. From the 1930s until it ceased publication in the 90s, Inside Detective was one of the most popular true detective magazines. The publishers understood that nothing sells like sex and violence and the covers of Inside Detective promised both. Below, we have a few of them: