#Golden Age Detection

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Crooks of the Waldorf by Horace Smith. London: John Long, 1930. Dust jacket illustrator unknown. The book recounts "the escapades of Joe Smith (no relation to the author), the house detective at the original Waldorf Astoria on 34th Street and Fifth Avenue (now the site of the Empire State Building.)"

Below is an excerpt from the book. It can be read online here, but can't be downloaded as anything other than a JPG.

Top photo: Stuff Nobody Cares About Bottom screenshot: University of Michigan

[mysteryofmurder]

But for all that, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders contains what has to be one of the most baffling and brilliantly-conceived serial killings in all of mystery-writing fiction (if you think you can name me one better, I dare you to try...), and one of the most deviously-hidden culprits of all time.

Check out the rest of my review on The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Sōji Shimada below!

[oakendesk]

Line-Up Detective Apr 1953

Howell Dodd

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Golden Age Superman Trolling Compilation :)

This is kinda the type of humor I hope from the movie:

It doesn't matter if it's actually funny, so much as Clark thinks he's funny.

Sources: Uhhh. Superman & Action Comics, 1948 era? There's so many...

[chernobog13]

Stardust had more wacky crime fighting devices than the entire 1966 Batman television series.

[magnetothemagnificent]

The gender envy I get from Golden Age boy sidekicks......

[tiabwwtws-art]

Iterator logs quotes I think are delivered well + a low effort meme

[evilhorse]

And Robin…I see your fist hasn’t lost its old punch, my boy!

(Detective Comics #64)

[pulpsandcomics2]

Detective Comics #31 September 1939

[flashfuture]

(Detective Comics #41)

The year is 1940. Batman has sent his pupil Dick Grayson to a Boy's Boarding school to investigate disappearances. They communicate using a portable phone inside of Robin's belt

[kekwcomics]

Batman #92 (DC, 1955)

Art: Win Mortimer

First bat-Hound.

[artphotographyofmen]

Green Lantern by Craig Hamilton

[mysteryofmurder]

It is, in my opinion, the greatest effort by one of the greatest practitioners of the Golden Age mystery, who should be better known than she is. Book-for-book, Brand would make Agatha Christie sweat if the two decided to compete. 

Check out the rest of my review of the inimitable masterpiece, Death of Jezebel by Christianna Brand, below.

[oakendesk]

Guilty Detective Story Magazine Sep 1958

Wil Hulsey

[batbabydaily]

detective comics #71: a crime a day

[zedreh]

From Detective Comics #32, Batman, at one point, was sitting outside a door standing gaurd

Is it me, or does he look really upset or something? Like he's been punished and sent to his room.