#mystery magazine

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Amphion - art by Fred T. Everett (1926)

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Hutchinson's Mystery - Story Magazine, October 1923

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Bizarre! (Mystery Magazine), Vol. 1 n. 2, Pamar Enterprises, November 1965

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The Rockets' Red Glare

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Mystery Magazine May 2023

Guess what!?!?!?!

Mystery Magazine released their May 2023 issue and my story, “Family Ties” is included! It is the latest installment of my Lady Sheriff Series. If you’re interested in buying a copy for your Kindle or a paperback copy, go here.

If you’d like a little sneak peek at my story, go here.

I plan to do a Fun Facts post for this story later this week.

Until next time!

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Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1965 (less cropped version previously used for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1959)

Ed Moritz

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Illustration from Famous Fantastic Mysteries by Virgil Finlay (June 1953)

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i don't know, there is something sweet to me about the idea of you and bakugou meeting when you're both at the end of your dating rope 🥺 he's been trying to find someone and make it work for a while, and you've been on date after date after date and it's just !! not working out !! for either of you !!

and it's really a last ditch effort on both your parts, your first meeting; in a moment of utter exasperation, bakugou doesn't immediately delete the dating app kirishima installs on his phone, and you don't believe pro-hero dynamight would be on such a thing and you figure the worst you'll get out of entertaining it is a good laugh !

but it's really him and it's really you, but you're both so worn out at this point that you're just expecting it to go nowhere. to not develop past the night and the awkward dinner at the overpriced restaurant he made reservations at and actually—

"can i be honest with you?" you speak up right outside the door, glancing between the man holding it open and bakugou. the real, true bakugou.

his eyebrows furrow, and then he simply shrugs.

"i — honestly don't want to eat here," you admit, sending an apologetic smile to the employee still standing there. reservations have been made, you know that, and maybe bakugou is going to get angry at you for this, but you don't think you can swallow down another hour of small, meaningless talk. "i'd rather get, i don't know, ice cream, maybe."

if he tosses you aside now, it'll be for the better, you think. just get it over with, so you can stop wasting each other's time.

— but he only sighs, runs a hand through his hair that messes it up a little. and then bakugou grunts, "fine by me," and heads off down the sidewalk without hesitation.

and it must be the weariness that you both carry, that waters down your nerves into something more manageable; you tell him openly that you're not going to sleep with him, and he openly tells you that he doesn't want that either. you tell him about your ex-partner and the last three dates you went on — all things you've been told by friends not to bring up — and he tells you that he probably won't be around anytime soon, with work and all.

you share ice cream because he doesn't have much of a sweet tooth, but he pays for it and doesn't complain about the flavor. he doesn't ask you about your job or what you like to do for fun, but you walk half-way across town while talking about silly things, random things, things you shouldn't tell a stranger and yet find no reason not to.

after so long in a shitty dating pool, you're just expecting this to go wrong, to end on a weird, dull note — and so neither of you really know how to say goodbye, when it's way too late and your hand has found its way into his and you realize that you maybe don't want to let go, just yet.

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Vintage Pulp - Mystery Adventure Magazine (Nov1936)

Fiction Magazines

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Hutchinson's Mystery-Story Magazine, Sep. 1923

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And here's the whole gang together! Doing these 1940s Mystery Inc. covers has probably been the most fun I've had working on a lookbook and now I'm itching to do more famous character magazines. If you'd like to see each individual cover (including all the CC links), you can find them below.

Fred ✺ Velma ✺ Daphne ✺ Shaggy

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Recently Alessio Coppola (best known for being the cover artist of Paperino) has shared on instagram some studies and behind the scenes of some 90s projects. Let's see what he has unveiled.

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These are concepts for the logo of Jungle Town, the one-shot that was eventually published in 2006, but this scrapped ideas are dated 2001. The story by Faraci and Cavazzano was supposed to be a series, but only the pilot survived. Rumors say that it was a way to redirect the resources from the deceased MMMM project.

Next we have some concepts starring Angus Fangus, for Pkna, dated 1997.

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Originally Angus Fangus was supposed to drive an italian car.

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Than some concepts from MMMM. They confirm an old rumor: Sonny Mitchell was originally supposed to be Detective Casey's brother (il fratello di Manetta). He was modeled after Walter Matthau.

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And finally the biggest surprise of all: in 1997 there were ideas floating around about making Pk interact with human characters.

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Salesman for Death - art by Rafael DeSoto (1933)