We have a bit of Dutch pulp today, Das Schwarze Phantom by Francis Hobart, published in 1959 by Constantin-Verlag, with uncredited art of a crazy-eyed femme fatale pulling from her purse the last thing any person who’s cognitively all there wants to see. Let’s see if we’re all there: Person, woman, man, camera, TV. Yup—we’re golden! This cover was a Flickr find, which we lightly cleaned. Thanks to the original uploader.
1929—Seven Men Shot Dead in Chicago
Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s South Side gang, are machine gunned to death in Chicago, Illinois, in an event that would become known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Because two of the shooters were dressed as police officers, it was initially thought that police might have been responsible, but an investigation soon proved the killings were gang related. The slaughter exceeded anything yet seen in the United States at that time.