Gang Pulp

Gangster Stories, August 1930

Our four gang story magazines: Gangster Stories, Racketeer Stories, Mobs, and Gangland Stories — all with the world-famous Blue Band on the covers — both entertain and teach us to watch out for the dangerous glitter of the underworld.

In the pages of these periodicals, stark Tragedy lifts her arms up through the night; Terror and Death, her close attendants. The staccato whine of the machine gun bullet is like the drone of insects in a great jungle. The screech of the police whistle breaks through that droning darkness. The cries of the lost fill our ears with a music more like madness than anything else.

But, from these thrilling paragraphs, bristling with gun action, comes moving truths. We learn as we are being entertained. We see how the gangster inevitably comes to ruin, though his brief career is one of false glamor and excitement.

Read the moral if you will.

Faithfully yours,

Harold Hersey