A facsimile reprint of the first issue of the famous hero pulp magazine The Phantom Detective, from February 1933. The lead novel is The Emperor of Death" by G. Wayman Jones, in which the Phantom Detective wages a lone-wolf campaign against a ruthless king of criminals, who plans a reign of wholesale death and destruction! This issue also includes "Framed," by Will Levinrew, "Death on Dow Street," by Jack D'Arcy, and "Rub-Out," by John H. Compton.