# Verdict v01n02 \[1953-07\] {jvh-EXciter}

Following the successful launch of Manhunt , the publishers launched a similar magazine as Verdict but it never made a mark in a crowded market and folded after only 4 issues. The same publishers tried again three years later but, again, the magazine folded after a brief run. CONTENTS: Verdict \[v1 #2, July 1953\] (35¢, digest) Fer-de-Lance \[Part 2 of 4; Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin\] · Rex Stout · sl Viking 1934 Kudos For The Kid \[Peter Chambers\] · Henry Kane · ss Esquire May 1947 All At Once, No Alice · Cornell Woolrich · nv Argosy March 2, 1940 The Man Who Lost His Head · Bruno Fischer · nv Doc Savage July 1945 The Homecoming · Dorothy B. Hughes · ss (r) The Stripper \[Sister Mary Ursula, OMB\] · H. H. Holmes · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1945 Has Anyone Here Slain Kelly? · Francis Lewis · nv 10-Story Detective Magazine February 1949, as “Has Anybody Here Slain Kelly?” Revenge · Samuel Blas · ss Collier’s January 11, 1947 Suicide \[Johnny Liddell\] · Frank Kane · ss Crack Detective Stories January 1945

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: Verdict
- Year: 1953
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/VerdictV01n021953JulyjvhEXciter)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can read it: Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

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