by Al Tonik
[Editor's note: pulp enthusiast and researcher Al Tonik generously agreed to share his listing of Emile C. Tepperman's work, which he originally published in PEAPS (the Pulp-Era Amateur Press Society). This listing nicely complements Victor Berch's essay on his attempts to track down the elusive fictioneer. Many thanks to Al for his willingness to share information on Tepperman!]
Not much is known about Emile C. Tepperman. At PULPCON we would ask the guests of honor if they knew Tepperman. They all said they knew him but could offer no other news.
In the letters column of the August 1939 issue of Writer's Digest, there is a letter from Emile C. Tepperman of Crompond, N.Y. He was complaining about a criticism of one of his stories, "Hot Snow," published in the March 1934 issue of Ten Detective Aces. He admits this was one of his first stories and has lots of flaws in it. He goes on to say that many pulp writers "are ever striving to write to the best of their ability, and that they do not compromise by taking the easiest way out."
Pulp publisher Henry Steeger, in a letter in pulp fanzine XENOPHILE #36, November 1977, wrote that Al Norton reminded him that Tepperman was small, had a dark complexion with dark hair, was probably of French or Latin origin and came to the office many times.
Nick Carr wrote an article on Emile Tepperman in the October 1979 issue of The Unicorn. Paul Bonner, Jr. looked in old Street & Smith files, and between 1939 and 1942, Tepperman's address was in the Queens section of New York City.
In Robert Turner's book, SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE WRITERS, BUT I WOULDN'T WANT MY DAUGHTER TO MARRY ONE published by Sherbourne in 1970, he said he was hired by Ace in 1940 to be an editor in their ACE Comics group. Harry Widmer and his staff would go to lunch, accompanied by some of his writers. "Sometimes Emile C. Tepperman, a top detective pulp writer of that time who later became a staff writer for radio's Gang Busters, would join us."
Arthur L. Burks had helped to form the American Fiction Guild to protect writer's rights. They used to meet every Friday for lunch. Steve Fisher said in Writer's Year Book 1941, he attended one of these gatherings, and Emile C. Tepperman was there.
Tepperman was one of three listed authors on the radio program Counterspy, a half-hour espionage adventure drama, from May 18, 1942 to November 29, 1957, created by Phillips H. Lord. This came from THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OLD-TIME RADIO by John Dunning, published by Oxford University Press in 1998. Also, he was supposed to be one of the writers on the radio program Gang Busters, a half-hour show broadcast from July 29, 1935 to November 27, 1957, also created by Phillips H. Lord. Still another show, Inner Sanctum Mysteries, was on the air from January 7,1941 to October 5, 1952.
Then there is the article by Victor Berch in ECHOES for February 1985 called "The Tepperman Quest - Phase 2." He found Tepperman's address in 1943 was 4708 39th Avenue, Sunnyside, Long Island City, Queens. Then Victor saw a notice in 1966 for the copyright renewal of Tepperman's "The Man Who Couldn't Lose" from the September 1939 issue of Detective Tales Magazine. Unfortunately the copyright was for M-G-M, not Tepperman. Then Victor noted in the Catalog of Copyright Entries for 1946-7 a list of 19 scripts for the radio program Inner Sanctum, and he was still living at the same address in Long Island City. Victor contacted Himan Brown, the producer of Inner Sanctum. Brown replied, "Tepperman died in the late forties - I found him to be a skillful and inventive writer - He contributed to the success of my series - He was married - I spoke to his wife often - I seriously doubt if he did any writing for Phillips Lord - I knew Lord and doubt if Emile was the kind of writer he cottoned to - Emile was a quiet man, most reliable." Then Victor inquired of the Election Board. Emile and his wife, Gladys, lived in the house in Long Island City from 1937 to 1949 as tenants. At that time he was 50 years old and had lived in New York State for 50 years. The Teppermans had been evicted.
I just discovered an entry in the Locus Index to Science Fiction. It has the life span for Emile C. Tepperman as 1899 to 1951.
THE PULP WRITINGS OF EMILE TEPPERMAN
From (1) THE PULP MAGAZINE INDEX by Leonard A. Robbins published by Starmont House in 1989, (2) THE 2nd PULP MAGAZINE INDEX published in 1989, (3) THE 3rd PULP MAGAZINE INDEX published in 1990, (4) THE 4th PULP MAGAZINE INDEX published in 1991, (5) MYSTERY, DETECTIVE, AND ESPIONAGE FICTION by Michael L. Cook & Stephen T. Miller published in 1988 by Garland, (6) SPIDER by Robert Sampson published by Bowling Green State University, (7) THE SUPER FEDS by Don Hutchison published by Starmont House in 1988, (8) SECRET AGENT X by Tom Johnson & Will Murray published by Robert Weinberg in 1980 as Pulp Classics #22, (9) AMERICA'S SECRET SEVICE ACE; OPERATOR #5 by Wooda Nick Carr published by Robert Weinberg as PULP CLASSIC #7 in 1974, (10) THE AVENGER in short story form published in S & S CLUES supposedly by Kenneth Robeson but actually by Emile Tepperman reprinted in the fanzine PULP by Robert Weinberg from 1976 to 1980, (11) THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE from a letter by Tom Johnson in 1994. In addition he seems to have written stories under 2 pseudonyms, Jordan Cole and Anthony Clemens suggested by Will Murray in Pulp Classics #22 in 1980. Tepperman wrote so many stories under the Anthony Clemens name, it seemed to me that Clemens was someone else. Yet when I checked, practically all of the Clemens stories were in the same magazine as a story by Tepperman.
Characters in a series of stories are abbreviated. (S) for The Spider writtten by Grant Stockbridge. (ER) for Ed Race in a series of stories in THE SPIDER magazine. (SS) for Suicide Squad in a series of stories in ACE G-MAN compiled by Phillip H. Nelson. (X) for SECRET AGENT X written by Brant House. (#5) for OPERATOR #5 written by Curtis Steele. (MQ) for Marty Quade in a series of stories in TEN DETECTIVE ACES. (A V) for THE AVENGER short stories written by Kenneth Robeson. (PD) for THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE written by Robert Wallace. (AC) for the stories written under the Anthony Clemens pseudonym. (JC) for the stories written under the Jordan Cole pseudonyms.
1 Nov 33 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- That Second Slug
1 Jan 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Doom's Doorway
1 Mar 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Satan's Scalpel
5 Mar 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Hot Snow
1 Apr 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- The Eyes of Durga
1 Apr 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Paid In Blood (AC)
1 Apr 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Scalpel Scourge
1 May 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- The Corpse Current
1 Jun 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- No Living Winess
1 Jun 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Guns At the Baltic (MQ)
1 Jun 34 -- THE SPIDER -- Painted Fangs
1 Jul 34 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Murder While You Wait
1 Jul 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Coffin Cache (MQ)
8 Aug 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Hand of Horror (X)
1 Aug 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Tong Torture
1 Aug 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Shackled Souls
1 Sep 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Considine Laughs
1 Sep 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Ink's Jinx (AC)
1 Sep 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Rendezvous With Murder (MQ)
1 Sep 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Death On The Dock (AC)
1 Sep 34 -- THE SPIDER -- Amateur Night - for Killers (ER)
1 Oct 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Five Minutes to Death
1 Oct 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Death Dance (MQ)
1 Oct 34 -- THE SPIDER -- Cue For A Corpse (ER)
8 Nov 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Servants of the Skull (X)
1 Nov 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Call From Hell
1 Nov 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- It's a Cinch (JC)
1 Nov 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Disciple of Doom (MQ)
1 Nov 34 -- THE SPIDER -- The Death Juggler (ER)
8 Dec 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- The Murder Monster (X)
1 Dec 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Museum Sinister
1 Dec 34 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Silenced Partner (JC)
1 Dec 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Warden of Death (MQ)
1 Dec 34 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- The Red 21 (AC)
1 Jan 35 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Tavern of Dread
1 Jan 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Devil's Commission (MQ)
1 Jan 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Ticket to Hell (ER)
1 Feb 35 -- SECRET AGENT X -- The Terror's Trademark
1 Feb 35 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Blood On the Ice (AC)
1 Feb 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Married For Murder (MQ)
1 Feb 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Phantom Finger (AC)
1 Feb 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Death's Spotlight (ER)
3 Feb 35 -- THRILLING DETECTIVE -- The Belgrave Pearls
1 Mar 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Slow Murder (MQ)
1 Mar 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Billed For Death (ER)
1 Mar 35 -- THE SPIDER -- With Police Approval (AC)
8 Apr 35 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Talons of Terror (X)
1 Apr 35 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Taking No Chances
1 Apr 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Corpse's Cocktail (AC)
1 Apr 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Death's Booking Agent (ER)
1 May 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Dead Freight (MQ)
1 May 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Dice Of Doom (AC)
6 May 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Death Takes an Encore (ER)
1 Jun 35 -- OPERATOR #5 -- The Gong of War
1 Jun 35 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Tomb of Torment
1 Jun 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Lottery Loot (MQ)
1 Jun 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder in the Spotlight (ER)
1 Jul 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Juggler's Holiday (ER)
1 Aug 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Witness to Murder (MQ)
1 Aug 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Death's Curtain-Call (ER)
1 Sep 35 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Ambassador to Hell
1 Sep 35 -- SECRET AGENT X -- Paid In Slugs
1 Sep 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Suicide Service (MQ)
1 Oct 35 -- POPULAR DETECTIVE -- Blind Man's Bluff
1 Oct 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Cue For a Gunman (ER)
1 Nov 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder Backstage (ER)
1 Dec 35 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- Crucible of Courage
9 Dec 35 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Raiders of the Red Death (#5)
1 Dec 35 -- PHANTOM DETECTIVE -- Marked For Salvage
1 Dec 35 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Killer's Combine (MQ)
1 Dec 35 -- THE SPIDER -- Death's Understudy (ER)
9 Jan 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- War Dogs of the Green Destroyer (#5)
1 Jan 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Orders to Hell
1 Jan 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Action Off Stage (ER)
1 Feb 36 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- Death to the Winner
9 Feb 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Rockets From Hell (#5)
1 Feb 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Prologue to Death (ER)
9 Mar 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- War Masters From the Orient (#5)
1 Mar 36 -- POPULAR DETECTIVE -- The People Rest
1 Mar 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Overture to Doom (ER)
9 Apr 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Crime's Reign of Terror (#5)
1 Apr 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Hi-Jackers From Hell
1 Apr 36 -- SECRET AGENT X -- The Terror Tree
1 Apr 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Death Between the Acts (ER)
1 May 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Bad Actors Die Young (ER)
1 Jun 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder on the Progamme (ER)
9 J- J 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Death's Ragged Army (#5)
1 Jul 36 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Murder Wheels (MQ)
1 Jul 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Death Steals the Act (ER)
1 J- A 36 -- ACE G-MAN -- Death's Counterman
1 Aug 36 -- ACE DETECTIVE -- Counterfeit Copper
1 Aug 36 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Killer's Club Car (MQ)
1 Aug 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Death Goes On the Road (ER)
9 A-S 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Patriot's Death Battalion (#5)
1 Sep 36 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Bullet-Battle Treasure (MQ)
1 S-O 36 -- ACE G-MAN -- Revolt of a G-Man
1 Oct 36 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- The Benevolent Order of Death
1 Oct 36 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Hooded Destiny
1 Oct 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Death At the Matinee (ER)
9 O-N 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- The Bloody Forty-Five Days (#5)
1 O-N 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- When One Spy Dies
6 Nov 36 -- THE SPIDER -- City of Dreadful Night (S)
9 Dec 36 -- OPERATOR #5 -- America's Plague Battalions (#5)
6 Dec 36 -- THE SPIDER -- Reign of the Snake Men (S)
9 Jan 37 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Liberty's Suicide Legions (#5)
6 Jan 37 -- THE SPIDER -- Dictator of the Damned (S)
9 Feb 37 -- OPERATOR #5 -- The Seige of the 1,000 Patriots (#5)
6 Feb 37 -- THE SPIDER -- The Milltown Massacres (S)
6 Mar 37 -- THE SPIDER -- Satan's Workshop (S)
9 M-A 37 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Patriot's Death March (#5)
6 Apr 37 6 -- THE SPIDER -- Scourge of the Yellow Fangs (S)
May 37 -- THE SPIDER -- The Devil's Pawnbroker (S)
May 37 -- FIVE NOVELS -- So Murder Talks Poltics
9 M-J 37 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Revolt of the Lost Legions (#5)
6 Jun 37 -- THE SPIDER -- Voyage of the Coffin Shop (S)
9 J-A 37 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Drums of Destruction (#5)
5 Aug 37 -- BLACK MASK -- Stormy Nocturne
11 Sep 37 -- PHANTOM DETECTIVE -- Hammers of Doom (PD)
1 Sep 37 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder Misses Its Cue (ER)
9 S-O 37 -- OPERATOR #5 -- The Army Without a Country (#5)
1 N-D 37 -- ACE G-MAN -- Special Agent For the Dead
9 N-D 37 -- OPERATOR #5 -- The Bloody Frontiers (#5)
1 Dec 37 -- THE SPIDER -- Dead Man's Bullets (ER)
9 J-F 38 -- OPERATOR #5 -- The Coming of the Mongol Hordes (#5)
1 Feb 38 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- They Posed For Death
1 Mar 38 -- THE SPIDER -- Corpse Without a Coffin (ER)
9 M-A 38 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Siege That Brought the Black Death (#5)
1 Apr 38 -- SECRET AGENT X -- The Suicide Coterie
1 Apr 38 -- THE SPIDER -- The Corpse Takes a Curtain Call (ER)
1 May 38 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder Matinee (ER)
1 M-J 38 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Revolt Of The Devil Men (#5)
1 Jun 38 -- THE SPIDER -- Death Books The Show (ER)
1 Jul 38 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Counsel For the Offense (MQ)
1 Jul 38 -- THE SPIDER -- Top Billing For Murder (ER)
1 S-O 38 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Black Wings Over America
1 Dec 38 -- DETECTIVE NOVELS -- Death in the Dark
11 Feb 39 -- PHANTOM DETECTIVE -- Web of Murder (PD)
4 Mar 39 -- DIME MYSTERY -- The Invisible Killer
1 Mar 39 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Crime Custodian (MQ)
1 M-A 39 -- ACE G-MAN -- No Feuds For Feds
1 M-A 39 -- ACE G-MAN -- No Other Partner (AC)
5 Apr 39 -- BLACK MASK -- Death - To the Highest Bidder
5 May 39 -- BLACK MASK -- Death For Sale
4 May 39 -- DIME MYSTERY -- Maker of the Faceless Ones
1 May 39 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Suicide - So What (MQ)
1 May 39 -- THE SPIDER -- Curtain Call For the Corpse (ER)
1 M-J 39 -- ACE G-MAN -- Mr. Zero & the Suicide Squad (SS)
1 M-J 39 -- ACE G-MAN -- Death's Prize Package (AC)
2 M-J 39 -- TERROR TALES -- Mad Surgeon of the Everglades
4 Jun 39 -- DIME MYSTERY -- Satan Comes At Midnight
1 J-A 39 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Suicide Squad Reports For Death (SS)
1 Aug 39 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- You've Got to Split With Death
4 Aug 39 -- DIME MYSTERY -- When the Death Light Shines
1 Aug 39 -- THE SPIDER -- A Cue For the Corpse (ER)
3 Aug 39 -- VARIETY DETECTIVE -- Gamble With Bullets (AC)
1 Sep 39 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- The Man Who Couldn't Lose
1 S-O 39 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Suicide Squad's Last Mile (SS)
1 S-O 39 -- ACE G-MAN -- Special Agent For the Dead (AC)
1 S-O 39 -- STRANGE DETECTIVE -- The Strip Tease Murders
1 Oct 39 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- The Thing in the Closet
1 Oct 39 -- S & S CLUES -- The Manchu Skull
1 Oct 39 -- THE SPIDER -- Headliner From Hell (ER)
5 Nov 39 -- 10-STORY DETECTIVE -- Death's Double-Cross
1 N-D 39 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Suicide Squad Pays Off (SS)
1 N-D 39 -- OPERATOR #5 -- Mistress of Dead Spies
1 N-D 39 -- STRANGE DETECTIVE -- Death Sends His Maniacs
1 Dec 39 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- Ladies Must Live
1 Dec 39 -- S & S CLUES -- Hang Me Today
1 Dec 39 -- S & S MYSTERY -- The Queen of Death
3 Dec 39 -- VARIETY DETECTIVE -- Morgue's Prep School
6 J an 40 -- THE SPIDER -- The Spider & the Pain Master (S)
1 J-F 40 -- ACE G-MAN -- Coffins For the Suicide Squad (SS)
1 Apr 40 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Suicide Squad - Dead Or Alive (SS)
6 Apr 40 -- THE SPIDER -- The Man From Hell (S)
1 May 40 -- THE SPIDER -- The Devil's Contortionists
1 Jun 40 -- ACE G-MAN -- Shells For the Suicide Squad (SS)
1 Jun 40 -- ACE G-MAN -- Pick Your Way to Die (AC)
1 Jun 40 -- THE SPIDER -- Death's Booking Agent (ER)
6 Jun 40 -- THE SPIDER -- Dictator's Death Merchants (S)
1 Jul 40 -- THE SPIDER -- Bank-Night For Corpses (ER)
1 Aug 40 -- ACE G-MAN -- Suicide Squad's Murder Lottery (SS)
1 Aug 40 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder's One-Man Show (ER)
1 Sep 40 -- DETECTIVE TALES -- The Kid & the Killer
1 Sep 40 -- STRANGE DETECTIVE -- Charity Begins With Murder
1 Sep 40 -- S & S MYSTERY -- Dead Man's Head
6 Sep 40 -- THE SPIDER -- Master of the Night Demons (S)
1 Sep 40 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder Sets the Stage (ER)
1 Nov 40 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Suicide Squad & the Murder Bund (SS)
1 Nov 40 -- STRANGE DETECTIVE -- Chain of Severed Hands
1 Dec 40 -- THE SPIDER -- Encore With Death (ER)
1 Jan 41 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Suicide Squad in Corpse-Town (SS)
1 Feb 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Parade of the Wooden Kimonos (MQ)
1 Feb 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Suicide Express (AC)
1 Mar 41 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Coffin Barricade (SS)
4 Mar 41 -- DIME MYSTERY -- Dr. Dexter's Magic Sword
1 Mar 41 -- STRANGE DETECTIVE -- The Case of the Talking Dead
1 Mar 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Five-Star Frameup (MQ)
1 Mar 41 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder - Now Showing (ER)
1 Apr 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Dead Man's Alimony (MQ)
1 Apr 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Hell-Ship Heritage (AC)
1 May 41 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Tunnel Death Built (SS)
1 May 41 -- G-MEN -- Some Day I'll Kill You
1 May 41 -- STRANGE DETECTIVE -- Death Can Be Beautiful
1 May 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- A Half Interest in Hell (MQ)
1 May 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Mechanized Murder (AC)
5 Jun 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- The Man Death Forgot
5 Jun 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Detective T.N.T. (AC)
1 Jun 41 -- THE SPIDER -- Masked Marksman's Murder Encore (ER)
1 Jul 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Murder in Ten Easy Lessons (MQ)
1 Jul 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- A Mickey Finn on the House (AC)
1 Jul 41 -- THE SPIDER -- Miami Murder Intermission (ER)
1 Sep 41 -- ACE G-MAN -- Wanted - In Three Pine Coffins (SS)
1 Sep 41 -- ACE G-MAN -- Border Graves For G-Men (AC)
1 Sep 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Juggled Murder
1 Sep 41 -- THE SPIDER -- Murder's Benefit Performance (ER)
1 Oct 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Never to Wake Again
1 Nov 41 -- THE SPIDER -- Understudy For Murder (ER)
1 Dec 41 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Suicide Squad's Private War (SS)
1 Dec 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Hello Killer (MQ)
1 Dec 41 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- A Tip For McGurk (AC)
1 Jan 42 -- S & S CLUES -- F or This Thing I Fight
1 Jan 42 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Sleuth of the Air Waves
1 Jan 42 -- THE SPIDER -- Corpses On Display (ER)
1 Feb 42 -- ACE G-MAN -- For Tomorrow We Die (SS)
1 Feb 42 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Pin the Rap on Me (MQ)
1 Mar 42 -- STRANGE DETECTIVE -- The Talisman of Murder (ER)
1 Mar 42 -- THE SPIDER -- Marksman's Command Performance (ER)
1 Apr 42 -- ACE G-MAN -- The Suicide Squad's Dawn Patrol (SS)
1 May 42 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- The Corpse Takes a Powder (MQ)
1 May 42 -- THE SPIDER -- Encore For the Killer (ER)
1 Jun 42 -- ACE G-MAN -- Suicde Squad Meets the Rising Sun (SS)
1 Jun 42 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Claws of the Dancing Bear (AC)
1 Jul 42 -- THE SPIDER -- Private Performance - For Death (ER)
1 Aug 42 -- ACE G-MAN -- So Sorry, Mr. Hirohito (SS)
1 Aug 42 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Lady Mac Death (MQ)
1 Sep 42 -- S & S CLUES -- Key to Murder
10 Sep 42 -- S & S CLUES -- Death to the Avenger (A V)
1 Sep 42 -- THE SPIDER -- Curtain For the Masked Marksman (ER)
1 Oct 42 -- ACE G-MAN -- Move Over, Death (SS)
1 Oct 42 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- V For Victim (MQ)
3 Nov 42 -- NEW DETECTIVE -- Murder - By a Neck
10 Nov 42 -- S & S CLUES -- A Coffin For the Avenger (A V)
1 Nov 42 -- S & S CLUES -- Don't Bury Me At All
1 Nov 42 -- S & S MYSTERY -- Trail By Murder
1 Nov 42 -- THE SPIDER -- Song of the Gallows (ER)
1 Dec 42 -- ACE G-MAN -- Targets For the Flaming Arrow (SS)
I Jan 43 -- S & S CLUES -- Make Ready My Dungeon
10 Jan 43 -- S & S CLUES -- Vengeance on the Avenger (A V)
1 Jan 43 -- S & S MYSTERY -- A Body in His Pocket
1 Jan 43 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- Doubling For the Doomed (MQ)
1 Feb 43 -- ACE G-MAN -- Blood, Sweat & Bullets (SS)
1 Feb 43 -- THE SPIDER -- Reserved Seats - For Murder (ER)
10 Mar 43 -- S & S CLUES -- Calling Justice, Inc. (A V)
1 Mar 43 -- THE SPIDER -- Live Targets Shoot Back (ER)
1 Apr 43 -- ACE G-MAN -- Suicide Squad & the Twins of Death (SS)
1 Apr 43 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- In This Corner - Death
3 May 43 -- CRACK DETECTIVE -- AVery Peculiar People
10 May 43 -- S & S CLUES -- Cargo of Doom (A V)
1 May 43 -- THE SHADOW -- Killers All
1 Jun 43 -- THE SPIDER -- Death Takes a Bow (ER)
1 Aug 43 -- THE SPIDER -- Danger - Murder Ahead (ER)
1 Oct 43 -- TEN DETECTIVE ACES -- The Case of the Headless Client (MQ)
1 Oct 43 -- THE SPIDER -- Death's Dress Rehearsal (ER)
1 Aug 44 -- THE SHADOW -- To Find a Dead Man (A V)
Some summations about the list, above:
Stories per year
1933 -- 1
1934 -- 34
1935 -- 37
1936 -- 33
1937 -- 21
1938 -- 12
1939 -- 34
1940 -- 18
1941 -- 29
1942 -- 26
1943 -- 17
1944 -- 1
Stories in series
Ed Race -- 55 -- September 1934 - October 1943
Marty Quade -- 32 -- June 1934 - October 1943
Suicide Squad -- 22 -- May 1939 - April 1943
Operator #5 -- 19 -- December 1935 - June 1938
The Spider -- 12 -- November 1936 - September 1940
TheAvenger -- 6 -- September 1942 - August 1944
Secret Agent X -- 4 -- August 1934 - April 1935
Phantom Detective -- 2 -- September 1937 - February 1939
Stories under pen names
Anthony Clemens -- 22
Jordan Cole -- 2
Scripts from Inner Sanctum Mystery
Inner Sanctum Mystery Radio Scripts broadcast on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. From INNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES: Behind The Creaking Door by Martin Grams, Jr. published by OTR Publishing in 2002.
Feb 13 45 -- To The Ends Of The Earth
Feb 20 45 -- No Coffin For The Dead
Aug 28 45 -- Dead Man's Deal
Sep18 45 -- Terror By Night
Oct 16 45 -- Till Death Do Us Part
Nov 27 45 -- Death Can Be Beautiful?
Feb 5 46 -- Skeleton Bay
Feb 12 46 -- Elixir Number Four (original title, The Man Who Couldn't Die)
Feb 19 46 -- You'll Never Escape (rebroadcast of To The Ends Of The Earth 2/13/45)
Feb 26 46 -- I Walk In The Night
Apr 23 46 -- Make Ready My Grave
May 21 46 -- Detour To Terror
Jun 4 46 -- Eight Steps To Murder
Sep 9 46 -- Murder Always Comes At Midnight (rebroadcast on Armed Services as “Murder Comes At Midnight”)
Nov 11 46 -- Nightmare
Dec 2 46 -- The Dead Walk Alone
Dec 16 46 -- Whistle While I Die
Jan 13 47 -- Payable At Death
Feb 17 47 -- Moonlight Is For Murder
May 5 47 -- Don't Dance On My Grave
May 26 47 -- Never To Die Again
Sep 1 47 -- The Last Time I Killed Her
Jan 30 50 -- Skeleton Bay (rebroadcast from Feb 5 46)
Jun 29 52 -- Terror By Night (rebroadcast of Sep 18 45)
Sep 14 52 -- Till Death Do Us Part (rebroadcast from Oct 16 45)
Scripts from Suspense
Then from Suspense by Martin Grams, Jr. published by Morris Publishing in 1997. Scripts written by Emile C. Tepperman.
Episode 111 -- Sep 28 44 -- The Man Who Couldn’t Lose
Episode 130 -- Feb. 15 45 -- Sell Me Your Life
Episode 164 -- Oct. 25 45 -- A Shroud For Sara
Episode 342 -- Apr. 24 47 -- Win, Place And Murder (original story adapted by Joel Marcott)
Episode 275 -- Dec. 12 47 -- The Man Who Couldn't Lose
Compilation (c) Al Tonik
Links:
Victor Berch's article on tracking down Tepperman, "The Tepperman Quest," is available elsewhere on The Pulp Rack. Click here to read Part One, and click here to read Part Two.
Apparently there are no collected works of Emile Tepperman, but his work pops up all over the catalogs of the part of the small press dedicated to pulp fiction. See issues of John Gunnison's High Adventure reprint magazine at the Adventure House web site by clicking here.
Don Hutchison's collection of pulp stories, It's Raining More Corpses In Chinatown, includes a Tepperman story. Click here to learn more at Amazon.com.
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