Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective

Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
Cover of High Adventure #60 (September 2001), featuring Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
Publication information
Publisher	Culture Publications
First appearance	Spicy Detective #2

Dan Turner, also known as the Hollywood Detective, was a fictional private detective created by Robert Leslie Bellem. His first appearance was in the second issue of the pulp magazine Spicy Detective, dated June 1934, and he continued to appear regularly in that magazine (which was retitled Speed Detective in 1943) until its demise in February 1947. He also appeared in his "own" magazine, Hollywood Detective, which was published by Culture Publications (later Trojan Publishing) and ran from January 1942 to October 1950.^[1]