tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post201301505334925791..comments2024-03-13T23:32:15.932-07:00Comments on Pulp Flakes: Karl Detzer – Journalist, Soldier, Editor, WriterSai Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-14356799855627467512023-07-22T22:39:01.644-07:002023-07-22T22:39:01.644-07:00Thanks for the tip. I just read it. The setting an...Thanks for the tip. I just read it. The setting and description of harsh weather on the Great Lakes are good.Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-77381724082347521162023-07-16T10:49:47.591-07:002023-07-16T10:49:47.591-07:00Oops - omitted: "The Pantry Watch" appea...Oops - omitted: "The Pantry Watch" appeared in the July 10, 1923 issue of Adventure Magazine -- almost exactly 100 years ago to the week. <br />czechpointcharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07228813762959956570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-67953690959611149372023-07-16T10:48:26.570-07:002023-07-16T10:48:26.570-07:00I just finished reading his first story for Advent...I just finished reading his first story for Adventure Magazine, "The Pantry Watch", a rite of passage story set on a commercial freight schooner on Lake Michigan. It's wonderfully written, and I can recommend it -- or you might consider reprinting it yourself. czechpointcharliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07228813762959956570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-69744204092469210332021-11-20T06:02:27.522-08:002021-11-20T06:02:27.522-08:00Detzer had prior service in the US Army, so he did...Detzer had prior service in the US Army, so he didn't reenlist, he applied to have his commission as an officer reactivated. This happened in thousands of cases just after Pearl Harbor and the influx of experienced soldiers with prior service helped the military greatly as America geared up for WWII.Curt Phillipsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-78019065341138020022021-02-25T19:20:53.951-08:002021-02-25T19:20:53.951-08:00Looking for publications newly in the USA public d...Looking for publications newly in the USA public domain as of 1/1/2021 I came across his "True Tales of the DCI". It is good reading and depicts aspects of US history which were suppressed at the time or not well recalled later probably because the idea that doughboy deserters were a plague upon the French population.Wayne Stevenson Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13460858285958761937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-46443493681724193812019-04-17T09:51:39.840-07:002019-04-17T09:51:39.840-07:00The FictionMags Index comes to your rescue on this...The <a href="http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/0start.htm" rel="nofollow">FictionMags Index</a> comes to your rescue on this one. Look for Stories by Author, find the link to Karl Detzer's page, click on the (chron.) link by his name to order stories by date of publication. Once you do so, you should be able to find the issues of the <em>Saturday Evening Post</em> with Detzer stories in them from 1933-34. Looks like he didn't have anything earlier in that magazine, so it should be relatively simple to click through those issues.Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-8982151419259310022019-04-14T15:00:38.689-07:002019-04-14T15:00:38.689-07:00Thanks Sai. Unfortunately, the Saturday Evening P...Thanks Sai. Unfortunately, the Saturday Evening Post archives is searchable by issue but not by the author of published stories, so, as nearly as nearly as I can tell, I would have to look through the index page of every issue between 1921 and 1934 to find their Karl Detzer atories. I've contacted Saturday Evening Post about this conundrum, but so far without response. Do you happen to know what year these stories were published, or, better yet, which issues? . jjjjjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18232038027944359748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-2229777714416428962019-03-30T07:41:07.580-07:002019-03-30T07:41:07.580-07:00I think you missed this in my post: "Seven of...I think you missed this in my post: "Seven of his stories based on these experiences were bought by Harold Lorimer, editor of the <em>Saturday Evening Post</em>, and turned into a movie, Car 99Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-21460386281152383392019-03-29T09:30:53.502-07:002019-03-29T09:30:53.502-07:00I recently watched Car 99 to see how it compared ...I recently watched Car 99 to see how it compared with "Michigan's Greatest Manhunt", a Detzer story which was published in Detective Fiction Weekly in 1934. My Dad comes from Kaleva Michigan, and the Detective Fiction Weekly story is based on the bank robbery in Kaleva in 1933. That much I know is true, because Detzer provides a lot of information about a bank robbery in Kaleva which is similar to the story my father told me. My question is whether Car 99 was somehow loosely based on Detzer's Kaleva bank robbery story as well. My father said it was, but, now that I've seen the movie, I say that, even though there's several connections, it probably wasn't, especially if he wrote a lot of similar stories. Or maybe the movie is a conglomeration of several Detzer stories. What do you say?jjjjjimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18232038027944359748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-26044548647007035672018-01-17T12:33:59.022-08:002018-01-17T12:33:59.022-08:00I don't believe so, unless she changed her nam...I don't believe so, unless she changed her name. <br /><br />See <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4161684/wedding_of_mary_jane_detzer/" rel="nofollow">this article</a>, which gives the daughter's name as Mary Jane.<br />Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-11752825489148423172018-01-15T20:25:18.728-08:002018-01-15T20:25:18.728-08:00I have yet to receive any information concerning D...I have yet to receive any information concerning Dionne Detzer Lukens. Was/Is she the daughter of Karl, as she claimed. She lived in a second-floor apartment over a store in downtown Port Allegany, Pa., in the mid-1950s. Drymarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13110183657288008338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-53858650095298872882018-01-15T12:58:57.351-08:002018-01-15T12:58:57.351-08:00Would you mind posting photos/scans if you can?Would you mind posting photos/scans if you can?Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-6658043912394304142017-12-04T17:13:59.673-08:002017-12-04T17:13:59.673-08:00I found his 1942 American Legion membership card a...I found his 1942 American Legion membership card and his 1943 chiefs of police card in a box of junk I bought at a flea market in New Jersey this weekend. Did a search for him and it brought me to this blogBernard Sherinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16117522798833607616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-56904885052035882272016-10-19T14:28:49.504-07:002016-10-19T14:28:49.504-07:00I knew someone in the 1950s who claimed to be Karl...I knew someone in the 1950s who claimed to be Karl Detzer's daughter-- Dionne? She was married to but estranged from an architect named Lukens, whose name she used.Drymarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13110183657288008338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-26484361498640241862016-06-22T16:18:37.654-07:002016-06-22T16:18:37.654-07:00i might also be able to help... have his letters t...i might also be able to help... have his letters to home from the service...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16540619377448545042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-56677119910991848552016-05-25T10:21:28.647-07:002016-05-25T10:21:28.647-07:00I believe so. IF you leave your contact details, I...I believe so. IF you leave your contact details, I may be able to send you some information.Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-66527937016916579562016-05-05T20:46:00.594-07:002016-05-05T20:46:00.594-07:00Thanks for this great bio. Does anyone know Karl&#...Thanks for this great bio. Does anyone know Karl's daughter's name? Is she still living? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00957330199619910962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-17974806246190145552015-04-21T05:15:30.582-07:002015-04-21T05:15:30.582-07:00Thanks for catching my mistake. I have updated the...Thanks for catching my mistake. I have updated the post.Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-53489276785288357752015-04-20T13:07:51.159-07:002015-04-20T13:07:51.159-07:00Thanks for writing this!
Karl's wife actuall...Thanks for writing this! <br /><br />Karl's wife actually died several years BEFORE he did. Walter Sobchakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15224303332885542496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-39922207736570805802014-06-07T08:34:09.111-07:002014-06-07T08:34:09.111-07:00Thanks for doing the research on Karl, I was tryin...Thanks for doing the research on Karl, I was trying to find out information on him.Michigan WW1 Centennialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00135329931308754887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-88558005586688698852012-09-01T22:09:37.977-07:002012-09-01T22:09:37.977-07:00I couldn't find any information about it. He w...I couldn't find any information about it. He wrote one volume of his autobiography,<i> Myself when young</i>, which dealt with his childhood. He had plans for another volume, but I could not find any publication record for it.<br /><br />My guess is that he would have known someone who got an exception made - probably someone who he knew as a reporter - like you say, 51 year old men joining up would be rare.Sai Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480681895921130917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099827080854690588.post-53199631231055540822012-09-01T07:17:58.079-07:002012-09-01T07:17:58.079-07:00I notice that Detzer was 51 when he enlisted durin...I notice that Detzer was 51 when he enlisted during WW II. Reminds me of Dashiell Hammett enlisting at 48 despite poor teeth, bad health, and being skinny as a rail. Usually men trying to enlist at this age were turned down. I'd like to find out how they managed to get in, etc.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com