In Popular Culture
Black Mask magazine was the specific pulp fiction magazine that inspired the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. Originally, the title of the film was Black Mask, before being changed.
An issue of Black Mask magazine features as a (planted) clue in the 1927 murder mystery novel Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers.
An episode of the 1990's television series Millennium mentions a 'literary journal' known as the 'Dark Mask' which featured detective fiction, an obvious parody of the Black Mask.
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