On a rainy day in May Otto Greenfield walked in with his brother Kevin to shoot a few games. Dean knew who Otto was from frequenting the Greenfield Publishing offices trying to submit some stories for their pulp magazine, Crime Scene. He struck up a game with Otto. If Dean lost he would give Otto fifty bucks. If Dean won, Otto would print one of his stories. Greenfield fancied himself a pool shark and thought it was an easy bet. Unfortunately, he never got a shot off because Dean cleared the rack. The next day he handed in a manuscript for a hardboiled story titled, Up the Creek. Dean proved his skills with a solid story and Greenfield kept him on as a regular.

Crime Scene was similar to most pulp magazines. The stories were pretty violent and packed to the walls with non-stop action. Greenfield kept a select group of authors in his camp and didn't trust many newcomers. Most of the covers were painted by Bob Saxon, who also did many movie posters for the serials in the thirties and forties.

In looking at the covers you'll notice that most of the women were wearing red dresses. Red was a color that was known to generate sexuality and excitement. It also stood out on the magazine shelves among the other titles. Unfortunately, the market was changing and the days of the pulps were numbered. Greenfield stopped publishing Crime Scene in mid 1956.

Dean appeared in every issue of Crime Scene from December 1954 to June 1956. The above thumbnails are the magazines in my personal collection.