Velda: Girl Detective is a multileveled representation of the more lurid of the 1950s crime comics as if it actually existed as a classic Golden Age comic. The series is more than just a passing homage to the noir films and hard-boiled detective school of writing of the 1950s as it includes and vintage ads as well as featurettes such as "Hawkshaw Hawk, Bird Detective" and "Neolithica: Girl of the Pleistocene." In this second volume, short tales of Velda continue in of Velda "Goes to the Circus" and "Goes to Hollywood" plus Velda hypnotized, visiting a dude ranch, and Velda against a crazed strangler. See the action tales of a burlesque queen who became a private eye. As a special bonus, this volume contains Velda's calendar pinups