December 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

December 1948 issue

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cover art by Norman Saunders

T.T. Flynn, “Mr Maddox’s Phoney-Finish”

John D. MacDonald, “No Grave Has My Love”

Philip Ketchum, “Meet Miss Murder”

B.J. Benson, “Homicide in a Hurry” (Shamus Dobson)

Raymond Drennan, Jr., “I Take This Doom”

Robert Turner, “How Dead Can You Get”

[Saunders’ artwork and some of the stories used for the August 1950 UK issue of Black Mask]

September 1939 UK edition ~ cover art J. George Janes

September 1939 UK edition

cover art J. George Janes

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~ Frank Collinson, “Death on the Prairie” [Part 2 of 2] ~ article does not appear in the US issue

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dark Alleys”, 66th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, this one a spy story with Ngat T’oy and Soo Hoo Duck (‘Soo has a name for Jenkins – Sai Yan Pang Yeu: Man of the West Who is My Friend’)

~ Bill Gerry, “Autopsies Tell” [spelling in Hagemann], 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Headless Angel”, 11th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, this one in a swamp

~ John Lawrence, “Death to Spare”, 5th of 14 stories in BM

~ Peter Paige, “I Guard Nudes”, ‘factual article; PP is guard at New York’s World’s Fair’, 1st of 12 stories in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “Crime by the Forelock”, 13th of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM

October 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1939 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John Lawrence, “Man Hunt” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Dead and Dumb” (Inspector Allhoff)

Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder March of the Toy Soldiers”

Martin Labas, “The Devil’s Burden”

O.B. Myers, “Diamonds Can’t Swim”