August 10, 2025 – SMB Noir

August 1954 – premiere issue

August 1954 – debut issue

cover art attributed to Karl Milray or Carl Hulings

better image than previously posted

pseudonym of Frederick C. Davis

1960 Doubleday hardcover, a Crime Club selection, this the later UK paperback

cover art by Barye Phillips

3rd with Aloysius Algernon Steele, a private eye who prefers to be called “Rocky”

West was a black physician who lived in Liberia and specialized in tropical diseases, and who wrote hardboiled pulp about a white shamus in NYC

cover art by Victor Kalin

3rd Florida with private eye Brad Dolan

better image than previously posted