british pulp – Page 2

Cats Prowl at Night x 9

1943 William Morrow and Co., first edition

1949 Dell mapback – cover art by Gerald Gregg

1956 Dell reissue

1961 Corgi reissue from Australia

1961 Dell reissue – cover art by Robert McGinnis

1967 Four Square UK reissue

March 1968 Dell reissue

1975 Dell reissue

1991 Avon reissue

The Real Gone Goose x 5

1959 Doubleday hardcover in the US – dust jacket designed by Margot Tomes

1959 American Mercury digest – cover art by Dick Shelton

1960 Boardman hardcover in the UK – cover art by Denis McLoughlin

1960 Perma Books reissue

cover art by Harry Bennett

later Consul issue from the UK

pseudonym of Aaron Marc Stein

30th with Inspector Schmidt, head of the Manhattan Homicide Squad

The Satan Bug x 12

1961 Collins hardcover, true first with original title – cover designed by Pino Dell-Orco

1962 Collins hardcover, 2nd printing

1962 Scribners hardcover in the US

1963 Fontana reissue

the back of the book gave away the author’s true name

1964 Fontana reissue

1968 Fontana reissue – cover art by Renato Fratini

1970 Fawcett reissue – cover art by Bill Johnson

1973 Fontana reissue

1974 Fontana reissue

1978 Fawcett reissue

2008 Sterling reissue

September 1939 UK edition ~ cover art J. George Janes

September 1939 UK edition

cover art J. George Janes

better image than previously posted

~ 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], 1^st 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”, 5^th of 14 stories in BM

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

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

March 1938 British edition ~ cover art by Raymond S. Pease

March 1938 British edition

cover art by Raymond S. Pease

contents same as US issue:

~ Max Brand, “The Silent Witness”, short-short, 2^nd of 2 BM stories

~ Joseph Csida, “Bank Night Kill”, ‘narrated by a “contest dick”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ Steve Fisher, “You’ll Always Remember Me”, ‘young punk murderer; psychopathic narrator’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 4^th of 9 stories in BM

~ Frank Gruber, “Dog Show Murder”, 4th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), 5th of 14 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Three Apes from the East”, ‘Kerry Thorne, detective in L.A.’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 8th of 27 stories in BM

US March 1938 issue

better image than previously posted