Category: crime fiction

cover art by William F. Soare

February 1940 [image updated 10/2/24]

cover art by William F. Soare

artwork first used on Detective Yarns’ second issue, September 1938

better images than previously posted

[updated 10/28/25]

May 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

May 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

Oscar Schisgall, “Gambling Man” (Danny Fenton)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Curse” (Needle Mike)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Dead Sees Red”

William Edward Hayes, “Hot Shot to Hell” (Dan Howell)

O.B. Myers, “The Corpse Watch (Tuttle and Tommy Merkle)