
Federal Men Comics #2 (Gerard Publ. Co., 1945)
Cover swipe from Detective Comics #9 (originally by Joe Shuster).

Federal Men Comics #2 (Gerard Publ. Co., 1945)
Cover swipe from Detective Comics #9 (originally by Joe Shuster).

cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer
better image than previously posted
~ Carroll John Daly, “’The Flame’ and Race Williams”, 40th of 53 with RW, part 2 of 3, ‘pub.as The Third Murderer (1931)’, 52nd of 71 appearances in BM
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “Blue Glass”, 5th of 6 parts in the ‘Rainbow Diamonds’ sequence that take Jo Gar from Manila to San Francisco, 14th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Tommy Talk”, 35th of 73 Ed Jenkins, returns after the death of his wife Helen, out of hospital and in Chinatown with Soo Hoo Duck, Ngat T’oy, 1st of 3 connected stories (9/1931 and 12/1931), 52nd of 99 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Death for a Dago”, 15th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.2 (Altus, 2013), 32 of 67 stories in BM
~ Bertrand W(illiam) Sinclair, “Ananias and the Sapphires”, ‘Western; Andy Nason’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Stewart Stirling, (possible pseud. of Stewart Sterling?), “Cold Blood”, 3rd of 8 stories with ‘Johnny Hi Gear, a.k.a. K-5, Undercover Agent’
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cover art by John Drew
better image than previously posted
~ William Donald Bray, “A Keg of Muscatel”, ‘murder at a winery’, last of 12 stories in BM
~ John K. Butler, “’G” – Heat”, ‘‘Brick’ Hammond, G-man’, 1st of 11 stories in BM
~ Raymond Chandler, “Spanish Blood”, LAPD Delaguerra, first book reprint in the anthology Five Murderers (Avon digest, 1944), first hardcover appearance, The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin, 1950), 5th of 11 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Winter Kill”, 32nd of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, 61 of 67 stories in BM, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.4 (Altus, 2013)
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Five Spot”, ‘14th (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, 15th of 26 stories in BM
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[cover updated 11/8/25]