Hardboiled – Page 144 – SMB Noir

December 30, 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

December 30, 1939

cover by Rudolph Belarski

November 1940 issue

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April 1950 issue

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Impact #1 (EC, 1955) – cover art by Jack Davis

Impact #1 (EC, 1955) CGC VG- 3.5 Off-white pages. Features the famous story “Master Race” by Bernie Krigstein. This issue was not approved by the Comics Code because of Krigstein’s story’s Nazi concentration camp theme. Other artists include Jack Davis (cover), Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels, and George Evans

February 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

1955 EC comic – cover art by Jack Kamen

1955 EC comic, #26

cover art by Jack Kamen

June 1932 issue

Fall 1938 issue ~ cover art by George Gross

Fall 1938 – first of just three issues

cover art by George Gross

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March 1944 Canadian issue

March 1944 issue

a version of Rafael DeSoto’s January 1944 US issue

December 1945 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

December 1945 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

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Frederick C. Davis, “Death Can Wait” (Bill Brent)

Dale Clark, “Stay Close to Me”

Merle Constiner, “The Kitchen of Master Lefevre” (The Dean)

Julius Long, “Mostly for Murder” (C.D. Mort)

Robert C. Dennis, “Rear View of Hell”