April 1940 issue

April 1940 issue

cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer

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The Editors, “Meeting the Story-Maker – Donald G. Cormack”

Ray King, “Brides for Murdered Men”

Dane Gregory, “Golden Lady of Death” (Rocky Rhodes)

Russell Gray, “Girls for the Coffin Syndicate” (Ben Bryn)

W. Wayne Robbins, “Mad Is the Flesh-Master!“

Donald G. Cormack, “Satan’s Surgeon”,  given as “Corpse Surgeon” on the cover (Tom Cardigan)

(cover art repurposed from January 1935 issue)

March 1947 issue ~ cover art by Robert Stanley

March 1947 issue

cover art by Robert Stanley

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Francis K. Allan, “What Makes Sammy Kill?”

Thorne Lee, “It’s in the Bag!”

Jimmy Nichols, “Cops Are Born”

Robert Turner, “Party to Murder!”

John D. FitzGerald, “Too Mean to Live!”

Arthur Leo Zagat,“Death-Dance of the Broken Dolls”

Talmage Powell, “Blood in Your Eye!”

Cyril Plunkett, “Deadly Is My Sleep”

Wilbur S. Peacock, “Copperhead”

Dale Clark, “Corpses, Incorporated” (Socrates Bean)

Jhan Robbins, “The Waxwork Wake”

1953 Ace Double reissue

pseudonym of Howard Fast

1952 from Little as Fallen Angel, 1953 Ace Double reissue with new title

filmed by Universal in 1965 as Mirage, directed by Edward Dmytryk and again in 1968 as Jigsaw, directed by James Goldstone

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