May 1937 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

May 1927 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

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~ J. Edgar Ambler, “The Buzzard”, ‘The Buzzard & the Cracker, criminals’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Tom Curry, “The Stick-Up Club”, 8th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, 13th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “In Full Account”, 16th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, last of 3 with ‘The Girl with the Mole’, reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), 25th of 99 stories in BM

~ Dashiell Hammett, “$106,000 Blood Money” Continental Op [21st of 25], sequel to “The Big Knock-Over”, in the 2/1927 issue, reprinted with its prequel as Blood Money (Tower, 1943), reprinted in The Big Book of the Continental Op (Vintage, 2017), 30th of 51 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Liner and the Iceberg”, 7th of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle

~ Don Livingston, “No Grandstand Play”, Western, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Riblew Reelhew, “Eyes of the Night”, ‘Dandy Dan, nimble & nimble-witted crook’, 2nd of 2 stories under this pseudonym, an anagram of Wilber Wheeler

~ Victor Shaw, “For a Girl Like That”, ‘Western detective’, 1st of 5 stories in BM

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “South of Savannah”, 4th of 7 Chuck Reddington story; airplanes & machineguns’, 12th of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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What Mad Universe x 9

September 1948 issue ~ debut of the story

cover art by Earle Bergey

1949 Dutton hardcover – first book appearance

1950 Bantam reissue – cover art by Herman Bischoff

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1951 Boardman hardcover from Britain – cover art by Dennis McLoughlin

1954 Bantam reissue – cover art by Charles Binger

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1954 Boardman paperback reissue – cover art by Pagram

1978 Bantam reissue – cover art by Paul Lehr

1978 Pennyfarthing Press hardcover, limited edition reissue

cover art by Grant Canfield

1981 Doubleday reissue

November 1943 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

November 1943 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

Day Keene, “The Man from Hell”

Russell Gray, “I’ll Slay You Later”

Joe Kent, “Suicide Symphony”

William R. Cox, “Murder in Cinema City” (Tom Kincaid)

Francis K. Allan, “Mail from the Murdered”

Stuart Friedman, “Vengeance of the Voodoo Dancers”

November 21, 2013