

[updated 3/8/24 with the original art]

August 1935 issue
cover art by Walter Baumhofer
Frederick Nebel, “The Dead Die Twice” (Cardigan)
James P. Olsen, “Island of Skulls”
Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Crimson Claws” (Carter Cole, MD)
Charles Alexander, “The Half-Corpse Horrors”
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Cobra” (Needle Mark)
[Nebel story mis-titled on cover – correct is “Die”, not “Died”]
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cover art by Fred Craft
~ Jack Bertin, “Rider in the Night”, last of 5 with Chip Huard, last of 6 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Earned Reward”, 10th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 10th of 31 stories in BM
~ James Duncan, “Crook Bait”, 2nd of 3 with ‘fat man’/investigator Ivor Small
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Ghost of a Chance”, last of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 58 of 67 stories in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Death By Arrangement”, “Max Ward, ‘the famous little Broadway ticket broker’, erroneously titled ‘Death by Appointment’ on table of contents”, only non-Jerry Tracy story, 10th of 26 stories in BM
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February 1936 issue
cover art by Tom Lovell
Carroll John Daly, “Corpse & Co.” (Race Williams)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Cop” (Needle Mike)
T.T. Flynn, “The Bride of the Beast” (Steve Waring)
Donald S. Aitken, “Postlude to Murder”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Coffin” (Kip Lacey of Central Airways)
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cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Day Keene, “Sweet Tooth of Murder”
Frederick C. Davis, “Boomerang Scoop” (Bill Brent)
D.L. Champion, “Shake Well Before Dying” (Insp. Allhoff)
Nelson A. Hutton, “Killer’s Dead End”
Georges Carousso, “The Potter’s Hand”
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