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May 1, 1930 issue ~ cover art by Duncan McMillan

cover art by Duncan McMillan

November 1st, 1936

cover art attributed to George Rozen but the “R” looks like William Reusswig’s ‘signature’

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September 1942 issue

cover art by Milton Luros?

Frederick C. Painton, “You’ll Be Dead at Eleven!“

Raoul Schumacher, “Tough Guys Die Laughing”

Carl Rathjen, “A White Faced Man Will Hang” (Happy “Hurry” Kaine)

Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Cop in the Steel Coffin”

T. W. Ford, “Murder for a Maniac” (Damon Spane)

David Goodis, “A Smile and a Nod”

cover art by Dalton Stevens

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image previously used on November 1933 issue

post updated 12/2/23

cover art by H.L. Parkhurst

cover art by Delos Palmer

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Augist 30 1922

cover art by Charles Durant

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May 1936 issue

cover art by John Drew

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~ W.T. Ballard, “Blackmailers Die Hard”, 14th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 19th of 43 stories in BM

~ John K. Butler, “Dark Return”, ‘Mark Dana, ex-G-man’, 3^rd of 11 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Murder Mixup”, 16^th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 18^th of 31 stories in BM, reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Omnibus (1946)

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Beating the Bulls”, 63th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 88th of 99 stories in BM

~ Eric Taylor, “Murder to Music”, ‘Jess Arno, private eye’, 6th of 7 stories in BM