October 1952 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

October 1952 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Bert Sims, “Beautiful, Blue and Deadly”

Larry Holden, “Murder and the Mermaid” (Gil Gilchrist)

Mel Colton, “Something to Shoot About” (PI Steve Stone)

Dane Gregory, “Self-Out!” [reprinted from 1942, originally titled “Remember the Blood and Tears”]

Carroll John Daly, “Death Rehearsal” (Willie Bloto)

Dick Goggin, “Danny, Get Your Gun!”

Fletcher Flora, “Ghoul to Go!”

Julius Long, “Mr. Mouthpiece” (Barry Bodine)

January 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Pharmacist’s Fudge” (The Dean)

Dale Clark, “Sing fro Your Shroud” (Plates O’Rion & Sal)

Francis K. Allan, “Death in Fool’s Disguise”

C.P. Donnel, Jr., The Flyin’ Icebox” (Colonel Kapir)

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Treatment” (Doc Pierce)

February 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “The Day Nobody Died” (Inspector Allhoff)

Lawrence Treat, “Death’s Old Sweet Song” (Edward Asa Scott)

Julius Long, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy”

Alan Farley, “Man’s Best Friend is His Murder”

Clyde Morehead, “The Remembering Skull”

Berna Morris, “Winter Violets”