

better image than previously posted

[updated 5/3/25]

January 1950 issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
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~ D.L. Champion, “Death for a Dollar”, last of 26 Rex Sackler stories, same title as 3/44, also a Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), last of 30 stories in BM
~ Robert C. Dennis, “Stop, You’re Killing Me!”, ‘Rhodes, shamus’, 6th of 10 stories in BM
~ Bruno Fischer, “The Lady Grooms a Corpse”, last of 5 stories in BM
~ Philip Ketchum, “One Sunk Punk”, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Roy Lopez, “The Murder’s All Mine”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Robert Martin, “Dirge in Bolero Time”, 4th of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective, 6th of 8 stories in BM
~ Marian O’Hearn, “Swansong for an Ugly Duckling”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Herb Schneiderman, “Homicide – According to Hoyle”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Tedd Thomey, “Come Hell or Hot Water”, 1st of 2 stories in BM
©Seattle Mystery Bookshop

War Against Crime #8 (EC, 1949) Johnny Craig cover.

Original Cover Art for War Against Crime #8 (EC, 1949). 13.5″ x 19″
[post updated 5/13/26]

cover painting by Robert Maguire
1954 Crown hardcover
July 1955 Signet paperback original, first printing
3rd with Kansas City private eye Johnny April


Gouache on board, 13.25 x 13.5 in. (sight)
Not signed
paperback cover of Free and Easy by Luther Gordon, Ecstasy, 1951.



cover art by George J. Rozen
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David Dresser was the real name of “Brett Halliday”