Category: original art

July 1951 issue ~ cover art by Harry Barton

July 1951 issue

cover art by Harry Barton

~ Francis K. Allan, “Model for Death”, ‘reprint, not originally BM’, 2nd appearance in BM

~ Agatha Christie, “The Face of Helen”, reprint, not originally in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Once Around the Clock”, Flashgun Casey, reprinted from May ‘41, reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)

~ Robert C. Dennis, “Ride a Green Hearse”, last of 10 stories in BM, has the honor of being the last original story published in BM

~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “The Paper Doll”, last of 8 stories in BM [Hagemann does not note if this is original or a reprint]

~ Richard Sale, “Nail Down the Lid”, ‘reprint; not from BM’

LAST ISSUE OF THE ORIGINAL MAGAZINE

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September 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

September 1949 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

~ D.L. Champion, “Blackmail Backfire”, 25th of 26,‘Red Sackler & Joey Graham’, 29th of 30 stories in BM

~ Frederick C. Davis, “Let Me Kill You Sweetheart”, 14th of 16 stories in BM

~ James Hall, “Back Door to Hell”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Hiawatha Jones, “Murder Express”, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Louis L’Amour, “Collect from a Corpse”, noted author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Phil Richards, “The Slay’s the Thing”, ‘James Greer, ex-playwright’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Robert P. Toombs, “Not Necessarily Dead”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Robert Turner, “Man’s Best Friend”, ‘A dog named Satan’, 1st of 4 stories in BM

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[updated 3/1/26]

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

Gouache on board, 22 x 16-1/2 inches (55.9 x 41.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right

The work is published in The Bramble Bush by David Duncan (Macmillan, 1948).

1953 Pocket reissue

cover art by James Meese

1953 Bantam reissue

cover art by James Meese