Category: pulp

February 1939 issue

February 1939 issue

better image than previously posted

Edith & Ejler Jacobson, “Dead Man—Killer” (Nathaniel Perry/The Bleeder)

Leon Byrne, “Society of the Singing Death” (Dan Holden)

Loring Dowst, “The Green Madness” (Pendexter Riddle/The Human Question Mark)

Ray Cummings, “The Case of the Skinless Corpses” (George Roberts)

Donald G. Cormack, “Butcher on the Waterfront”

John Kobler, “Bubbles of Murder” (Peter Quest)

August 1, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

August 1, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

T.T. Flynn, “The Monster of Hangman’s Key (Bill Clark)

Oscar Schisgall, “Murder Upstairs” (Don Cheever)

John Lawrence, “Design for Dying” (Sam Beckett)

Leslie T. White, “The Silver Shadow” (Jud Lunn)

a profile and picture of Leslie T. White appear on pages 123-124

December 1, 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

December 1, 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

better image than previously posted

Carroll John Daly, “Blood on the Curtain” (Marty Day & Reckoner)

Allan Vaughan Elston, “Winking Death” (Arthur Baird & Patrick Shone)

T.T. Flynn, “Red Dollars” (Jerry Prince)

Oscar Schisgall, “Wrapped for Murder” (Dan Taggert, PI)

July 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1945 issue

~ Frances Beck, “Dig Down Deep”, only story in BM

~ Anthony Boucher [pseud. of William Anthony Parker White], “The Catalyst”, only story by Boucher in BM

~ D.L. Champion, “Spend, Killer, Spend”, 18th of 26 with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 20th of 30 stories in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Open and Shut”, 21st of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 24th of 32 stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “The Witch of Endor County”, 6th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 11th of 23 stories in BM

~ Henry Norton, “Here’s Homicide”, ‘Barney & Brownie, writers of a smash-hit radio whodunnit show with same name’, 5th of 6 stories in BM

~ Michael Sutton, “Jail Will Be Lonely”, Steve Duncan, hotel bouncer, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Fergus Truslow, “Death on Ice”, ‘Hendricks, rookie cop in L.A’, 1st of 6 stories in BM

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September 1945 Canadian issue

[updated and corrected 1/29/26]