Category: pulp

January 1939 issue ~ cover art by James Lunnon

January 1939 issue

cover art by James Lunnon

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~ James Duncan, “Murder for Pennies”, last of 5 stories with The Parson, who lives on a ‘mythical’ (fictional?) isle, Cariba, reprinted in Murder for Pennies: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Parson (Steeger, 2024), last of 10 appearances in BM

~ Steve Fisher, “Jake and Jill”, ‘Honolulu setting’, 7th of 9 stories in BM

~ Jackson Gregory, “Dusty Death”, 1st of 2 stories in BM, this the only original one (see 5/1951)

~ H.W. Guernsey, “A Thousand Iron Men”, ‘iron men’ = $1 bill’, 3rd of 4 stories in BM

~ Eric Howard, “The Doc and the Dame”, last of 6 stories in BM

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Arson”, 9th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, ‘see p. 63 for note by BHK on story’

~ H.H. Stinson, “All-American Menace”, 10th of 27 stories in BM

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October 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

October 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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John K. Butler, “Hacker’s Holiday” (Steve Midnight)

John Lawrence, “Gallows 9” (Marquis of Broadway)

D.L. Champion, “Suicide in Blue (Insp. Allhoff)

Roger Torrey, “Candidate for a Killing”

O.B. Myers, “Death Laughs at Locksmiths”

May 1939 issue

May 1939 issue

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Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Killer-Diller”

Jan Dana, “Movable Alibi” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Leslie T. White, “Whole Hog or Nothing” (Sergeant Mackey)

O.B. Myers, “Cash on the Line”

Herbert Koehl, “Too Many Lefts”

Jackson Gregory, Jr., “Black is White”

April 1949 issue

April 1949 issue

cover art by Albert Drake?

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Robert Martin, “Murder the Bum” (Stephen Abbott)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Merry Queen of Murder” (Thackeray Hackett)

John D. MacDonald, “The Corpse Belongs to Daddy” (Donald Cheyne)

James A. Kirch, “Shoot If You Must” (Brad Harkness)

Dorothy Dunn, “Oblivion for Me” (Hollis Dorsey)

Johanas L. Bouma, “Bury Your Own Dead” (Joe Bowers)

Stuart Friedman, “Angel in the Deathhouse” (Thad Preston)

Jack Winters, “Slayer at Sea” (Thomas Brain)

October 1941 issue ~ cover art by Milton Luros

October 1941 issue

cover art by Milton Luros

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D.L. Champion, “The Corpse That Wasn’t There” (Insp. Allhoff)

Norbert Davis, “Come UP and Kill Me Some Time” (Bail Bond Dodd)

Cornell Woolrich, “Murder at Mother’s Knee” (Johnny Gaines)

T.T. Flynn, “Salt Water Slay-Ride”

Jan Dana, “Death with Father” (Acme Indemnity Op)