cover art by H.J. Ward
better image than previously posted
[cover updated 11/20/25]
Category: updated
May 1937 issue ~ cover art by Dalton Stevens
September 1948 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake
cover art by Albert Drake
Frederick C. Davis, “Man About Murder”
T.T. Flynn, “I’ll Bet Your Life!” (Mr. Maddox)
Robert Martin, “Doctor of Doom”
Richard Dermody, “Cupid for Cash” (Doc Pierce)
Dean Evans, “Dreams Get Blasted, Too”
Russell Branch, “A Corpse Had Cold Feet”
[updated 5/12/25]
January 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Stewart Sterling, “Bull-Market for the Dying”
Francis K. Allan, “Am I the Corpse’s Keeper?“
William R. Cox, “Beware the Black Queen” (Tom Kincaid)
Wayne Rogers, “Murder Town”
Dane Gregory, “All at Once—No Wednesday!“
Russell Gray, “Death Hitch-Hikes South”
[cover updated 2/3/26]
So Rich, So Lovely and So Dead x 2
oil on board, 16 x 12-1/2 inches (40.6 x 31.8 cm)
Signed lower left: Zuckerberg
1953 Pocket reissue
1961 Dell reissue
[post updated 12/11/25]
July 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould
cover art by John Fleming Gould
better image than previously posted
D.L. Champion, “Cover the Corpse’s Eyes” (Insp. Allhoff)
Cornell Woolrich, “Charlie Won’t Be Home Tonight”
Sam Merwin, Jr., “Murder for Syndication”
Jan Dana, “The Second Loop” (Acme Indemnity Op)
Leslie T. White, “Me and My Shadow” (Omar MacKenzie)
[updated 2/2/26]
July 1943 issue ~ cover art by H.J. Ward
February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
better image than previously posted
Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”
Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)
Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”
Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”
Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”
Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”
Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”
John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”
Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill”
R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”
[cover updated 2/4/26]
SMB Noir 
