
July 1973 issue

B. W. ROCKEY (American, 20th Century)
Crime pulp cover re-creation, dated 1937
Oil on canvas. 29.5 x 21.5 in.
Signed lower left
June 1938 issue – cover art by Jerome Rozen


pseudonym of Charles Weiser Frey
1956 Ace Double paperback original
cover art by Rudy Nappi

Jean Harlow in a production still from The Best of the City (Charles Brabin, 1932)

cover art by Jules Erbit?
better image than previously posted
~ John Baer, “A Wholesaler in Crime”, ‘compete mystery novelette’, his last of 24 stories in BM
~ Edwin Baird, “This Way Out”, short-short, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Peter Chance, “The Scarlet Scalpel”, only appearance in BM
~ Ray(mond King) Cummings, “T. McGuirk – Detective”, ‘5th of 14 McGuirk stories, billed as “the quaintest character in the Underworld” & honest, more of less’, 5th of 15 stories in BM
~ Arthur Fetter, “The Treachery of Spike McGuire”, ‘A Queer Glimpse of the Underworld’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Henry W. Fisher, “Odd Bits”, ‘short-lived feature; not indexed past this point’
~ Geoffrey Foster, “Bedlam”, ‘short-short’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Kenneth Fuessle, “Superstition”, ‘Adventure in Weird Surroundings’, author’s only appearance in BM
~ K. Godwin, “Conscience”, ‘Billed as BM’s “first one-act play”’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Robert Lee Heiser, “The World’s Greatest Mystery”, ‘true account of the murder of Clare Stone, a child, in Baltimore; would occupy readers for some time; not indexed beyond this point’
~ William Rollins, Jr., “A Song of India”, ‘billed as an ‘Oriental adventure in a small town’, 3rd of 23 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Camp Dix Mystery”, 12th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 13th of 49 total articles in BM
~ Merlin Moore Taylor, “One of Five”, part 1 of 2, 2nd of 8 appearances in BM
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