February 1938 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

February 1938 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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T.T. Flynn, “Dead Man’s Debt” (Mr Maddox)

Fred MacIsaac, “The Duchess of Diamonds” (Rambler Murphy)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chief” (Needle Mike)

Herbert Koehl, “Thirty Grand”

John Lawrence, “Boomerang Blastout” (Marquis of Broadway)

October 1938 issue ~ cover art by J. George Janes

October 1938 issue

cover art by J. George Janes

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~ Russell Bender, “Body-Guard to Death”, ‘Jake Connolly’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Frederick C. Davis, “This Way to the Morgue”, 1st of 2 with reporter Murray Gifford, 5th of 16 stories in BM

~ Frank Gruber, “Forced Landing”, 6th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, ‘Quade in Hollywood; see p.5 for letter from FG on Oliver Q.’, 9th of 14 stories in BM

~ Baynard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “The Death Pool”, 7th of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida

~ Roger Torrey, “Gardenia Kill”, ‘9th (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 36th of 50 appearances in BM

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June 1953 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

June 1953 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Second Massacre!” (Cash Wale)

D.L. Champion, “Toast the Poison Princess” (A. Dasher)*

J.L. Bouma, “ – And Hope to Die!”

Charles Beckman, Jr., “How to Kill a Corpse”

Fletcher Flora, “ – Time to Kill – ”

Grover Brinkman, “Last Warning!”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Dope in the Dark”

Dennis Wiegano, “Letter of the Law”

* “Toast the Poison Princess” reprinted from 1945