SMB Noir

July (Summer) 1942 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

T.T. Flynn, “The Black Phantom” (Det. Dan O’Shea)

Frederick Nebel, “Doorway to Danger” (Cardigan)

John Lawrence, “The Corpse in Cage Two” (Sam Beckett)

MacKinlay Kantor, “The Shadow Point”

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Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper laid on board, 20 x 13 in. (sight)
Signed lower right

This illustration was published as the cover for Manhandled by Whitman Chambers, Monarch #434, 1964.

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Arnold Lorne Hicks

Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”

cover art by Edgar Franklin Wittmack

cover art by Tom Lovell

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cover art by William F. Soare

cover art by George Rozen

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[updated 2/24/25]

1951 Dell 1st edition thus

William Irish was one of the pen names used by Cornell Woolrich

the novelette was originally published as by Woolrich in the May 3, 1941