October – December 1950 issue ~ cover art by Robert Stanley

October – December 1950

cover art by Robert Stanley

first and only issue, all stories reissued from past fiction magazines

March-April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

March-April 1938

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cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Cornell Woolrich, “Jane Brown’s Body”

H. Bedford-Jones, “Seven Stars”

Max Brand, “Nine Flights to Waterloo”

Robert Carse, “Without Horns”

Richard Howells Watkins, “Smooth Sailor”

Philip Ketchum, “Guns for Kansas”

Richard Sale,“Duello”

Frank Richardson Pierce, “Mosquito Country”

Stookie Allen: Dollars and Sense

Theodore Roscoe, “Dark Rebellion”

March 4, 1939 issue

cover art by William Reusswig?

Cornell Woolrich’s “Those Who Kill” published, which he expanded into Phantom Lady

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December 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer

“The Curse of Cardigan” (PI Cardigan), Frederick Nebel

“Rapped in Cellophane” (Mark Hall), J. Allan Dunn

“Murder on the Mississippi” (Rambler Murphy), Fred MacIsaac

“The House of Sudden Sleep” (Leon Pell), Hugh B. Cave

“Dead on her Feet” (Det. Smith), Cornell Woolrich

“Blood Orchids” (Dade), O.B. Myers

April 1936 issue ~ cover art by Malvin Singer

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cover art by Malvin Singer

Carroll John Daly, “Just Another Stiff” (Race Williams)

Fred MacIsaac, “Cat’s-Paw for Murder” (Rambler Murphy)

Frederick Nebel, “Lead Poison” (Cardigan)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Living Lie Down with the Dead”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Diamond”

May 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

May 1938 issue

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cover art by John Fleming Gould

Fred MacIsaac, “Nobody’s Stooge” (Rambler Murphy)

William E. Barrett, “The Devil’s Dice” (Blue Barrel)

John K. Butler, “Why Shoot a Corpse?” (Tricky Enright)

O.B. Myers, “The Golden Gag”

Cornell Woolrich, “Short-Order Kill”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Five Seconds to Murder”

Lawrence Treat, “The Ghoul with the Green Eyes”