December 1926 issue ~ cover art by H.C. Murphy

December 1926 issue

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cover art by Henry C. Murphy

~ Tom Curry, “The Dick-Killer”, 5th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, ‘on the NY docks’, 9th of 39 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Dead Men’s Letters”, 12th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, this one with ‘Lois Lambert, a young and rich flapper’, reprinted in Dead Men’s Letters (1990, Carroll & Graf anthology of Jenkins stories), 20th of 99 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The War-Steamer of Donna Clotilde”, 2nd of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “I.O.U. – One Life”, 3rd of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 3rd of 39 stories in BM

~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 3rd of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927

~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Makings”, “Western; Alexis Gregory, nom de querre of Prince Dimitri Gregorejovich Alexandrov’, first fiction by the future editor, 1st of 7 fiction appearances

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Ten Hours”, 1st of 7 ‘Chuck Reddington & Jake Bailey; aviation stories’, 8th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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November 1926 issue ~ cover art by H.C. Murphy

November 1926

cover art by Henry C. Murphy

~ Carroll John Daly, “Half-Breed”, 16th of 53 with ‘Race Williams among the Oklahoma oil-rich Indians’, reprinted in Them That Lives By Their Guns: The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams, Vol. 1 (Altus Press, 2015), 24th of 71 appearances in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Money, Marbles and Chalk”, 11th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘still a ‘crook’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 19th of 99 stories in BM

~ (Charles John) Cutcliffe Hyne, “The Guns for Cuba”, 1st of 8 yarns with Captain Kettle, author’s debut in BM

~ Don Livingston, “The Awakening of Bash Langley”, ‘modern-day Western’, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Grain to Grain”, ‘Corson & Gleason, ex-gangster and ex-boxer turned dicks’, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014), 2 of 67 stories

~ Lt. Col. J.H. [John Henry] Patterson, D.S.O., “The Man-Eaters of Tsavo”, 2nd of 7 serialized parts of this ex-British Army officer’s account of building a railway in Kenya, 1898-1899; book published in 1927

~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Delivered Goods”, ‘aviator hero; see headnote for data on RFW’, 7th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]

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