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January 1943 issue

January 1943 issue

better image than previously posted

Day Keene, “Rhapsody in Blood”

Francis K. Allan, “The Dead Are Not Beautiful”

Frederick C. Davis, “Corpses in the Rain”

Fredric Brown, “A Lock of Satan’s Hair”

Robert Turner, “Music for the Murder Maestro”

May 15, 1923 issue ~ cover art by A. Rose

May 15, 1923 issue

cover art by A. Rose

better image than previously posted

~ Raymond J. Brown, “Phantom Bullets”, part 4 of 5, only work in BM

~ Jack Carlton, “Four Shots”, ‘cemetery tale’, 1of 2 stories in BM

~ Carroll John Daly, “Three Gun Terry”, 1st of 2 with PI Terry Mack, 4th of 71 appearances in BM, reprinted in The Black Mask Boys (1985, Morrow). Reprinted in The Man in the Shadows: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Terry Mack (Steeger Books, 2021).

~ Carl Glick, “In the Grey Dawn”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Charles T. Jordan, “A Matter of Postage”, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Herman Petersen, “In Mutiny”, ‘A weird thing’, 7th of 20 stories in BM

~ Robert Russell, “The Snake”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Charles Somerville, “The Clue in the Turf”, ‘“Honest John” Brunen, murder victim & Ellis Parker, detective’, 8th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, 8th of 49 total articles in BM

~ Joe Taylor, “Ragged Seams”, 8th of 12 tales in ‘My Underworld’ series, 9th of 13th appearances in BM

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April 1938 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

April 1938 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted, cover credit corrected

T.T. Flynn, “The Nightingale Sings Death” (Bill Jennings)

Frederick C. Davis, “Maestro of Murder” (Keyhole Kerry)

John Lawrence, “Body About Town” (Marquis of Broadway)

O.B. Myers, “Second-Hand Coffin” (Chief Carmody)

Cyril Plunkett, “Half a Crime”