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August 1, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

August 1, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Easy to Kill” (Izzy O’Shea)

John Lawrence, “Call All Cars!” (Cass Blue)

Hugh B. Cave, “The Late Mr. Smythe” (Peter Kane)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Fair and Murder” (Jones & Jones)

Allan Vaughan Elston, “Star Witness”

Donald Barr Chidsey, “Dead Man’s Dinner” (Det. Colohan)

D.E. Winstead, “Heel Prints” (PI Tyson of Townsend Agency)

this is the first issue with 144 pages

June 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ Donald S. Aitken, “The Same Old Oil”, ‘Jack Gale, private dick’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Paul Allenby, “Overseer of the Poor”, ‘short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Tong Trouble”, 67th of 73 with Ed Jenkins, with Soo Hoo Duck and Ngat T’oy, 94th of 100 appearances in BM

~ John Lawrence, “Body of Evidence”, ‘Al Hackett, Broadway squad (plainclothes), 1st-person narrator’, reprinted in Body of Evidence: The Complete Black Mask Cases of the Broadway Squad (Steeger, 2025), 6th of 14 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Clamp Down”, 8th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 14th of 27 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Too Many Angles”, ‘Donovan, the “hard-luck shamus”’, 45th of 50 appearances in BM

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