dale clark – SMB Noir

February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

February 1946 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

~ Thomson Burtis, “Deadline for Death”, ex-USA intelligence officer, now police Lt. Greg Sullivan, last of 6 appearances in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Murder Lode”, 24th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 27th of 32 stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “Flowers for Flanagan”, 10th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1^st -person narrator’, 15th of 23 stories in BM

~ Roland Phillips, “The Sentinel of Green Cove”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ William Rough, “Shoot If You Must”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 2nd of 5 capers’ in BM

~ Ted Stratton, “Accounts Deceivable”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

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March 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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T.T. Flynn, “Hayseed Homicide”

Dale Clark, “Tag! You’re Dead” (Plates O’Rion)

D.L. Champion, “Go Home and Die! (Insp. Allhoff)

Cornell Woolrich, “What the Well-Dressed Corpse Will Wear”

Julius Long, “Accidents Will Happen”

December 1942 Canadian issue

December 1942

November 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

November 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

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Carroll John Daly, “The White-Headed Corpse” (Race Williams)

Michael Sutton, “The Devil’s Portrait”

Jan Dana, “Too Week to Kill” (Acme Indemnity Op)

Dale Clark, “The Short and Merry One”

Roger Torrey, “Fire Test”

Maurice Beam, “Mind Over Matter”

Robert K. Adams, “Curtain Call”

D.L. Champion, “Dumb Dick”

September 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

September 1936 issue

cover art by Tom Lovell

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Frederick C. Davis, “The Coming of the Mad Ones”

Paul Ernst, “Corpses in the Barn”

H.M. Appel, “We Are the Damned”

Clark Clayton, “Breakfast for the Dying”

Dale Clark, “Hounds of the Restless Dead”

Wayne Rogers, “Satan’s Slave Market”

June 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ D.L. Champion, “Split Fee”, 4^th of 26 with Sackler, 5^th of 30 stories in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Hot Towels”, 5th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 7^th of 32 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Death Do Us Part”, 4th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 4th of 20 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “The Cat with a Headache”, 5th of 10 with PI Cellini Smith, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 6th of 12 appearances in BM

~ Stewart Sterling, “Over My Dead Body”, 4th of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (Bomb & Forgery); see p.8 for note by SS on story’, 7^th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]

~ Roger Torrey, “Snakes in the Grass”, ‘3rd of Bryant (4 stories), a regular U.S. Army man, who works in a CCC camp; 1^st-person narrator’, ‘- in a Southern CCC camp’, 49th of 50 appearances in BM

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