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July 1946 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

July 1946 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

Andrew Holt, “A Bier for Belinda”

Ennen Reaves Hall, “Dime-a-Dance Corpse”

John D. Fitzgerald, “The Merchants of Penance”

John D. MacDonald, “Bury the Pieces!”

Ken Lewis, “The Moon Was Black”

Cyril Plunkett, “The Judas Touch”

Dale Clark, “Look Alive—You’re Dead!” (Socrates Bean)

April 1939 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

April 1939 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “The Devil’s Derby” (Mr. Maddox)

Raymond Chandler, “Pearls are a Nuisance”

Fred MacIsaac, “Murder at the Beauty Show” (Rambler Murphy)

John Lawrence, “Old Wives’ Tale” (Marquis of Broadway)

Dale Clark, “Mercy Killing”

with a simple listing of his name on the cover, along with those of his colleagues, the editors could not have been aware that they were publishing one of Raymond Chandler’s masterpieces. The Big Sleep had been published just two months before, on February 6.

July 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1945 issue

~ Frances Beck, “Dig Down Deep”, only story in BM

~ Anthony Boucher [pseud. of William Anthony Parker White], “The Catalyst”, only story by Boucher in BM

~ D.L. Champion, “Spend, Killer, Spend”, 18th of 26 with Rex Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), 20th of 30 stories in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Open and Shut”, 21st of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 24th of 32 stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “The Witch of Endor County”, 6th of 17 stories with ‘Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 11th of 23 stories in BM

~ Henry Norton, “Here’s Homicide”, ‘Barney & Brownie, writers of a smash-hit radio whodunnit show with same name’, 5th of 6 stories in BM

~ Michael Sutton, “Jail Will Be Lonely”, Steve Duncan, hotel bouncer, 1st of 2 stories in BM

~ Fergus Truslow, “Death on Ice”, ‘Hendricks, rookie cop in L.A’, 1st of 6 stories in BM

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September 1945 Canadian issue

[updated and corrected 1/29/26]

April 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

April 1936 issue

cover art by Tom Lovell

better image than previously posted

Arthur Leo Zagat, Girl for the Torture God

Dale Clark, “Death’s Painted Priestess”

Paul Ernst, Satan’s Servant

Emerson Graves. “Come with Me to Hell!”

Roger Howard Norton, “Desire of the Undead”

Wyatt Blassingame, My Love Brings Death!

Arthur J. Burks, Invitation to the Morgue

William B. Rainey, “Prey of the Beast-Woman”