September 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “Mexican Slayride” (Mariano Mercado)

Dale Clark, “False Colors” (Plates O’Rion)

Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Four Skeletons” (The Dean)

Mel Watt, “Killer Come Back to Me” (Sam Coad)

Bruno Fischer, “I’ll Slay You in My Dreams”

Ken Lewis, “Parlor, Bedroom and Death”

May 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Gee-Gee Doublecross” (Mr. Maddox)

C.William Harrison, “The Bones of Barnaby Bliss” (Hannibal Smith)

Dale Clark, “Better Late Than Cadaver” (High Price)

Julius Long, “Chicanery Row” (C.D. Mort)

Robert C. Dennis, “Dial Your Own Murder” 

November 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

November 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Dale Clark, “Stay, Fido, Stay” (Highland Park “High” Price)

Lawrence Treat, “Death on the Palette”

G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Dig a Grave for Me”

Alan Farley, “A Mouse in the Hand”

Julius Long, “C.D. for Corpus Delicti” (Clarence Darrow Mort)

Henry Norton, “No Tears for the Lady”

[updated 11/15/25]

January 1944 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

January 1944 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Merle Constiner, “The Affair of the Pharmacist’s Fudge” (The Dean)

Dale Clark, “Sing fro Your Shroud” (Plates O’Rion & Sal)

Francis K. Allan, “Death in Fool’s Disguise”

C.P. Donnel, Jr., The Flyin’ Icebox” (Colonel Kapir)

Richard Dermody, “The Doctor’s Treatment” (Doc Pierce)