March 1932 issue ~ cover art William Reusswig

March 1932, issue #5

cover art by William Reusswig

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Oscar Schisgall, “The Death Scream”

Edward Parrish Ware, “The Skull of Judgment” (Det. Tug Norton)

J. Allan Dunn, “Out of the Night”

Frederick Nebel, “Phantom Fingers” (Cardigan)

Carroll John Daly, “The Curtain of Frost” (Vee Brown)

Maxwell Hawkins, “Murder Digs Its Grave”

October 1932 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

October 1932 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

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Carroll John Daly, “As Midnight Strikes” (Vee Brown)

J. Allan Dunn, “The Saffron Shadow” (Fang Li)

Frederick Nebel, “The Dead Don’t Die” (Cardigan)

John Lawrence, “The Torso Trap” (Sam Beckett)

July 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

July 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Carroll John Daly, “Red Dynamite” (Vee Brown)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Corpse’s Bride” (Carter Cole, MD)

T.T. Flynn, “Murder Moon”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Other Bullet” (Kip Lacey)

William E. Barrett, “Death on the Double-O” (Blue Barrel)

March 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1945 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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H.H. Stinson, “Slay Binge” (Pete Rousseau)

Robert Martin, “G.I. Doublecross” (Jim Bennett)

Dale Clark, “Corpse on Parade” (High Price)

Thorne Lee, “The Whisperer”

Ralph Eldred, “Death Watch”

Ken Lewis, “This May Hurt a Little”

March 1936 issue

March 1936 issue

cover art attributed Malvin Singer, Walter Baumhofer, or Tom Lovell?

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Leslie T. White, “Matches in Hell” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)

Frederick Nebel, “The Sign of Murder” (Cardigan)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Silent Giantess” (Carter Cole, MD)

John Lawrence, “The Dope in the Death House (Colin Barr)

William E. Barrett, “The Blue Barrel” (Dean Culver, underworld gossip columnist)

August 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

August 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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Frederick Nebel, “Not So Tough” (Cardigan)

Fred MacIsaac, “Murder Reel” (Rambler Murphy)

J. Paul Suter, “Dead and Buried” (Horatio Humberton)

John Lawrence, “Guilty Party” (Cass Blue)

Edward S. Williams, “Seven Days Missing” (Det. Vance)

Dwight V. Babcock, “Pearls Without Publicity” (Kirk Daniels & Marcia Winters)

Anson Hatch, “Phantom Footsteps (Det. Larry Gilden)

April 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

April 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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T.T. Flynn, “A Horse of Another Killer, (Mr. Maddox)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Fingers of Ice” (Colonel Kaspir)

Norbert Davis, “Too Many Have Died” (Peter Tracy)

William Brandon, “Quiet Street”

Mark Lish, “Ashes in the Valley”

January 1944 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

January 1944 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

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Stewart Sterling, “The Secret of Madam Zenobia” (Gil Vine)

Noel Loomis, “Dummies Don’t Bleed!“

Bruno Fischer, “The Case of the Handless Corpse”

Francis K. Allan, “Death at the Brimstone Border”

Curtiss T. Gardner, “Satan’s Insidious Chessmen” (Val Vickers)

William R. Cox, “Hell Over Hollywood” (Tom Kincaid)

March 15, 1934 issue ~ cover art by John Newton Howitt

March 15, 1934 issue

cover art by John Newton Howitt

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T.T. Flynn, “Red Alibi” (Bob Blair)

Eric Taylor, “The Barbary Horrors” (Det. Jess Arno)

Frederick C. Davis, “Murder in Bronze” (John Law, PI)

only issue on which the magazine title appeared in red instead of the usual yellow

December 1938 issue ~ cover art by John Fleming Gould

December 1938 issue

cover art by John Fleming Gould

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Carroll John Daly, “The Quick and the Dead” (Race Williams)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Ghoul Hangs High” (Keyhole Kerry)

D.L. Champion, “Lock the Death House Door!”

O.B. Myers, “Don’t Bet on Ghosts” (Doc Kincaid)

Mark Harper, “Frame for a Fall-Guy”