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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February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

February 1936 issue

cover art by Tom Lovell

Carroll John Daly, “Corpse & Co.” (Race Williams)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Cop” (Needle Mike)

T.T. Flynn, “The Bride of the Beast” (Steve Waring)

Donald S. Aitken, “Postlude to Murder”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Coffin” (Kip Lacey of Central Airways)

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February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

February 1936 issue

better image than previously posted

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

Richard B. Sale, “Murder to Order”(Penny Packer)

Preston Grady, “Mystery of the Vampire Bat”

Charlton L. Edholm, “Fox Trail”

Edmond Hamilton, “The Ramrod Key Killings”

James W. Routh, “The Frame”

Darrell Jordan, “The Perfect Set-Up”

Arthur J. Burks, “Death by Inches” (Duff Braden)

Forbes Parkhill, “Playboy”

Donald S. Aitken, “Millionaire Complex”

Norman A. Daniels, “The Painted Trail”

William G. Bogart, “Tapped Wires”