1950 edition – only issue published ~ cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

1950 edition

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

better image than previously posted

reprinted stories from 1934 – 1940

cover art by Darcy (Ernest Chiriacka)

The Big Fix, paperback cover, 1960
Watercolor and gouache on board
10 x 13-3/4 inches (25.4 x 34.9 cm) (image)
Signed with pseudonym lower right

The present work is published on the cover of The Big Fix by Ed Lacy (Pyramid, 1960). It was also republished as an interior illustration in ‘The Demonstration’, Man’s Magazine, May 1964.

[background colored in by some nitwit…]

updated 12/20/23

September 1945 issue ~ cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

September 1945 issue

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka

Talmage Powell, “Uneasy Lies the Headstone” (Abner Murder/Mr. Murder)

Joe Archibald, “One Meat Brawl” (Dizzy Duo)

William Hellman (given as by William Hellmann), “A Word to the Wiseguy”

Emil Petaja, “Welcome Home to Nightmare”

Bill Morgan, “Death Paints a Poster”

E.C. Marshall, “Murder after the Fact”

William Rough, “Say Hello to Satan”

Lewis A. Keppen, “No License to Slay”

Berna Morris, “Station K-I-L-L Calling”

Rex Whitechurch, “Homicide’s Crimson Chariot” (Jerry Carlton)