
1951 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
1954 Australian edition from Phantom


1951 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art attributed to Barye Phillips
1954 Australian edition from Phantom


better image than previously posted

1949 Hillman reissue – first paperback edition

better image than previously posted

1991 Black Lizard paperback reissue
cover art by Kirwan


[post updated 6/13/25]

September 1940 issue
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
~ Cleve Adams, “That Certain Feeling”, ‘Engelhardt & Dewey, Car 97, LA setting’, 2nd of 6 stories in BM
~ W.T. Ballard, “Pictures for Murder”, 22nd of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 34th of 43 stories in BM
~ William E. Brandon, “Danny, Once the Rat”, ‘police-stoolie & Nazi spies’, 3rd of 7 stories in BM
~ Dale Clark, “Killer in the Wind”, 2nd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 4th of 32 stories in BM
~ John Lawrence, “Death in the Pluperfect”, 1st of 2 stories with ‘Ace McGuire, Broadway squad, 1st-person narrator’, 7th of 14 stories in BM
~ Robert Reeves, “Dog Eat Dog”, Cellini Smith and RR’s debut, 1st of 3 parts that will be published as the novel No Love Lost in 1941, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 1st of 12 appearances in BM
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1951 Gold Medal paperback original
cover art by Don Lupo

cover art by Barye Phillips
better image than previously posted