Seven Slayers x 5

1946 Chartered digest paperback original

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1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine

Black” (May 1932)

Red 71” (December 1932)

Parlor Trick” (July 1932)

One, Two, Three” (May 1933)

Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine

Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)

Pineapple” (March 1936)

1987 Black Lizard reissue

cover art by Kirwin

1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue

cover art by Joe Servello

February 2012 Centipede hardcover

cover art by Ron Lesser

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September 1945 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

September 1945

cover art by Gloria Stoll

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~ Dale Clark, “Heir in the Air”, 22nd of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 25th of 32 stories in BM

~ Brett Halliday (pseud. of David Dresser), “Dead Man’s Diary”, 2nd of 2 Mike Shayne stories in BM

~ Julius Long, “Over My Dead Body”, 7th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1st -person narrator’, 12th of 23 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “Alcoholics Calamitous”, last of 10 Cellini Smith appearances, last of 12 appearances in BM

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