January 1938 premiere issue ~ cover art by Emery Clarke

January 1938

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[image updated 4/22/24]

cover art by Emery Clarke repurposed from February 1935 issue of Ten Detective Aces

[updated 5/5/25]

March 1937 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

March 1937

cover art by Tom Lovell

Frederick C. Davis, “When the Bat Man Thirsts”

Wyatt Blassingame, “The Art That Is Learned in Hell”

G. T. Fleming-Roberts, “Mistress of the Murder Machine”

William Hines, “Death’s Warm Lips”

Paul Ernst, “The Monster Who Worked in Clay”

Francis James, “The Beauty Shop Horrors”

Roger Howard Norton, “Child’s Garden of Terror”

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February 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Brazen Ghost”

Frederick C. Davis, “Tall, Dark, and Deadly”

Robert Turner, “Murder on My Mitts”

John D. MacDonald, “High Walls of Hate”

Johanas L. Bouma, “Homicidal Harmony”

Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Murchison Got a Gun”

L.S. Goldsmith, “Black Spots of Doom”