July 1938 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

July 1938 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

[updated 5/7/24]

September 1942 issue

September 1942 issue  

cover art by Milton Luros?

Frederick C. Painton, “You’ll Be Dead at Eleven!“

Raoul Schumacher, “Tough Guys Die Laughing”   

Carl Rathjen, “A White Faced Man Will Hang” (Happy “Hurry” Kaine) 

Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Cop in the Steel Coffin”  

T. W. Ford, “Murder for a Maniac” (Damon Spane)    

David Goodis, “A Smile and a Nod” 

April 23, 1938 issue

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Painton, “Midnight Call”

Charles Alexander, “Devil in the Left Barrel”

Roger Torrey, “You Only Hang Once”

Samuel Taylor, “The Girl from Yesterday”

Convict 12627, “They Talk Like This”

Cyril Plunkett, “Dark Blind”

Stookie Allen: Illustrated Crimes

Arden X. Pangborn, “Rules and Regulations”

Dale Clark, “Murder Wholesale”

B.B. Fowler, “Future Indicative”