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”
January 1937 – cover art by Rudolph Berlaski
cover art reworked for April 1942
[post updated 6/1/26]
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”
SMB Noir 