April 1932 issue ~ 6th issue
cover art by William Reusswig
J. Allan Dunn, “The Fire Fiend”
Carroll John Daly, “The Call to Kill” (Vee Brown)
Frederick Nebel, “Murder on the Loose” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Scarlet Comet” (Paul Bryant, PI)
Norman H. White, Jr., “Buoy of Doom” (Benton Ellwell)
profile and photo of Lawrence on pg. 122
profile and photo of White on pg. 123
cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer
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~ Galen C. Colin, “Wrong Font Brands”, ‘Pica Slim, tramp printer’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Carroll John Daly, “Murder by Mail”, 38th of 53 with Race Williams, ‘vs. Bull Lowery’, 50th of 71 appearances in BM
~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Man in White”, 2nd of 6 parts in the ‘Rainbow Diamonds’ sequence that take Jo Gar from Manila to San Francisco, 11th of 24 Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Grimes Hill (pseud. of Frederick Lewis Nebel), “The Kill”, 1st of 2 stories in this issue by the author, 1st of 2 stories under this name in BM, reprinted in Street Wolf (Altus Press, 2014),
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Junk”, 13th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy ‘fighting river pirates’, reprinted in Winter Kill: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kenney, v.2 (Altus, 2013), 30 of 67 Nebel stories in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “Who Knows?”, 5th of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Joseph T. Shaw, “Derelict”, 2nd of 4-part serialization of his 1930 novel, ‘murder, romance and disaster on a deserted ocean liner’, 3rd of 9 fiction pieces in BM
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~ Ramon Decolta (Raoul Whitfield), “The Caleso Murders”, 1st story by RFW in this issue, 8th of 24 Jo Gar stories in BM, reprinted in West of Guam: The Complete Cases of Jo Bar (Altus Press, 2013)
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Racketeers’ Reef”, last of 3 with Rio Kennedy of the Customs Service in Santo Domingo, 20th of 39 stories in BM
~ Horace McCoy, “The Mailed Fist”, 8th of 14 Frost stories ’Capt. Jerry Frost, Texas (Air) Ranger & Stepsons have a go at ‘The Big Shot’, 9th of 17 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “The Red-Hots”, 2nd of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 27 of 67 stories in BM
~ James P. Olsen, “Honor of the Show”, ‘deformed sideshow owner, Price Eco, and murder’, 3rd of 6 Western stories in BM
~ Bertrand W(illiam) Sinclair, “Rope’s End”, ‘Western; Bill Stokes’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “Murder in the Ring”, ‘boxing, gamblers, racketeers, with Primo-Carnera-like boxer’; reprinted in May ’51 issue, 2nd story in this issue, 44th of 67 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “Torture Tavern” (Val Easton vs. Black Doctor)
Ralph Oppenheim, “The Death Lady” (Glen Kelsey, PI)
Frederick Nebel, “Scrambled Murder” (Cardigan)
Edward Parrish Ware, “The Gallows Cure”
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Madeleine Sharps Buchanan, “The White Diver of Death”
Frederick Nebel, “Six Diamonds and a Dick” (Cardigan)
Oscar Schisgall, “Once a Crook” (Dave Loree)
Robert H. Rohde, “The Chamber of Doom”
Carroll John Daly, “The Crime Machine” (Vee Brown)
Norman H. White, Jr., “Hot Ice” (Jack Williams)
profile of Buchanan appeared on pgs 123-24
April 1933 issue
cover art by William Reusswig
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T.T. Flynn, “Five Doomed Men” (Larry Davenport)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Death’s Doorway” (Phil ‘Go Get ‘Em’ Garver)
Frederick Nebel, “Heir to Murder” (Cardigan)
Fred MacIsaac, “Alias Mr. Smith” (Rambler Murphy)
cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer
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~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Chinatown Murder”, 49th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘Chinese frequently spoken’, 70th of 99 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Farewell to Crime”, 21st of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Too Young to Die: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy, v.3 (Altus, 2013), 46 of 67 stories in BM
~ Norvell Page, “Black Harvest”, ‘last of 3 Jules Tremaine stories; Manhattan and Little Italy; (ed. note) a projected & potentially important series that never developed’ [Hagemann doesn’t explain his editor’s note], only these 3 stories in BM. Reprinted in Black Harvest: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jules Tremaine (Steeger Books, 2021).
~ William Rollins, Jr., “K.O. and the Killers”, 3rd of 4 stories with ‘Kenneth Osborne from ‘No’th Cah’lina’; 1st person narrator’, 20th of 23 stories in BM
~ H.H. Stinson, “Give the Man Rope”, 1st of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, debut and 1st of 27 stories in BM
~ Roger Torrey, “The Case-Hardened Samaritan”, 2nd of 11 with Dal Prentice, Magna City police dick, ‘one tough guy’, ‘Prentice – “hard when it comes to handling killers”, reprinted in The Case-Hardened Samaritan: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Dal Prentice, Vol. 1, 3rd of 50 appearances in BM
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cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “The Crime Crusher”, 32th Ed Jenkins & his wife Helen Chadwick, 1st of a 3-part story, 49th of 99 stories in BM
~ Dashiell Hammett, “Dagger Point”, Ned Beaumont, 3rd of 4 stories that will go together to make up The Glass Key (published 1931), 43rd of 45 stories in BM
~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “Slowdown Hands”, 14th of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 18th of 39 stories in BM
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Street Wolf”, ’Napoleon Damiani, gangster’, 23 of 67 stories in BM
~ Reuben Jennings Shay, “Backfire”, 1st of 2 in BM
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cover art by William Reusswig
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Frederick Nebel, “Murder & Co.” (Cardigan)
Frederick C. Davis, “Carrion Cargo” (Eliot Knox)
Erle Stanley Gardner, “Snatch as Snatch Can” (Paul Pry)
Ralph Oppenheim, “Brand of the Beast” (Glen Kelsey, PI)
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