June 1935 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

June 1935 issue

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

better image than previously posted

~ Dwight V. Babcock, ā€œHide-Outā€, ā€˜1st G-Man Chuck Thompson story of 7; CT, Special Agent, FBI, in LA’, 6th of 21 stories in BM

~ W.T. Ballard, ā€œMurder Makes a Differenceā€, 2nd of 2 Jimmy DeHaven stories, 14th of 43 stories in BM

~ Raymond Chandler, ā€œNevada Gasā€, Johnny DeRuse, first book appearance Five Murderers (Avon digest, 2/3/44), first hardcover appearance The Simple Art of Murder (Houghton Mifflin, 1950), then Pickup on Noon Street (Pocket, 1/52), various paperback editions 5th of 11 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, ā€œThirty Tickets to Winā€, ā€˜Flashgun Casey at the race-track’, 11th of 27 Casey, 11th of 31 stories in BM

~ Roger Torrey, ā€œDead Men Can Talkā€, last of 11 Dal Prentice capers, Magna City police dick, ā€˜one tough guy’, 16th of 50 appearances in BM

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September 1935 issue ~ cover art by Rudolph Belarski

September 1935 issue

cover art by Rudolph Belarski

better image than previously posted

~ Dwight V. Babcock, ā€œDeath Goes Freeā€, ā€˜G-man Chuck Thompson’, 2nd of 7 CT stories, 7th of 21 stories in BM

~ Paul Cain, ā€œChinaman’s Chanceā€, Johnny Gay, Hollywood reporter, reprinted in The Complete Slayers (2011 Centipede Press), 14th of 17 stories in BM

~ James Duncan, ā€œRunaround Murderā€, last of 3 with Ivor Small – investigations, ā€œHe was fat without being fat enough to gain a livelihood as a professional fat manā€, 3rd of 10 stories in BM

~ Big announcement that Erle Stanley Gardner & Ed Jenkins return in the next issue

~ Sinclair Gluck, ā€œDouble for Dangerā€, ā€˜Ted Murray, reporter in Hollywood, 1st-person narrator’, only appearance in BM

~ Theodore A. Tinsley, ā€œTicketed for Deathā€, ā€˜13th (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ā€˜mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, reprinted in Murder Maze: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy, vol.2 (Steeger 2022),14th of 26 stories in BM

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September 1935 Canadian edition