July 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1940 issue

T.T. Flynn, “The Bookie and the Blonde” (Mr. Maddox)

Leslie T. White, “One-Way Street”

Jan Dana, “The Murder Was a Pleasure” (Acme Indemnity Op)

John K. Butler, “The Man from Alcatraz” (Steve Midnight)

Hugh B. Cave, “He Didn’t Know Nothin’“ (Officer Coffey)

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December 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

December 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Hugh B. Cave, “Daughters of Dark Desire”

Maitland Scott, “House-Guest from Hell”

Paul Ernst, “They Wear Death’s Face”

Karl Hans Strobl, “Dead Woman’s Lodger”

John H. Knox, “Girl Into Mummy”

Arthur J. Burks, “Death—The Tempter”

Norvell W. Page, “Bodies in Bronze”

George Alden Edson, “Hotel of the Damned”

May 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

May 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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November 1938 issue ~ cover art by James Lunnon

November 1938 issue

cover art by James Lunnon

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~ W.T. Ballard, “Mobster Guns”, 20th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 30th of 43 stories in BM

~ Hugh B. Cave, “Curtain Call”, 4th of 9 stories in BM

~ Eric Howard, “Fifty Grand Frail”, ‘Tim Ryan, private snoop, 1st person narrator’, 5th of 6 stories in BM

~ Edgar Pangborn, “Bullet Song”, ‘Tom Paradine, music critic’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Station K-I-L-L”, ‘23rd (of 25) Jerry Tracy capers, columnist on the (NYC) Planet, ‘mixer with poor and rich, the crooked and the straight, trailer of trouble and happiness’, 24th of 26 stories in BM

~ Donald Wandrei, “Tick, Tock”, ‘time bomb’, 5th of 6 stories in BM

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