
cover art by Norman Saunders
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cover art by H.C. Murphy
~ Katherine Brocklebank, “Silver Horseshoe”, last of 4 with ‘Tex of Border Service in Tia Juana; Tex is a woman!’, reprinted in White Talons: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Tex of the Border Service (Steeger, 2023), last of 7 stories in BM
~ Tom Curry, “The Water Rats”, 19th of 23 with Macnamara (Mac), NYPD 1st grade dick, 33rd of 39 stories in BM
~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “All the Way”, 7th of 10 Bob Larkin stories, 42nd of 99 stories in BM
~ Heydorn Schleh, “The Whitest Man That Ever Lived”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Earl and Marion Scott, “Regards to the Chief”, 2nd of 6 stories with ‘Cameo Kirby, reformed jewel thief’, 7th of 17 stories in BM as a couple
~ Oliver Swett, “Crossed Lead”, ‘Western’, sole appearance in BM
~ Raoul [Fauconnier] Whitfield, “The Carnival Kill”, Gary Greer, 6th (of 9) in the Laughing Dead series, ‘presented as separate stories rather than conventional serial; pub. As Five (1931) under the pseudonym of Temple Field’, 32nd of 68 stories in BM [see also 24 stories as Ramon Decolta]. Reprinted in Laughing Death (Steeger Books, 2021).
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July 1949 issue
cover art by Albert Drake
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Mel Cotton, “No Time to Burn”
Bruce Cassiday, “Hellcat of Homicide Highway”
John D. MacDonald, “A Corpse-Maker Goes Courting”
Peter Paige, “Coffin Cure”
Johanas L. Bouma, “I’ll Be Killing You”
Robert Turner, “Kiss and Kill”