The Neon Jungle x 4 + 1

1953 Gold Medal paperback original

1958 Gold Medal reissue – cover art attributed to James Meese

1960 Gold Medal reissue

1960 Digit UK paperback – not the MacDonald but same art

`1981 Fawcett Gold Medal reissue

May 1949 issue

May 1949 issue

better image than previously posted

Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill” (Cash Wale)

Theodore Sturgeon, “Die, Maestro, Die!”

Carroll John Daly, “Half a Corpse” (Race Williams)

Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”

R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”

Robert Carlton, “Sealed with a Kiss” (Mike Brent)

John D. MacDonald, “You’ll Never Escape”

later UK edition, includes five pieces from US May 1949 edition

Peter Paige, “Cash Wale’s Carnival Kill”

Theodore Sturgeon, “Die Maestro, Die!”

Larry J. Marcus, “Dead Man Blues”

R.M.F. Joses, “Bad to the Last Drop”

Ted Palmer, “The June Thrill Docket”

stories by Daly, Carlton and MacDonald omitted

March 1949 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

March 1949 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Mr. Maddox’s Murder Parlay” (Mr. Maddox)

Fenton W. Earnshaw, “Slaughter in a Sarong” (Shamus Larkin)

John D. MacDonald, “I’ll Drown You in My Dreams”

Robert Martin, “Just a Corpse at Twilight”

Shane Darcy, “Dames Like Killing Too”

Harry Mason, “Death for Dessert”