john k. butler – SMB Noir

January 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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cover art by Rudolph Belarski

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May 1936 issue

cover art by John Drew

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~ W.T. Ballard, “Blackmailers Die Hard”, 14th of 27 stories with ‘Bill Lennox, troubleshooter for Consolidated Films’, 19th of 43 stories in BM

~ John K. Butler, “Dark Return”, ‘Mark Dana, ex-G-man’, 3^rd of 11 stories in BM

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Murder Mixup”, 16^th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 18^th of 31 stories in BM, reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Omnibus (1946)

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Beating the Bulls”, 63th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 88th of 99 stories in BM

~ Eric Taylor, “Murder to Music”, ‘Jess Arno, private eye’, 6th of 7 stories in BM

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cover art by Walter Baumhofer

Frederick Nebel, “A Couple of Quick Ones” (Cardigan)

Preston Grady, “Dead Man’s Chest” (Ross Paget)

John K. Butler, “The Corpse Parade” (Rex Lonergran)

John Lawrence, “Dangerous Dollars” (Cass Blue)

Richard Howells Watkins, “Hell’s Half Mile”

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cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Robert Reeves, “Over a Barrel” (Bookie Barnes)

John K. Butler, “The Corpse That Couldn’t Keep Cool” (Steve Midnight)

Norbert Davis, “Have One on the House ” (Bail Bond Dodd)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Pressure Island” (Colonel Kaspir)

Jan Dana, “Corpse of a Different Killer” (Acme Indemnity Op)

May 1938 issue

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cover art by John Fleming Gould

Fred MacIsaac, “Nobody’s Stooge” (Rambler Murphy)

William E. Barrett, “The Devil’s Dice” (Blue Barrel)

John K. Butler, “Why Shoot a Corpse?” (Tricky Enright)

O.B. Myers, “The Golden Gag”

Cornell Woolrich, “Short-Order Kill”

Robert Sidney Bowen, “Five Seconds to Murder”

Lawrence Treat, “The Ghoul with the Green Eyes”