September 1947 issue ~ cover art by Peter Stevens

September 1947 issue

cover art by Peter Stevens

~ Norman A. Daniels, “My Dying Day”, Rick Trent, ex-PI, ex-con, 1st person narrator, 2nd of 4 stories in BM

~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Don’t Look Behind You”, 4th of 8 stories in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Manhattan Horse Opera”, 1of 6 stories in BM

~ Tom Marvin, “Blood-Red and Beautiful”, 2nd of 3 stories in BM

~ Burt Sims, “To Each His Corpse”, ‘diminutive Clint Morgan, Hollywood eye’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Fergus Truslow, “Murder Makes the Cock Crow”, ‘Malott & McCool, L.A. gamblers’, 4th of 6 stories in BM

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cover art by Rudolph Belarski

May 1948 issue – cover art by Rudolph Belarski

better image than previously posted

Winter 1948 British edition

cover art repurposed for 1949 Popular Library reissue

better image than previously posted

November 1942 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders/Canadian edition April 1943

November 1942

cover art by Norman Saunders – and signed by him as well

better image than previously posted

cover art by John Hilkert for the Canadian April 1943 edition