March 1933 issue ~ cover art by J.W. Schlaikjer

March 1933 issue

cover art by J. W. Schlaikjer

~ Norbert Davis, “Kansas City Flash”, ‘Mark Hull, ex-stunt man, in Hollywood & L.A; reprinted in The Hard-Boiled Detective (1977)’, 2nd of 13 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Red Jade”, 48th of 73 Ed Jenkins in Chinatown with Soo Hoo Duck, Ngat T’oy; ‘see p.5 for a letter from ESG to JTS’ [Joseph T. Shaw, ed.], 69th of 99 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Rough Reform”, 20th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Too Young to Die: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy, v.3 (Altus, 2013), 45 of 67 stories in BM

~ Norvell Page, “The Confessional”, ‘2nd of 3 Jules Tremaine stories; Manhattan and Little Italy; (ed. note) a projected & potentially important series that never developed’ [Hagemann doesn’t explain his editor’s note], only these 3 stories in BM. Reprinted in Black Harvest: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jules Tremaine (Steeger Books, 2021).

~ William Rollins, Jr., “K.O. Carries On”, 2nd of 4 stories with ‘Kenneth Osborne from ‘No’th Cah’lina’; 1st person narrator’, 19th of 23 stories in BM

~ Theodore A. Tinsley “Help Wanted”, ‘6th (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’, 6th of 26 stories in BM. Reprinted in South Wind: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Jerry Tracy (Steeger Books, 2021).

~ Roger Torrey, “A Night in Menlo”, ‘Western; Deputy Marshall Henry Corbin in town of Menlo’, 2nd of 50 appearances in BM

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October 1933 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

October 1933

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

Norvell W. Page, “The Dance of the Skeletons”
John H. Knox, “The Monster in the Dark”
Hugh B. Cave, “The Graveless Dead”
Robert C. Blackmon, “Gate of the Two Coffins”
Franklin H. Martin, Snake-Man
Edgar Wallace, “The Murderer of Many Names” [Henry Arthur Milton (The Ringer)], Again the Ringer, Hodder 1929

November 1938 issue

November 1938 issue

cover art by John Drew? David Berger?

Ward Hawkins, “Shadow of the Corpse-Maker”

Loring Dowst, “Murder Comes to Breakfast”  (Pendexter Riddle/The Human Question Mark)

Norvell W. Page, “Bringer of Fiery Death”

Paul Ernst, “Madam Bluebeard’s Home”

Nat Schachner, “Street of Creeping Terror’ 

Henry Treat Sperry, “Brotherhood of Destruction?

better image than previously posted

[updated 11/17/25]

April 1940 issue ~ cover art by John Howitt

April 1940

cover art by John Howitt

second of only two issues published

cover repurposed from October 1935 Horror Stories

September 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

September 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

better image than previously posted

Carroll John Daly, “Some Die Hard” (Race Williams)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Crimson Jade”

O.B. Myers, “The White Mask”

Norvell W. Page, “Satan’s Sideshow”

Cornell Woolrich, “The Corpse and the Kid”

[updated 11/15/25]