June 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

June 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ D.L. Champion, “Split Fee”, 4th of 26 with Sackler, 5th of 30 stories in BM

~ Dale Clark, “Hot Towels”, 5th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 7th of 32 stories in BM

~ C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Death Do Us Part”, 4th of 16 with Colonel Walter (Doc) Rennie, USA Medical Corps psychiatrist, 4th of 20 stories in BM

~ Robert Reeves, “The Cat with a Headache”, 5th of 10 with PI Cellini Smith, reprinted in Dead and Done For: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith (Steeger, 2020), 6th of 12 appearances in BM

~ Stewart Sterling, “Over My Dead Body”, 4th of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (Bomb & Forgery); see p.8 for note by SS on story’, 7th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]

~ Roger Torrey, “Snakes in the Grass”, ‘3rd of Bryant (4 stories), a regular U.S. Army man, who works in a CCC camp; 1st-person narrator’, ‘- in a Southern CCC camp’, 49th of 50 appearances in BM

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November 1941 Canadian issue

reprint of June 1941 US issue

Dewey and Miller

1944 Jefferson House hardcover – see Signet reissue below

1948 Farrar Straus hardcover – cover art by Bill English

3rd with PI Max Thursday

1949 Sampson Low hardcover from the UK – cover art by Tansley

1949 Signet reissue – cover art by James Avani

1950 Signet reissue

1955 reissue

Gouache on board, 17-1/2 x 22 inches (44.5 x 55.9 cm)
Not signed

– white lines show where the original work was re-touched for the new cover –

1957 Phantom edition from Australia

1963 Signet reissue

1993 Perennial reissue

July 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1941 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Norbert Davis, “Watch Me Kill You!” (Max Latin)

James A. Kirch, “The Murder Master”

John K. Butler, “Dead Man’s Alibi” (Steve Midnight)

Cleve F. Adams, “Forty Pains” (O’Melveny and Dugan)

O.B. Myers, “The Wild Man of Wall Street”

April 1933 issue ~ cover art by William Reusswig

April 1933 issue

cover art by William Reusswig

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “Five Doomed Men” (Larry Davenport)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Death’s Doorway” (Phil ‘Go Get ‘Em’ Garver)

Frederick Nebel, “Heir to Murder” (Cardigan)

Fred MacIsaac, “Alias Mr. Smith” (Rambler Murphy)