“The Marvelous Boy.” Cover art for the book of the same name by Peter Corris, published by Fawcett in 1982. Acrylic on board. 533×305 mm; 21×12 inches, on 22 3/4×15-inch board. Signed “Hooks” in lower right image.
3rd (of 42) in the long-running private eye series [owner’s copy]
October 1937 issue
cover art by Malvin Singer
Carroll John Daly, “Anyone’s Corpse” (Race Williams)
T.T. Flynn, “Burning Ice”
Fred MacIsaac, “Fall-Guy” (Rambler Murphy)
John Lawrence, “Escape Mechanism (Marquis of Broadway)
Cornell Woolrich, “Stuck with Murder”
Donald S. Aitken, “Two Heels Too Many” (Det. Pope)
[updated 11/13/25]
cover art by Jerome Rozen
[post updated 1/13/24 – new cover and title page – and again on 4/26/25]
May 1, 1933 issue
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The House of Vanishing Men” (Jerry Prince)
Frederick Nebel, “Dead Man’s Folly” (Cardigan)
George Allan Moffatt, “The Crimson Heart Murders” (Jim Finn)
Westmoreland Gray, “The Cowled Horror” (Colin Windsor)
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1971 MGM one sheet, 27×41″
March 1, 1933 issue
cover art by William Reusswig
T.T. Flynn, “The Black Phantom” (Det. Dan O’Shea)
Frederick Nebel, “Doorway to Danger” (Cardigan)
John Lawrence, “The Corpse in Cage Two” (Sam Beckett)
MacKinlay Kantor, “The Shadow Point”
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cover art by Fred Craft
~ Jack Bertin, “Rider in the Night”, last of 5 with Chip Huard, last of 6 stories in BM
~ George Harmon Coxe, “Earned Reward”, 10th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 10th of 31 stories in BM
~ James Duncan, “Crook Bait”, 2nd of 3 with ‘fat man’/investigator Ivor Small
~ Frederick L. Nebel, “Ghost of a Chance”, last of 15 stories with ‘tough dick Donahue of Interstate’, reprinted in Tough as Nails (2012, Altus), 58 of 67 stories in BM
~ Theodore A. Tinsley, “Death By Arrangement”, “Max Ward, ‘the famous little Broadway ticket broker’, erroneously titled ‘Death by Appointment’ on table of contents”, only non-Jerry Tracy story, 10th of 26 stories in BM
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February 1936 issue
cover art by Tom Lovell
Carroll John Daly, “Corpse & Co.” (Race Williams)
William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Cop” (Needle Mike)
T.T. Flynn, “The Bride of the Beast” (Steve Waring)
Donald S. Aitken, “Postlude to Murder”
Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Flying Coffin” (Kip Lacey of Central Airways)
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cover art by Walter Baumhofer
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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]
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