
1971 MGM one sheet, 27×41″

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]

May 1948 issue
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Frederick C. Davis, “Dicks Die Hard”
H.H. Stinson, “That’s Murder for You” (PI Mack Spain)
Robert Martin, “No Haven for Homicide”
Richard Dermody, “Doc Pierce’s Corny Caper” (Doc Pierce)
Don James, “Hearse for a Homicide”
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Reluctant Corpse”

[updated 5/12/25]

1952 Morrow hardcover
1954 Dell reissue
13th with private eyes Bertha Cool and Donald Lam
cover art by Griffith Foxley
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gouache on illustration board, 11″ by 17″
1963 Avon paperback original
