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

July 1945 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1945 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

D.L. Champion, “Death in the Sun” (Mariano Mercado)

C. William Harrison, “Killing is a Grave Business” (Hannibal Smith)

E. Hoffman Price, “Esprit De Corpse” (Lucky Nolan)

Stanley C. Vickers, “The Dolly Shaft Rebellion” (Jerry Slagle)

Julius Long, “Loaded for Murder” (C.D. Mort)

William R. Cox, “Shame on Malacci!” (Malachi Manatee)

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”

February 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

February 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

Damon Knight, “Slayer’s Solo”

Day Keene, “Doc Egg’s Graveyard Reunion” (Doc Egg)   

Ejler Jacobson, “The Little Red Murder School”

Ken Lewis, “Country Cadaver”

Talmage Powell, “Stay as Dead as You Are”

Ken Kessler: “The Crimson Thread”

Robert Bloch, “The Noose Hangs High”

John Corbett, “Hound of Hell”

Milton T. Land, “Home to the Kill” 

R. Sprague Hall, “The Case of the Walking God”