December 1948 issue
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cover art by Norman Saunders
T.T. Flynn, “Mr Maddox’s Phoney-Finish”
John D. MacDonald, “No Grave Has My Love”
Philip Ketchum, “Meet Miss Murder”
B.J. Benson, “Homicide in a Hurry” (Shamus Dobson)
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “I Take This Doom”
Robert Turner, “How Dead Can You Get”
[Saunders’ artwork and some of the stories used for the August 1950 UK issue of Black Mask]
cover art by Norman Saunders
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Carroll John Daly, “Race Williams Cooks a Goose”
John D. MacDonald, “Target for Tonight”
William P. McGivern, “Hunt Her in Hell”
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “He Woke Up Dying”
Preston Grady, “Killing’s Too Easy”
Charles Larson, “My Crime – Your Punishment”
cover art by Norman Saunders – oil on board, 22 x 15 in.
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Albert Simmons, “Dead Air”
Day Keene, “He Who Dies Last, Dies Hardest” (reprint from 1943)
Raymond Drennen, Jr., “Pennies From Hell”
Rufus Bakalor, “A Hitch in Crime”
Don James, “Babe and the Hoods”
Duane Yarnell, “Death on the Menu” (Patrolman Kelly)
[I wonder which was reversed – the image of the painting or the image for the cover…]
November 1950
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Robert Martin, “Slayers Burn Slow” (Jim Bennett)
Donn Mullally, “A Bullet for Baby”
T.T. Flynn, “Build-Up for Murder”*
Rufus Bakalor, “Homicidal Hobby”
Raymond Drennan, Jr., “Killer’s Luck”
John D. MacDonald, “Tri-Kill Cutie”
*reprint from 1941
SMB Noir 