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1955 Bantam reissue

1955 Bantam reissue

better image than previously posted

November 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

November 1950

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

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

February 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

February 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

Robert Martin, “I’ll Be Killing You” (Jim Bennett)

Robert Turner, “Homicidal Hitchhiker”

E.A. Morris, “Fist for a Fighting Fool”

Russell Branch, “If the Frame Fits”

Don James, “Sing a Song of Slaughter” (PI Pete Johns)

Bert Sims,“No Time to Kill” (Hawkshaw Morgan)

Alvin Yudkoff, “You Gotta Die Right”

January 1950 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

January 1950 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

~ D.L. Champion, “Death for a Dollar”, last of 26 Rex Sackler stories, same title as 3/44, also a Sackler, reprinted in Murder Costs Money: The Complete Black Mask Stories of Rex Sackler (Steeger, 2020), last of 30 stories in BM

~ Robert C. Dennis, “Stop, You’re Killing Me!”, ‘Rhodes, shamus’, 6th of 10 stories in BM

~ Bruno Fischer, “The Lady Grooms a Corpse”, last of 5 stories in BM

~ Philip Ketchum, “One Sunk Punk”, last of 3 stories in BM

~ Roy Lopez, “The Murder’s All Mine”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Dirge in Bolero Time”, 4th of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective, 6th of 8 stories in BM

~ Marian O’Hearn, “Swansong for an Ugly Duckling”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Herb Schneiderman, “Homicide – According to Hoyle”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Tedd Thomey, “Come Hell or Hot Water”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

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May 1946 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

May 1946 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

~ Dale Clark, “The Early Corpse Gets the Worm”, 25th of 28 with house dick Mike O’Hanna story, at San Alpa Resort hotel, 28^th of 32 stories in BM

~ Harry Epstein, “The Case of the Mind-Reading Seal”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Julius Long, “Murder By the Carton”, 12th of 17 stories with ’Ben Corbett, D.A.’s chief investigator, 1^st -person narrator’, 17th of 23 stories in BM

~ James R. McKenna, “Caliente”, short-short, horse racing, 1^st person narrator, author’s only appearance in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Rat Race in Foxtown”, ‘Foxtown is 45 miles SW of Cleveland’, 1^st of 8 stories in BM

~ Jim T. Pearce, “Always Leave ‘Em Dying”, author’s sold appearance in BM

~ William Rough, “My Gun Hires Legitimate”, ‘Ben Slabbe, p.i., who has his own agency; 3rd of 5 capers’ in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Unholy Matrimony”, 23rd of 27 stories in BM

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December 1946 UK issue

[US cover updated 1/29/26]

March 1949 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll

March 1949 issue

cover art by Gloria Stoll

~ Frederick C. Davis, “Flaming Angel”, ‘1^st-person narrator; psychopathic murderer’, 13^th of 16 stories in BM

~ Dean Evans, “Frame for a Dame”, 1^st of 3 stories in BM

~ G.T. Fleming-Roberts, “Something Dead Has Been Added”, ‘John Anthony Gwinn, Indianapolis reporter’, 7^th of 8 stories in BM

~ Marvin J. Jones, “Sing a Song of Murder”, ‘Jimmy Bell, cop’, author’s only appearance in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Killing All Men”, 3^rd of 6 stories in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Let’s All Swing Together”, 1^st of 6 with ’debut of Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective’, 3rd of 8 stories in BM

~ Scott O’Hara, “Kiss the Corpse Good-By”, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Edward van der Rhoer, “The High Cost of Dying”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

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[cover updated 1/29/26, original art added 3/1/26]

July 1949 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

July 1949 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

~ Richard Deming, “Big Shots Die Young”, Manville “Manny” Moon, 1^st-person narrator, 4^th of 6 stories in BM

~ Frank Gordon, “Last Kill and Testament”, ‘Alphonse Bertillon’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ W. Lee Herrington, [also published in BM as Alan Farley], “Die, Die Again”, last of 4 stories under this name in BM

~ Edward A. Herron, “Death’s 43 Days”, ‘Yukon short-short’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ John D. MacDonald, “Heritage of Hate”, 5^th of 6 stories in BM

~ Larry J. Marcus, “Through the Murder Glass”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ Robert Martin, “Richest Man in Graveyard”, 3rd of 6 stories with ‘Dr. Clint Colby, medical detective‘, 5th of 8 stories in BM

~ Talmage Powell, “Her Dagger Before Me”, ‘Tampa (Florida) p.i. Lloyd’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), author’s only appearance in BM

~ Harold Preece, “Boulevard Buzzards”, ‘short-short; Paris in 1880’, author’s sole appearance in BM

~ Robert P. Toombs, “These Dead Hands Reaching”, 1^st of 3 stories in BM

[original art added 1/30/26]