July 1949 issue ~ cover art by Albert Drake

July 1949 issue

cover art by Albert Drake

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Mel Cotton, “No Time to Burn”

Bruce Cassiday, “Hellcat of Homicide Highway”

John D. MacDonald, “A Corpse-Maker Goes Courting”

Peter Paige, “Coffin Cure”

Johanas L. Bouma, “I’ll Be Killing You”

Robert Turner, “Kiss and Kill”

December 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

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]

March 1947 issue ~ cover art by Robert Stanley

March 1947 issue

cover art by Robert Stanley

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Francis K. Allan, “What Makes Sammy Kill?”

Thorne Lee, “It’s in the Bag!”

Jimmy Nichols, “Cops Are Born”

Robert Turner, “Party to Murder!”

John D. FitzGerald, “Too Mean to Live!”

Arthur Leo Zagat,“Death-Dance of the Broken Dolls”

Talmage Powell, “Blood in Your Eye!”

Cyril Plunkett, “Deadly Is My Sleep”

Wilbur S. Peacock, “Copperhead”

Dale Clark, “Corpses, Incorporated” (Socrates Bean)

Jhan Robbins, “The Waxwork Wake”