
Tag: skull
June 1, 1940 issue ~ cover art by Graves Gladney

cover art by Graves Gladney
Maxwell Grant (Walter B. Gibson), “The Scent of Death” (Kent Allard/The Shadow)
Leo Stalnaker, “Killer Legs” (Pat Hazeltine)
Alan Hathway, “Wanted for Murder”
better image than previously posted
May 25, 1929 issue
January 1940 issue

January 1940 – sole issue
nice touch of the cover artist making the smoke at the upper right into skull
The Death Dealers x 9

1958 Avon paperback original – cover art by Robert Maguire

1958 Sphere UK paperback original with new title

republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death




undated Lancer reissue from the 70s


March 1936 issue
December 1934 issue
May 1933 issue
September 8, 1934 issue ~ cover art by Lejaren Hiller
February 1, 1923 issue ~ cover art by A. Rose

cover art by A. Rose
~ Eustace Hale Ball, “The Trail of the Scarlet Fox”, part 2 of 6 parts with various subtitles, BM debut, 2nd of 13 appearances in BM
~ Drayton Dunster, “Her Gold and Her Pearls”, 2nd of 9 stories in BM
~ Eliza Mae Harvey, “The Last Snow”, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ W.H. Holmes, “Creeping Death”, ‘A Complete Mystery Novelette’, 1st of 3 stories in BM
~ Francis James, “Sinister Images”, Prentice, Harvard-trained criminologist turned policeman (‘the young Central Office Man’) with Police Chief Shannon, 1st of 4 parts, 3rd of 20 appearances in BM
~ A. Kandel, “Eulogy on a Rare Theme”, ‘brief-brief’, author’s sole appearance in BM
~ Roy L. McCardell, “A Million A Year”, last of 4 parts, 4th of 5 appearances in BM
~ Marr Murray, “Hades and Return”, ‘South Sea story‘, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “After Ten Thousand Miles”, 1st of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series, ‘(see pp. 38-39 for data on CS); no effort has been made to sustain the supposed veracity of series; see also under Joseph Gallomb, Glenn G. Gravatt, & Robert Lee Heiser’, 1st of 49 total articles in BM
~ Horace Winston Stokes, “The Devil’s Hollow”, author’s only appearance in BM
~ Joe Taylor, “The Fixer”, 4th of 12 tales in ‘My Underworld’ series, billed as fiction, 4th of 13th appearances in BM
~ N.H. Wilson, “The Head of Clampini”, ‘Daytime story’, author’s sole appearance in BM
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