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September 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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B.B. Fowler, “The Thing That Darkness Spawned”
Emerson Graves, “Murder for Blood”
Russell Gray, “School for Corpses” (Ben Bryn)
Stewart Sterling, “Ten Dead Coppers on the Wall”
Harrison Storm, “Death Visits the Fair”
Dane Gregory, “When the Black Dolls Die”
January 1944 issue ~ cover art by Gloria Stoll
cover art by Gloria Stoll
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Stewart Sterling, “The Secret of Madam Zenobia” (Gil Vine)
Noel Loomis, “Dummies Don’t Bleed!“
Bruno Fischer, “The Case of the Handless Corpse”
Francis K. Allan, “Death at the Brimstone Border”
Curtiss T. Gardner, “Satan’s Insidious Chessmen” (Val Vickers)
William R. Cox, “Hell Over Hollywood” (Tom Kincaid)
October 1946 issue ~ cover art by Arnold Kohn
January 1942 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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Stewart Sterling, “Bull-Market for the Dying”
Francis K. Allan, “Am I the Corpse’s Keeper?“
William R. Cox, “Beware the Black Queen” (Tom Kincaid)
Wayne Rogers, “Murder Town”
Dane Gregory, “All at Once—No Wednesday!“
Russell Gray, “Death Hitch-Hikes South”
[cover updated 2/3/26]
July 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
cover art by Rafael DeSoto
Ralph Oppenheim, “Beauty Treatments for Corpses” [Daniel Craig (The Bystander)]
Wyatt Blassingame, “The Doctor Says—Die!” (Joe Gee)
Stewart Sterling, “Bodies to Burn”
Costa Carousso, “Satan’s Broiler”
Russell Gray, “Death’s Gray Sisters”
W. Wayne Robbins, “Asylum for Murder”
September 1940 issue
June 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto
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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