December 1951 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

December 1951 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

John D. MacDonald, “ The Girl Who Wanted Money”

Hank Napheys, “Slayer, Come Back to Me” (reprint from 1946)

Larry Holden, “The High Cost of Chivalry”

Stewart Sterling, “Dying Room Only” (reprint from 1943)

Philip Weck, “Forgotten Killer”

Donald Barr Chidsey, “Incident at Opunohu”

Philip Ketchum, “The Cop with All the Luck”

Rufus Bakalor, “Hundred Grand Feature”

Robert M. Hodges, “Wellspring of Murder”

December 1941 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

December 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

~ D.L. Champion, “The Brand of Abel”, ‘desert setting’, 3rd of 30 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Jade Sanctuary”, 68th of 73 Ed Jenkins stories, ‘reader points out discrepancy in this story in Feb ’41 issue, p. 29’, 95th of 100 appearances in BM

~ Eaton K. Goldthwaite, “The Veiled Vampire”, ‘Duke Brian & Franny Steinmetz, ‘ex-felons from Philly’, now private dicks, more or less, Brian narrates’, 3rd of 5 stories in BM

~ Harvey Howard, “Red Friday”, see 2/1940 for H.F. Howard: Hagemann says ‘entirely possible HH and HFH one and the same’

~ Jim Kjelgaard, “Backfire”, ‘short-short; wilderness setting’, 3rd of 6 stories in BM

~ Stewart Sterling, “Coat of Many Killers”, 2nd of 9 stories with ‘Special Squad (safe-and-loft)’, 5th of 12 stories under this name in BM [Sterling and Stirling were pen names of Nathaniel Prentice Winchell, 20 total stories in BM]

~ H.H. Stinson, “North of the Border”, 9th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 15th of 27 stories in BM

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Fall 1938 issue ~ cover art by George Gross

Fall 1938 – first of just three issues

cover art by George Gross

better image than previously posted

[cover updated 4/21/26]