t.w. ford – SMB Noir

June 1951 issue

cover art by H.W. Scott

cover art by Leo Morey

better image than previously posted

better image than previously posted

[updated with original art 8/8/25]

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

cover art by Alfred G. Skrenda

Hersey swastika: “The Symbol of Good Reading – A Hersey Magazine”

cover art by Norman Saunders

better image than previously posted

[updated 2/26/25 with original art]

[updated 5/6/24]

September 1942 issue

cover art by Milton Luros?

Frederick C. Painton, “You’ll Be Dead at Eleven!“

Raoul Schumacher, “Tough Guys Die Laughing”

Carl Rathjen, “A White Faced Man Will Hang” (Happy “Hurry” Kaine)

Arthur Leo Zagat, “The Cop in the Steel Coffin”

T. W. Ford, “Murder for a Maniac” (Damon Spane)

David Goodis, “A Smile and a Nod”