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1946 MGM Pictures

N.p. N.p., Circa 1946, vintage reference photograph from the 1946 film noir, Undercurrent

Katharine Hepburn, Robert Mitchum, Robert Taylor (starring)
Vincent Minnelli (director)
Thelma Strabel (novel)
Edward Chodorov (screenwriter)

Based on the story, “You Were There” by Thelma Strabel, serialized in “Woman’s Home Companion” between 1944 and 1945. Vincent Minnelli’s second dramatic film, following “The Clock” (1945).

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.

May 1941 issue

May 1941 issue

[perhaps my favorite cover but do not know the artist – at this point]

better image than previously posted

Frederick C. Davis, “Let the Skeletons Rattle” (Bill Brent)

Sam Merwin Jr., “Caviar for the Killer” (Sgt. Lanning)

Cornell Woolrich, “The Case of the Maladroit Manicurist”

D.L. Champion, “Curtain Call”

O.B. Myers, “Bonds to Burn”

June-July 1949 issue

December 1935 issue ~ cover art by John Drew

December 1935 issue

cover art by John Drew

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~ W.T. Ballard, “After Breakfast”, 2nd of 7 with ‘Red Drake, undercover investigator for the State Racing Commission, 1st-person narrator’, 16th of 43 stories in BM

~ Eugene Cunningham, “Tough People”, 1st of 2 with Det. Sgt. Bob Land, border patrol, 13th of 14 stories in BM

~ Erle Stanley Gardner, “Above the Law”, 62th Ed Jenkins, ‘The Phantom Crook’, 87th of 99 stories in BM

~ Nels Leroy Jorgensen, “The Man from Monaco”, 23rd of 32 with Stuart “Black” Burton, ‘square-shooting gambler from the Southwest, often entangled with the law’, 30th of 39 stories in BM

~ Eric Taylor, “Red Death”, ‘Gene Terry, detective, Metropolitan Agency’, 5th of 7 stories in BM

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Seven Slayers x 5

1946 Chartered digest paperback original

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1950 Avon paperback original, 1st printing, seven stories originally published in Black Mask Magazine

“Black” (May 1932)

“Red 71” (December 1932)

“Parlor Trick” (July 1932)

“One, Two, Three” (May 1933)

“Murder in Blue” (June 1933) – “Murder Done in Blue” in the original magazine

“Pigeon Blood” (November 1933)

“Pineapple” (March 1936)

1987 Black Lizard reissue

cover art by Kirwin

1987 Blood & Guts hardcover reissue

cover art by Joe Servello

February 2012 Centipede hardcover

cover art by Ron Lesser

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