February 1935 issue ~ cover art by Fred Craft

February 1935 issue

cover art by Fred Craft

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~ Dwight V. Babcock, “Murder After Midnight”, ‘Al, bodyguard, 2nd story in series’, 4th of 21 stories in BM

~ W.T. Ballard, “Confessions Means Death”, 1st of 2 with radio host/”people’s pal” Jimmy DeHaven, 12th of 43 stories in BM

~ Clue Club, “Clue Club Mystery Story Contest”, ‘short-lived contest sponsored by Warner Bros & BM with prizes, etc.; not indexed beyond this issue’

~ George Harmon Coxe, “Casey – Detective”, 8th of 27 with Flashgun Casey, 8th of 31 stories in BM

~ Raymond Jae Moffatt, “Dunnigan of the Morning Call”, ‘cub reporter & cops’, 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ Frederick L. Nebel, “It’s a Gag”, 29th of 37 with Captain Steve MacBride and local reporter Kennedy, reprinted in Too Young to Die: Complete Cases of MacBride & Kennedy, v.3 (Altus, 2013), 57 of 67 stories in BM

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March 1948 issue ~ cover art by Norman Saunders

March 1948 issue

cover art by Norman Saunders

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John D. MacDonald, “With Soul So Dead”

Frederick C. Davis, “Nine Toes Up!”

Frank Huepper, “Plight of the Pallbearer’s Honey” (Merrick)

H.Q. Masur, “Meet Me at the Morgue”

John N. Polito, “Better Off Buries”

Charles Ingerman, “The Photogenic Corpse”

Frank Nash, “Murder Static”

September 1939 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

September 1939 issue

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”