w.t. ballard – SMB Noir

August 1939 issue ~ cover art by Leo Morey

August 1939

cover art by Leo Morey

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

cover art by Gloria Stoll

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cover art attributed to Ernest Chiriacka

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cover art by Rafael DeSoto

pseudonym of W.T. Ballard, one of the ‘second wave’ of great Black Mask Magazine writers

1st book as MacNeil, and 1st of 7 books with Tony Costaine and Bert McCall published between 1958 and 1966

cover art by Gerry Powell

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cover art by Milton Luros

[updated 5/5/25]

better image than previously posted

cover art by Ernest Chiriacka