April 15, 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

April 15, 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick Nebel, “Hell Couldn’t Stop Him” (Cardigan)

Leslie T. White, “Crook for a Night” (Toby Laird)

William Edward Hayes, “The Corpse on the Semaphore” (Dan Howell)

T. T. Flynn, “The Dragons of Change Ch’ien” (Val Easton)

O.B. Myers, “Grave Mates” (Jimmy McRay)

August 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

August 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Chinamen” (Needle Mike)

Leslie T. White, “The Bullet That Took Its Time” (Duke Martindel)

John K. Butler, “Parole for the Dead” (Tricky Enright)

Fred MacIsaac, “Blond Cargo” (Rambler Murphy)

Denslow M. Dade, “The Came On”

November 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

November 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Carroll John Daly, “Dead Hands Reaching” (Race Williams)

John K. Butler, “The Stairway to Hell” (Rex Lonergan)

Oscar Schisgall, “Island of Fear”

Norbert Davis, “The Devil’s Scalpel” (Bill Ray)

Wyatt Blassingame, “3+1 = Murder”

October 1935 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

October 1935 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Hugh B. Cave, “Mistress of the Dead”

Arthur J. Burks, “Death-Nymph”

George Alden Edson, “Terror Rides the Subway”

Chandler H. Whipple, “The Last Harcourt”

Paul Ernst, “The Devil’s Doorstep”

Arthur Leo Zagat, “Death Lands a Cargo”

Richard G. Huzarski, “From What Black Pit—”  (as by Richard C. Huzarski)

Maitland Scott, “True Strange Experiences: The Well of Horror”

February 1936 issue ~ cover art by Tom Lovell

February 1936 issue

cover by Tom Lovell

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Hugh B. Cave, “Death Holds for Ransom

Dale Clark, “My Friend—The Corpse”

Paul Ernst, “Embrace of the Fire God”

Roger Howard Norton, “The Woman Hell Gave Me”

Wyatt Blassingame, “Slaves of the Tomb Maidens”

Ben Judson, “The Beast in Her Bed!“

Emerson Graves, “Pale Daughters of Death”

June 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

June 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Frederick Nebel, “Murder by Mail” (Cardigan)

Hugh B. Cave, “The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” (Martin Lane)

William E. Barrett, “The Tattooed Circle” (Needle Mike)

Frederick C. Davis, “The Case of the Queen’s Headsman” (Carter Cole)

Robert Sidney Bowen, “The Corpse in Seat 2” (Kip Lacey)

“Murder by Mail” was reprinted in Hard-Boiled Dames (St. Martin’s, 1986) and The Complete Cases of Cardigan (Altus Press, 2011)

“The Lady Who Left Her Coffin” reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action (Carroll & Graff, 2001)

May 1936 issue ~ cover art by Walter Baumhofer

May 1936 issue

cover art by Walter Baumhofer

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Leslie T. White, “Eyewitness” (Tod Naughton, arson dick)

Donald G. Cooley, “Brood of the Green Bowman”

John Lawrence, “Murder by Magic” (Drago of Headquarters Squad)

John K. Butler, “Blood on the Buddha” (Rex Lonergan)