April 1943 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

April 1943 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

better image than previously posted

T.T. Flynn, “A Horse of Another Killer, (Mr. Maddox)

C.P. Donnel, Jr., “Fingers of Ice” (Colonel Kaspir)

Norbert Davis, “Too Many Have Died” (Peter Tracy)

William Brandon, “Quiet Street”

Mark Lish, “Ashes in the Valley”

November 1942 issue

November 1942  issue

better image than previously posted

The Editor, “The Coroner Takes Over”

Day Keene, “A Hearse of Another Color” [Silent Smith (The Silver Fox)]

Felix Graham, “Heil, Werewolf!“

William R. Cox, “Spades for the Dead”  (Tom Kincaid)

Fredric Brown, “Satan One-and-a-Half”

William Brandon, “Nightmare House”

Russell Gray, “The Caricature Murders”

January 1977 Vintage paperback original, 1st printing

January 1977 Vintage paperback original, 1st printing

edited and with an introduction by Herbert Ruhm

Carroll John Daly, “The False Burton Combs” (Dec, 1922)

Peter Collinson, “The Road Home” (Dashiell Hammettt, Dec, 1922)

Dashiell Hammett, “The Gutting of Couffignal” (Dec, 1925)

Norbert Davis, “Kansas City Flash” (Mar, 1933)

Frederick Nebel, “Take It and Like It” (June, 1934)

Raymond Chandler, “Goldfish” (June, 1936)

Lester Dent, “Angelfish” (Dec, 1936)

Erle Stanley Gardner, “Leg Man” (Feb, 1938)

George Harmon Coxe, “Once Around the Clock” (May, 1941)

Merle Constiner, “The Turkey Buzzard Blues” (July, 1943)

William Brandon, “It’s So Peaceful in the Country” (Nov, 1943)

Curt Hamlin, “Killer Come Home” (his only Black Mask story, July, 1948)

Paul W. Fairman, “Big-Time Operator” (his only Black Mask story, July, 1948)

Bruno Fischer, “Five O’Clock Menace” (May, 1949)

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