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May 1924 issue

May 1924

June 1938 issue

June 1938

September 24, 1938 issue ~ cover art by Emmett Watson

September 24, 1938

cover art by Emmett Watson

August 1940 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

August 1940 issue

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

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D.L. Champion, “There was a Crooked Man – ” (Inspector Allhoff)

Norbert Davis, “This will Kill You!” (Bail-Bond Dodd)

John Lawrence, “The Death of the Party” (Marquis of Broadway)

Merle Constiner, “Strangler’s Kill” (The Dean)

O.B. Myers, “United We Fall”

March 1938 British edition ~ cover art by Raymond S. Pease

March 1938 British edition

cover art by Raymond S. Pease

contents same as US issue:

~ Max Brand, “The Silent Witness”, short-short, 2^nd of 2 BM stories

~ Joseph Csida, “Bank Night Kill”, ‘narrated by a “contest dick”, 1^st of 2 stories in BM

~ Steve Fisher, “You’ll Always Remember Me”, ‘young punk murderer; psychopathic narrator’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps (Vintage, 2007), 4^th of 9 stories in BM

~ Frank Gruber, “Dog Show Murder”, 4th of 10 with ‘Oliver Quade, The Human Encyclopedia’, reprinted in The Hardboiled Dicks (1965), 5th of 14 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Three Apes from the East”, ‘Kerry Thorne, detective in L.A.’, reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010), 8th of 27 stories in BM

US March 1938 issue

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