Finding Aid for Black Mask, 1920-1951.
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Manuscripts Division
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Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Black Mask,
Date (inclusive): 1920-1951.
Creator: Joseph T. Shaw, editor
Extent: 16 boxes (8 linear ft.)
Abstract: Black Mask was a detective fiction pulp magazine.
Language: Finding aid is written in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
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are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Black Mask. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Scope and Content
Black Mask was a detective fiction magazine. The Library owns most of the issues from 1920 through 1951, but we do not have the complete
run. Please check the container list for specific issues.
Black Mask Online Resources
Indexing Terms
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Subjects
Black Mask
Container List
Box 1, Vol. 1
April 1920 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
photocopy; no cover
Box 1, Vol. 1
May 1920 : Issue 2
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Cover by William Grotz
Box 1, Vol. 1
July 1920 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
no cover
Box 1, Vol. 1
August 1920 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
no cover
Box 1, Vol. 2
October 1920 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by William Grotz; cover corner missing
Box 1, Vol. 2
December 1920 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by William Grotz
Box 1, Vol. 2
January 1921 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Archie Gunn. Cover damage and missing some of the
edge
Box 1, Vol. 2
March 1921 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. Cover edges torn
Box 1, Vol. 3
April 1921 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by William Grotz. Cover torn and damage.
Box 1, Vol. 3
June 1921 : Issue 3
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No cover and photocopy
Box 1, Vol. 3
July 1921 : Issue 4
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No cover and photocopy
Box 1, Vol. 4
November 1921 : Issue 2
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Cover by unknown
Box 1, Vol. 4
December 1921 : Issue 3
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Cover by unknown.
Box 1, Vol. 4
January 1922 : Issue 4
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Cover by unknown and very fragile.
Box 2, Vol. 4
February 1922 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
cover detach
Box 2, Vol. 5
May 1922 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
missing cover
Box 2, Vol. 5
June 1922 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
missing cover
Box 2, Vol. 5
October 1922 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
2 issues, one cover is faded.
Box 2, Vol. 5
November 1922 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
cover damage.
Box 2, Vol. 5
December 1922 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
cover detached
Box 2, Vol. 5
January 1923 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
missing cover
Box 2, Vol. 5
February 1923 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
cover damage
Box 2, Vol. 5
March 1 1923 : Issue 13
Scope and Content Note
2 copies, 1 original and 1 photocopy
Box 2, Vol. 6
April 15 1923 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
April 15 1923; very fragile
Box 3, Vol. 6
August 15 1923 : Issue 10
Box 3, Vol. 6
September 1 1923 : Issue 11
Box 3, Vol. 6
November 1 1923 : Issue 14
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 3, Vol. 6
October 15 1923 : Issue 14
Box 3, Vol. 6
November 1 1923 : Issue 15
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 3, Vol. 6
November 15 1923 : Issue 16
Box 3, Vol. 6
December 1 1923 : Issue 17
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 3, Vol. 6
December 15 1923 : Issue 18
Box 3, Vol. 6
January 1 1924 : Issue 19
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 3, Vol. 6
January 15 1924 : Issue 20
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 3, Vol. 6
February 1 1924 : Issue 21
Box 3, Vol. 6
February 15 1924 : Issue 22
Box 3, Vol. 6
March 1 1924 : Issue 23
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 4, Vol. 7
September 1924 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 4, Vol. 7
November 1924 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 4, Vol. 7
February 1925 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
photocopy; black buckram cover and volume number is 8 on the
spine.
Box 4, Vol. 8
October 1925 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 4, Vol. 9
March 1926 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
cover torn
Box 4, Vol. 9
August 1926 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
cover fragile
Box 4, Vol. 9
September 1926 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
very fragile
Box 4, Vol. 9
December 1926 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
cover torn and fragile
Box 4, Vol. 9
January 1927 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 5, Vol. 10
May 1927 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 5, Vol. 10
September 1927 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 5, Vol. 11
June 1928 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
photocopy
Box 6, Vol. 11
October 1928 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Black Sheep's Return" by Nels LeRoy
Jorgensen
Box 6, Vol. 11
November 1928 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Black Lives" by Dashiell Hammett and "The Sky Trap"
by Raoul F Whitfield
Box 6, Vol. 11
December 1928 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J.W. Schlaikjer -- "The Next Stiff: an Ed Jenkins Story" by Erle
Stanley Gardner and "Over the River" by Eugene Cunningham
Box 6, Vol. 11
January 1929 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy; Cover by Fred Craft -- "One Crook to Another: an Ed Jenkins
Story" by Erle Stanley Gardner and "Black Honeymoon" by Dashiell
Hammett
Box 6, Vol. 11
February 1929 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy;Cover by J.W. Schlaikjer -- "Laughing Death" by Raoul Whitfield
and "The Taste of Blood" by Tom Curry
Box 6, Vol. 12
March 1929 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft --"Race Williams in tags of Death" by Carroll John
Daly
Box 6, Vol. 12
April 1929 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by H. C. Murphy, Jr.-- "The Six-Gun Showdown" by Edward Parrish
Ware
Box 6, Vol. 12
May 1929 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy; Cover by Fred Craft -- "Graft" by Frederick L.
Nebel
Box 6, Vol. 12
June 1929 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Race Williams Never Bluffs" by Carroll John
Daly
Box 6, Vol. 12
July 1929 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Henry C. Murphy, Jr. -- "Crossed Lead" by Oliver Swett and "All the
Way" by Erle Stanley Gardner
Box 6, Vol. 12
August 1929 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Fly Paper" by Dashiell Hammett and "The Other
Cameo" by Earl & Marion Scott. Dashiell Hammett's Fly Paper is missing.
Box 6, Vol. 12
September 1929 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
2 copies (photocopy) Cover by Henry C. Murphy Jr. -- "The Maltese Falcon" by
Dashiell Hammett
Box 6, Vol. 12
October 1929 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy, cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Hell's Stepsons" by Horace
McCoy
Box 6, Vol. 12
November 1929 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Hell-Smoke" by Frederick
Nebel
Box 6, Vol. 12
December 1929 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Crime Breeders" by Raoul
Whitfield
Box 6, Vol. 12
January 1930 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy; cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Tough Treatment for a Tough Town"
by Frederick Nebel
Box 6, Vol. 12
February 1930 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Farewell Murder, a Complete Novelette" by
Dashiell Hammett
Box 6, Vol. 13
March 1930 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Very brittle; cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Glass Key" by Dashiell
Hammett. Photocopy of "Death in the Pasig" by Ramon Decolta( aka. Raoul Whitfield)pages 49 -
56.
Box 6, Vol. 13
April 1930 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Wise Guy" by Frederick Nebel and Murderers
Night by J. J. des Ormeaux
Box 7, Vol. 13
May 1930 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Street Wof" by Frederick Nebel and "The Crime
Crusher" by Erle Stanley Gardner
Box 7, Vol. 13
June 1930 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Tainted Power: A Story of Race Williams" by
Carroll John Daly
Box 7, Vol. 13
July 1930 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Somewhere in Mexico: A Complete Novelette"
by Horace McCoy and "Strumming Sam Malone" by Cleve Myers
Box 7, Vol. 13
August 1930 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover and first page are detached; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Ten Men from
Chicago" by Frederick Nebel, "Murder by Mistake" by Raoul Whitefield, and "The Gunrunner" by
Horace McCoy
Box 7, Vol. 13
September 1930 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Death in a Bowl" by Raoul
Whitefield
Box 7, Vol. 13
October 1930 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Dark Pack" by Nels Leroy Jorgensen and
"Shooting out of Turn" by Carroll John Daly
Box 7, Vol. 13
November 1930 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Torn cover; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Rough Justice" by Frederick Nebel
and "Lone Hand Tactics" by Nels Leroy Jorgensen
Box 7, Vol. 13
December 1930 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Murder in the Ring" by Raoul
Whitefield and "The Red-Hots" by Frederick Nebel
Box 7, Vol. 13
January 1931 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
very brittle; photocopy of pages 98-100; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Gun
Thunder" by Frederick Nebel, "Trailing Trouble" by Arthur H. Hood, "Hard to Kill" by E. and M.
Scott, "Stolen Justice" by Tom Curry, and "Silence House" by Ramon Decolta
Box 7, Vol. 13
February 1931 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Derelict" by Joseph T.
Shaw
Box 7, Vol. 14
March 1931 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Murder by Mail" By Carroll John
Daly
Box 7, Vol. 14
April 1931 : Issue 2
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Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Breed of Steel" by Jack
Bertin
Box 7, Vol. 14
June 1931 : Issue 4
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Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "'The Flame' and Race Williams" by Carroll John
Daly
Box 7, Vol. 14
July 1931 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover detached; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Tommy Talks" by Erle Stanley
Gardner
Box 7, Vol. 14
August 1931 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Skyline Murders" by Raoul Whitefield, "Spare
the Rod" by Frederick Nebel, and "Race Williams and 'The Flame'" by Carroll John
Daly
Box 7, Vol. 14
September 1931 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "All Star Favorites Number"
Box 7, Vol. 14
October 1931 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Every Move a Picture" by Thomson Burtis,
"Death's Not Enough" by Frederick Nebel, "Steel Arena" by Raoul Whitefield, and "The Hot Squat"
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Box 7, Vol. 14
November 1931 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "It's the Live Ones that Talk" by Frederick
Nebel
Box 7, Vol. 14
December 1931 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Strictly Personal" by Erle Stanley
Gardner
Box 7, Vol. 14
January 1932 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Devil's Protégé" by Jack Bertin, "Table
Stakes" by Stewart Stirling, and "China Man" by Ramon Decolta
Box 7, Vol. 14
February 1932 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
very brittle; Cover by James McArdle -- "The Box in the Hold" by H. Bedford-
Jones; photocopy of "Inside Job" by Raoul Whitefield pages 8-31;
Box 7, Vol. 15
March 1932 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Feet First" by Erle Stanley Gardner and "Fast
One" by Paul Cain
Box 7, Vol. 15
April 1932 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Amateur Murderer" by Carroll John
Daly
Box 8, Vol. 15
May 1932 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Walking Dynamite" by Raoul
Whitefield
Box 8, Vol. 15
June 1932 : Issue 4
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Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Velvet" by Paul Cain
Box 8, Vol. 15
July 1932 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Devil Suit" by J. J. des
Ormeaux
Box 8, Vol. 15
August 1932 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Shake-up" by Frederick
Nebel
Box 8, Vol. 15
September 1932 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Blue Murder" by Raoul Whitefield and "He Could
Take It" by Frederick Nebel
Box 8, Vol. 15
October 1932 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Wings Over Texas" by Horace McCoy and "Party
from Detroit" by Theodore Tinsley
Box 8, Vol. 15
November 1932 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Sinful Cibola" by Jack Bertin and "Dead Men Tell
Tales" by Raoul Whitefield
Box 8, Vol. 15
December 1932 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Red Pavement" by Frederick
Nebel
Box 2, Vol. 16
December 1933 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Dead Men's Shoes" by Erle Stanley Gardner, and
"Blackmailers Don't Shoot" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 36
Box 8, Vol. 15
January 1933 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Close Call" by Erle Stanley Gardner, "Murder by
Request" by Raoul Whitefield, and "The Deal" by John Onslow
Box 8, Vol. 15
February 1933 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "K. O. Comes Clear" by William Rollins, Jr. and
"Doors in the Dark: A Story of Capt. Steve MacBride" by Frederick Nebel
Box 8, Vol. 16
March 1933 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Red Jade" by Erle Stanley
Gardner
Box 8, Vol. 16
April 1933 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Give the Man Rope" by H. H.
Stinson
Box 8, Vol. 16
May 1933 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Tequila" by John Bertin and "The Death Drop" by
Carroll John Daly
Box 8, Vol. 16
June 1933 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Save Your Tears: A Story of 'Tough Dick'
Donahue" by Frederick Nebel
Box 8, Vol. 16
July 1933 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Song and Dance" by Frederick
Nebel
Box 8, Vol. 16
August 1933 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Hospital Case" by Roger Torrey and "Dark Death"
by Raoul Whitefield
Box 8, Vol. 16
September 1933 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "A Woman Can Kill" by Raoul Whitefield and
"Whispering Justice: An Ed Jenkins Story" by Erle Stanley Gardner
Box 8, Vol. 16
October 1933 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Missing cover
Box 8, Vol. 16
November 1933 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Missing cover
Box 8, Vol. 16
December 1933 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Dead Men's Shoes" by Erle Stanley
Gardner
Box 2, Vol. 17
July 1934 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J.W. Schlaikjer -- "If Murder Can Be Funny" by Eugene Cunningham
and "Smart Aleck Kill" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 37
Box 2, Vol. 17
October 1934 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Finger Man" by Raymond Chandler; Folder
38
Box 8, Vol. 16
January 1934 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Private War" by Roger Torrey, "High Murder" by
Raoul Whitfield and "A Guest of the House" by Erle Stanley Gardner
Box 8, Vol. 16
February 1934 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
very brittle; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Ice and Snow" by James Duncan and
"Death on Fifth Avenue" by Raoul Whitefield; photocopy of "Clean Sweep" by Roger Torrey (pages
71-86) and "Red Goose" by Norbert Davis (pages 87-99)
Box 8, Vol. 17
March 1934 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Hunch" by Paul Cain and "Cop Killers" by Erle
Stanley Gardner
Box 9, Vol. 17
April 1934 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "New Twenties" by Erle Stanley Gardner and
"Death by Appointment" by Francis Cockrell
Box 9, Vol. 17
May 1934 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Six Have Died" by Carroll John
Daly
Box 9, Vol. 17
June 1934 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by A. Redmond -- "Take It and Like It" by Frederick
Nebel
Box 9, Vol. 17
July 1934 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Murder Can Be Funny" by Eugene
Cunningham
Box 9, Vol. 17
August 1934 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Murder Book" by Carroll John
Daly
Box 9, Vol. 17
September 1934 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
very brittle; Cover by Fred Craft -- "The Heavenly Rat" by Erle Stanley
Gardner
Box 9, Vol. 17
October 1934 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Finger Man" by Raymond Chandler; photocopy of "Best
Man" by Thomas Walsh (p. 109-123)
Box 9, Vol. 17
November 1934 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Race Williams Crashes Through" by Carroll John Daly,
"Hot Cash" by Erle Stanley Gardner, and " Law and Disorder" by Roger
Torrey
Box 9, Vol. 17
December 1934 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "An Old Spanish Custom" by Eugene Cunningham and
"Murder isn't Legal" by W. T. Ballard
Box 2, Vol. 17
January 1935 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Killer in the Rain" by Raymond Chandler; Folder
39
Box 2, Vol. 18
June 1935 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rudolf Belarski -- "Nevada Gas" by Raymond Chandler; Folder
40
Box 2, Vol. 18
November 1935 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Spanish Blood" by Raymond Chandler and "Winter
Kill" -- by Frederick Nebel; Folder 41
Box 9, Vol. 17
January 1935 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Killer in the Rain" by Raymond
Chandler
Box 9, Vol. 17
February 1935 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "It's a Gag" by Frederick Nebel and "Casy--Detective" by
George Harmon Coxe
Box 9, Vol. 18
March 1935 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Ghost of a Chance" by Frederick
Nebel
Box 9, Vol. 18
April 1935 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Women are Trouble" by George Harmon
Coxe
Box 9, Vol. 18
May 1935 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "A Chance to Cheat" by Erle Stanley Gardner, "That's
Kennedy" by Frederick Nebel, and "Win, Place, Show" by Roger Torrey
Box 9, Vol. 18
June 1935 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Missing cover
Box 9, Vol. 18
July 1935 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rudolph Belarski -- "Murderer's Guest" by Theodore A.
Tinsley
Box 9, Vol. 18
August 1935 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rudolph Belarski -- "Die-Hard" by Frederick Nebel and "Broadway
Babe" by John Lawrence
Box 9, Vol. 18
September 1935 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rudolph Belarski -- "Double for Danger" by Sinclair Gluck; pages 98-
108 are missing
Box 9, Vol. 18
October 1935 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rudolph Belarski -- "Mr. Casey Flashguns Murder" by George
Harmon Coxe and "Crash and Carry" by Erle Stanley Gardner
Box 9, Vol. 18
November 1935 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Winter Kill" by Frederick Nebel and "Spanish Blood" by
Raymond Chandler
Box 10, Vol. 18
December 1935 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Red Death" by Eric Taylor
Box 2, Vol. 18
January 1936 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Guns at Cyrano's" by Raymond Chandler; Folder
42
Box 3, Vol. 19
March 1936 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "The Man Who Liked Dogs" by Raymond Chandler;
Folder 1
Box 3, Vol. 19
June 1936 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
"Goldfish" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 3
Box 3, Vol. 19
September 1936 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "The Curtain" by Raymond Chandler; Folder
4
Box 10, Vol. 18
January 1936 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Guns at Cyrano's" by Raymond
Chandler
Box 10, Vol. 18
February 1936 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "No Hard Feelings" by Frederick
Nebel
Box 10, Vol. 19
March 1936 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- ""The Man Who Liked Dogs" by Raymond Chandler;
photocopy of "The Man Who Liked Dogs (pp. 10-33); original pages missing (pp. 9-
34).
Box 10, Vol. 19
April 1936 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Crack Down" by Frederick Nebel and "Blood on the
Moon" by W. T. Ballard
Box 10, Vol. 19
May 1936 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Murder Mixup" by George Harmon Coxe; photocopy of
"Murder Mixup" (pp. 8-30)
Box 10, Vol. 19
June 1936 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover and body are missing--only Contents page remains. There is a copy of
this issue in the Raymond Chandler Collection, coll. 638, Box 3. f.3
Box 10, Vol. 19
July 1936 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "The Calloused Hand" by Eric Taylor and "Nothing
Personal" by H. H. Stinson
Box 10, Vol. 19
August 1936 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Deep Red" by Frederick Nebel, "Homicide Cue" by
Nels Leroy Jorgensen, and "You Can't Bribe Bullets" by John K. Butler
Box 10, Vol. 19
September 1936 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "The Curtain" by Raymond
Chandler
Box 10, Vol. 19
October 1936 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Jail Bait" by Roger Torrey and "No Rest for Soldiers"
by John K. Butler
Box 10, Vol. 19
November 1936 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Double or Nothing" by George Harmon Coxe and "A
Guy Has a Thousand Dollars" by H. H. Stinson; Back cover is missing.
Box 10, Vol. 19
December 1936 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Angelfish" by Lester Dent
Box 3, Vol. 19
January 1937 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas -- "Bulldog" by Max Brand and "Try the Girl" by
Raymond Chandler; Folder 5
Box 10, Vol. 19
January 1937 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas -- "Bulldog" by Max Brand
Box 10, Vol. 19
February 1937 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by John Drew -- "Fish to Fry" by Baynard H. Kendrick; Magazine is very
brittle.
Box 10, Vol. 20
March 1937 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Harry Stoner
Box 10, Vol. 20
April 1937 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Stockton Mulford -- "Manhatten Whirligig" by Theodore
Tinsley
Box 10, Vol. 20
May 1937 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas
Box 10, Vol. 20
June 1937 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes; Back cover is missing.
Box 10, Vol. 20
July 1937 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas -- "Flight at Sunrise" by Dwight V.
Babcock
Box 10, Vol. 20
August 1937 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas -- "Murder is News" by Theodore
Tinsley
Box 11, Vol. 20
September 1937 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas
Box 11, Vol. 20
October 1937 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
Box 11, Vol. 20
November 1937 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Stockton Mulford
Box 11, Vol. 20
December 1937 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes -- "Club Fighter" by John
Lawrence
Box 11, Vol. 20
January 1938 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
Box 11, Vol. 20
February 1938 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
Box 11, Vol. 21
March 1938 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
Box 11, Vol. 21
April 1938 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by James Lunnon
Box 11, Vol. 21
May 1938 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
Box 11, Vol. 21
June 1938 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by James Lunnon; Back cover is missing.
Box 11, Vol. 21
August 1938 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Don Creigh; No back cover
Box 11, Vol. 21
September 1938 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by James Lunnon
Box 11, Vol. 21
October 1938 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes
Box 11, Vol. 21
November 1938 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by James Lunnon
Box 11, Vol. 21
December 1938 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by James Lunnon
Box 11, Vol. 21
January 1939 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by James Lunnon
Box 11, Vol. 21
February 1939 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by James Lunnon
Box 11, Vol. 21
March 1939 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
Box 11, Vol. 22
April 1939 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
Box 11, Vol. 22
May 1939 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes
Box 11, Vol. 22
June 1939 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
Box 12, Vol. 22
July 1939 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes
Box 12, Vol. 22
August 1939 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
Box 12, Vol. 22
September 1939 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes
Box 12, Vol. 22
October 1939 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
Box 12, Vol. 22
November 1939 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes
Box 12, Vol. 22
December 1939 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
Box 12, Vol. 22
January 1940 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes
Box 12, Vol. 22
February 1940 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes
Box 12, Vol. 22
March 1940 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
Box 12, Vol. 23
April 1940 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by J. George Janes
Box 12, Vol. 23
June 1940 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Clamp Down" by H. H. Stinson
Box 12, Vol. 23
July 1940 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Someday I'll Kill You" by Edward S.
Williams
Box 12, Vol. 23
August 1940 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder--For No Reason" by Roger Torrey and "Ten
Carats of Lead" by Stewart Sterling
Box 12, Vol. 23
September 1940 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Dog Eat Dog" by Robert Reeves and "Pictures for
Murder" by W. T. Ballard
Box 12, Vol. 23
October 1940 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "C-JAG" by Cornell Woolrich and "Money To Burn"
by D. L. Champion
Box 12, Vol. 23
November 1940 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "No Sap for Murder" by Carroll John Daly, "Rob and
Kill" by Dale Clark, and "You'll Die Laughing" by Norbert Davis
Box 12, Vol. 23
December 1940 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Jade Sanctuary" by Earle Stanley Gardner and
"Coat of Many Killers" by Stewart Sterling; No back cover.
Box 12, Vol. 23
January 1941 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Five Minutes for Murder" by Carroll John Daly and
"Bomb Heat" by Peter Paige
Box 12, Vol. 23
February 1941 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Picture Killer" by John Lawrence, "No Gashes
Were Deep" by Roger Torrey and "Skin Game" by Dale Clark
Box 13, Vol. 23
March 1941 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "The Flying Hearse" by Robert Reeves and "The
Platinum Pig" by Stewart Sterling
Box 13, Vol. 23
April 1941 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Dance Macabre" by Robert Reeves, "Vacation with
Pay" by D.L. Champion and "Murder Done in Gold" by John Lawrence
Box 13, Vol. 24
May 1941 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Once Around the Clock" by George Harmon
Coxe
Box 13, Vol. 24
June 1941 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "The Cat with a Headache" by Robert Reeves, "Over
My Dead Body" by Stewart Sterling and "Split Fee" by D. L. Champion; negative
available
Box 13, Vol. 24
July 1941 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Calling All Hearses" by H. H. Stinson, "Nobody
Loves Cops" by Cleve F. Adams, and "Not in the Script" by W. T. Ballard
Box 13, Vol. 24
August 1941 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Death Has My Number" by John K. Butler, "Five
Who Killed" by Dale Clark, and "The Sunday That Came on Thursday" by C. P. Donnel,
Jr.
Box 13, Vol. 24
September 1941 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Milton Luros -- "Iron Cure" by John Lawrence and "Climb Back in
Your Coffin" by H. H. Stinson
Box 13, Vol. 24
October 1941 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Milton Luros -- "Pick Up the Marbles" by D. L. Champion and "San
Quentin Quail" by Dale Clark
Box 13, Vol. 24
November 1941 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Don't Bury Me At All" by Stewart Sterling and
"Murder is a Swell Idea" by W. T. Ballard
Box 13, Vol. 24
December 1941 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Rain Check" by Erle Stanley
Gardner
Box 13, Vol. 24
January 1942 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Milton Luros -- "Bail Bait" by Robert Reeves and "What's Money" by
D. L. Champion
Box 13, Vol. 24
February 1942 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder, Maestro, Please!" By John Lawrence and
"And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them" by C. G. Tahney
Box 13, Vol. 24
March 1942 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Kindly Omit Flowers" by Stewart Sterling and
"Murder Pays 7 to 1" by D. L. Champion
Box 13, Vol. 24
April 1942 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Two Dead Hands" by Erle Stanley
Gardner
Box 13, Vol. 25
May 1942 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
no cover
Box 13, Vol. 25
June 1942 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder in the Red" by George Harmon Coxe and
"The Dancing Rats" by Richard Sale
Box 13, Vol. 25
July 1942 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Blow the Man Down" by Stewart Sterling and
"Three Kills for One" by Cornell Woolrich; No back cover
Box 13, Vol. 25
August 1942 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Killer, Can You Spare a Dime?" by D. L. Champion
and "Dead Ahead Lies Yesterday" by C. P. Donnel, Jr.
Box 13, Vol. 25
September 1942 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Donovan's Brain" by Curt
Siodmak
Box 13, Vol. 25
October 1942 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder by the Ears" by D. L. Champion and "Blood
on the Book" by C. P. Donnel, Jr.
Box 14, Vol. 25
November 1942 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Now I Slay Me--" by Dale Clark and "A Taste for
Murder" by Robert Reeves
Box 14, Vol. 25
December 1942 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder Lays the Keel" by Hugh Pentecost and
"Bullets, Back to Back" by Stewart Sterling
Box 14, Vol. 25
January 1943 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Why Meddle with Murder?" by Merle Constiner and
"Blood on the Lens" by George Harmon Coxe
Box 14, Vol. 25
February 1943 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Come Out of the Grave!" by D. L. Champion and
"Slay as You Go" by Dale Clark
Box 14, Vol. 25
March 1943 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "The Incredible Mister Smith" by Erle Stanley
Gardner and "Coffin # 3" by Philip Ketchum
Box 14, Vol. 25
May 1943 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Mark Hoy's Death Stick" by Walter C. Brown and
"Save a Grave for Me" by Frederick C. Davis
Box 14, Vol. 26
July 1943 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Dead as a Duck" by Stewart Sterling and "Danger--
Mind at Work!" by C. P. Donnel, Jr.
Box 14, Vol. 26
September 1943 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto
Box 14, Vol. 26
November 1943 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Kill One, Skip One" by Merle Constiner and "So
Red the Ruby" by C. P. Donnel, Jr.
Box 14, Vol. 26
January 1944 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "A Brain for Sale" by C. G. Tahney and "Murder O'
Mine" by Dale Clark
Box 14, Vol. 26
March 1944 : Issue 5
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder Goes to Market" by Leslie
Charters
Box 14, Vol. 26
May 1944 : Issue 6
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "The Corpse Pays Cash" by D. L. Champion and
"The Hound with the Golden Eye" by Merle Constiner
Box 14, Vol. 26
July 1944 : Issue 7
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder Theme" by Carroll John
Daly
Box 14, Vol. 26
September 1944 : Issue 8
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Cash as Cash Can" by D. L. Champion and
"Without Benefit of Camera" by K. M. Knight
Box 14, Vol. 26
November 1944 : Issue 9
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder A. W. O. L." by Robert
Reeves
Box 14, Vol. 26
January 1945 : Issue 10
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "That's Murder for You!" by Dale Clark and "Leave
Your Killing Card" by Julius Long
Box 14, Vol. 26
March 1945 : Issue 11
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "Murder had a Little Lamb" by Dale
Clark
Box 14, Vol. 26
May 1945 : Issue 12
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "A Noose for Little Nemo" by H. H. Stinson and "The
Creeps" by G. T. Fleming-Roberts
Box 14, Vol. 27
July 1945 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Spend, Killer, Spend!" by D. L.
Champion
Box 14, Vol. 27
September 1945 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "Alcoholics Calamitous" by Robert Reeves and "Dead
Man's Diary" by Brett Halliday
Box 14, Vol. 27
November 1945 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "I'll Be Slaying You" by E. Hoffmann Price and
"Your Corpses are Showing" by H. H. Stinson
Box 14, Vol. 27
January 1946 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "There's Dough in Murder" by C. G. Tahney and "I Ain't
Got No Body" by Dale Clark
Box 14, Vol. 28
February 1946 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "Deadline for Death" by Thomson
Burtis
Box 14, Vol. 28
March 1946 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "You're the Crime in My Coffin" by H. H.
Stinson
Box 15, Vol. 28
May 1946 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder by the Carton" by Julius
Long
Box 15, Vol. 28
July 1946 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Two-Death Parlay" by D. L.
Champion
Box 15, Vol. 29
September 1946 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Hot-House Homicide" by William Campbell
Gault
Box 15, Vol. 29
November 1946 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Infernal Revenue" by D. L. Champion and "The
Brooklyn Eye" by C. M. Kornbluth
Box 15, Vol. 29
January 1947 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "The Cold, Cold Ground" by William Campbell
Gault
Box 15, Vol. 29
March 1947 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Albert Drake -- "Dead on Arrival" by Merle
Constiner
Box 15, Vol. 30
May 1947 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Too Mean to Die" by D. L.
Champion
Box 15, Vol. 30
July 1947 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Malvin Singer -- "The Constant Shadow" by William Campbell
Gault
Box 15, Vol. 30
September 1947 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Murder Makes the Cock Crow" by Fergus
Truslow
Box 15, Vol. 30
November 1947 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "The Case of the Sleeping Beauty" by William
Campbell Gault
Box 15, Vol. 31
January 1948 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Red Christmas" by George F.
Kull
Box 15, Vol. 31
March 1948 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Hanging is Too Good" by Robert
Martin
Box 15, Vol. 31
May 1948 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "You'll Never Die Rich" by Curtis
Cluff
Box 15, Vol. 31
July 1948 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Leave Killing to the Cops" by Curtis
Cluff
Box 15, Vol. 32
September 1948 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Murder is a Pleasure" by H. H.
Stinson
Box 15, Vol. 32
November 1948 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Overdose of Lead" by Curtis
Cluff
Box 15, Vol. 32
January 1949 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Trouble on Circuit 13" by Robert J.
McCain
Box 15, Vol. 32
March 1949 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Flaming Angel" by Frederick C. Davis and "Let's All Swing
Together" by Robert Martin
Box 15, Vol. 33
May 1949 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Pardon My Poison Platters" by Fergus Truslow and
"Murder in One Syllable" by John D. MacDonald
Box 15, Vol. 33
July 1949 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Richest Man in the Graveyard" by Robert Martin and "Big
Shots Die Young" by Richard Deming
Box 15, Vol. 33
September 1949 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Man's Best Friend" by Robert Turner
Box 15, Vol. 33
November 1949 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "The 7th Pallbearer" by Robert C.
Dennis
Box 16, Vol. 34
January 1950 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Dirge in Bolero Time" by Robert
Martin
Box 16, Vol. 34
May 1950 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Glitter Street Nightmare" by Robert C.
Dennis
Box 16, Vol. 34
July 1950 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Lost in the Shrouds" by Robert Martin and "Jukebox
Jungle" by John D. MacDonald
Box 16, Vol. 35
November 1950 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Five O'Clock Shroud" by Richard Deming" and "Hell is
What You Make It" by Robert Turner
Box 16, Vol. 35
January 1951 : Issue 3
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown.
Box 16, Vol. 35
March 1951 : Issue 4
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "For Better or for Death"
Box 16, Vol. 36
May 1951 : Issue 1
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "Murder in the Ring" by Raoul
Whitfield
Box 16, Vol. 36
July 1951 : Issue 2
Scope and Content Note
Cover by unknown. "The Paper Doll" by G. T. Fleming-
Roberts
