Finding Aid for the Black Mask Issues LSC.0000
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Title: Black Mask Issues
Creator:
Shaw, Joseph T. (Joseph Thompson)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0000
Physical Description:
8.0 linear feet
(16 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1920-1951
Abstract: Black Mask was a general detective pulp magazine.
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box 1, volume 1
April 1920 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
photocopy; no cover
box 1, volume 1
May 1920 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by William Grotz
box 1, volume 1
July 1920 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
no cover
box 1, volume 1
August 1920 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
no cover
box 1, volume 2
October 1920 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by William Grotz; cover corner missing
box 1, volume 2
December 1920 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by William Grotz
box 1, volume 2
January 1921 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Archie Gunn. Cover damage and missing some of the edge
box 1, volume 2
March 1921 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. Cover edges torn
box 1, volume 3
April 1921 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by William Grotz. Cover torn and damage.
box 1, volume 3
June 1921 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
No cover and photocopy
box 1, volume 3
July 1921 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
No cover and photocopy
box 1, volume 4
November 1921 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown
box 1, volume 4
December 1921 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown.
box 1, volume 4
January 1922 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown and very fragile.
box 2, volume 4
February 1922 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
cover detach
box 2, volume 5
May 1922 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
missing cover
box 2, volume 5
June 1922 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
missing cover
box 2, volume 5
October 1922 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
2 issues, one cover is faded.
box 2, volume 5
November 1922 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
cover damage.
box 2, volume 5
December 1922 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
cover detached
box 2, volume 5
January 1923 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
missing cover
box 2, volume 5
February 1923 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
cover damage
box 2, volume 5
March 1 1923 : Issue 13
Scope and Contents note
2 copies, 1 original and 1 photocopy
box 2, volume 6
April 15 1923 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
April 15 1923; very fragile
box 3, volume 6
August 15 1923 : Issue 10
box 3, volume 6
September 1 1923 : Issue 11
box 3, volume 6
November 1 1923 : Issue 14
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 3, volume 6
October 15 1923 : Issue 14
box 3, volume 6
November 1 1923 : Issue 15
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 3, volume 6
November 15 1923 : Issue 16
box 3, volume 6
December 1 1923 : Issue 17
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 3, volume 6
December 15 1923 : Issue 18
box 3, volume 6
January 1 1924 : Issue 19
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 3, volume 6
January 15 1924 : Issue 20
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 3, volume 6
February 1 1924 : Issue 21
box 3, volume 6
February 15 1924 : Issue 22
box 3, volume 6
March 1 1924 : Issue 23
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 4, volume 7
September 1924 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 4, volume 7
November 1924 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 4, volume 7
February 1925 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
photocopy; black buckram cover and volume number is 8 on the spine.
box 4, volume 8
October 1925 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 4, volume 9
March 1926 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
cover torn
box 4, volume 9
August 1926 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
cover fragile
box 4, volume 9
September 1926 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
very fragile
box 4, volume 9
December 1926 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
cover torn and fragile
box 4, volume 9
January 1927 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 5, volume 10
May 1927 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 5, volume 10
September 1927 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 5, volume 11
June 1928 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
photocopy
box 6, volume 11
October 1928 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Black Sheep's Return" by Nels LeRoy Jorgensen
box 6, volume 11
November 1928 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Black Lives" by Dashiell Hammett and "The Sky Trap" by Raoul F Whitfield
box 6, volume 11
December 1928 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents 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, volume 11
January 1929 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents 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, volume 11
February 1929 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy;Cover by J.W. Schlaikjer -- "Laughing Death" by Raoul Whitfield and "The Taste of Blood" by Tom Curry
box 6, volume 12
March 1929 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft --"Race Williams in tags of Death" by Carroll John Daly
box 6, volume 12
April 1929 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by H. C. Murphy, Jr.-- "The Six-Gun Showdown" by Edward Parrish Ware
box 6, volume 12
May 1929 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy; Cover by Fred Craft -- "Graft" by Frederick L. Nebel
box 6, volume 12
June 1929 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Race Williams Never Bluffs" by Carroll John Daly
box 6, volume 12
July 1929 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Henry C. Murphy, Jr. -- "Crossed Lead" by Oliver Swett and "All the Way" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 6, volume 12
August 1929 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents 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, volume 12
September 1929 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
2 copies (photocopy) Cover by Henry C. Murphy Jr. -- "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett
box 6, volume 12
October 1929 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy, cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Hell's Stepsons" by Horace McCoy
box 6, volume 12
November 1929 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Hell-Smoke" by Frederick Nebel
box 6, volume 12
December 1929 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Crime Breeders" by Raoul Whitfield
box 6, volume 12
January 1930 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy; cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Tough Treatment for a Tough Town" by Frederick Nebel
box 6, volume 12
February 1930 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Farewell Murder, a Complete Novelette" by Dashiell Hammett
box 6, volume 13
March 1930 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents 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, volume 13
April 1930 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Wise Guy" by Frederick Nebel and Murderers Night by J. J. des Ormeaux
box 7, volume 13
May 1930 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Street Wof" by Frederick Nebel and "The Crime Crusher" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 7, volume 13
June 1930 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Tainted Power: A Story of Race Williams" by Carroll John Daly
box 7, volume 13
July 1930 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Somewhere in Mexico: A Complete Novelette" by Horace McCoy and "Strumming Sam Malone" by Cleve
Myers
box 7, volume 13
August 1930 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents 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, volume 13
September 1930 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Death in a Bowl" by Raoul Whitefield
box 7, volume 13
October 1930 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Dark Pack" by Nels Leroy Jorgensen and "Shooting out of Turn" by Carroll John Daly
box 7, volume 13
November 1930 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Torn cover; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Rough Justice" by Frederick Nebel and "Lone Hand Tactics" by Nels Leroy Jorgensen
box 7, volume 13
December 1930 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Photocopy; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Murder in the Ring" by Raoul Whitefield and "The Red-Hots" by Frederick Nebel
box 7, volume 13
January 1931 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents 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, volume 13
February 1931 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Derelict" by Joseph T. Shaw
box 7, volume 14
March 1931 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Murder by Mail" By Carroll John Daly
box 7, volume 14
April 1931 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Breed of Steel" by Jack Bertin
box 7, volume 14
June 1931 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "'The Flame' and Race Williams" by Carroll John Daly
box 7, volume 14
July 1931 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover detached; Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Tommy Talks" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 7, volume 14
August 1931 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents 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, volume 14
September 1931 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "All Star Favorites Number"
box 7, volume 14
October 1931 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents 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, volume 14
November 1931 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "It's the Live Ones that Talk" by Frederick Nebel
box 7, volume 14
December 1931 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Strictly Personal" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 7, volume 14
January 1932 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents 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, volume 14
February 1932 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents 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, volume 15
March 1932 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Feet First" by Erle Stanley Gardner and "Fast One" by Paul Cain
box 7, volume 15
April 1932 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Amateur Murderer" by Carroll John Daly
box 8, volume 15
May 1932 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Walking Dynamite" by Raoul Whitefield
box 8, volume 15
June 1932 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Velvet" by Paul Cain
box 8, volume 15
July 1932 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "The Devil Suit" by J. J. des Ormeaux
box 8, volume 15
August 1932 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Shake-up" by Frederick Nebel
box 8, volume 15
September 1932 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Blue Murder" by Raoul Whitefield and "He Could Take It" by Frederick Nebel
box 8, volume 15
October 1932 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Wings Over Texas" by Horace McCoy and "Party from Detroit" by Theodore Tinsley
box 8, volume 15
November 1932 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Sinful Cibola" by Jack Bertin and "Dead Men Tell Tales" by Raoul Whitefield
box 8, volume 15
December 1932 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Red Pavement" by Frederick Nebel
box 2, volume 16
December 1933 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents 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, volume 15
January 1933 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents 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, volume 15
February 1933 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents 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, volume 16
March 1933 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Red Jade" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 8, volume 16
April 1933 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Give the Man Rope" by H. H. Stinson
box 8, volume 16
May 1933 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Tequila" by John Bertin and "The Death Drop" by Carroll John Daly
box 8, volume 16
June 1933 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Save Your Tears: A Story of 'Tough Dick' Donahue" by Frederick Nebel
box 8, volume 16
July 1933 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Song and Dance" by Frederick Nebel
box 8, volume 16
August 1933 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Hospital Case" by Roger Torrey and "Dark Death" by Raoul Whitefield
box 8, volume 16
September 1933 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents 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, volume 16
October 1933 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Missing cover
box 8, volume 16
November 1933 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Missing cover
box 8, volume 16
December 1933 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Dead Men's Shoes" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 2, volume 17
July 1934 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents 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, volume 17
October 1934 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Finger Man" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 38
box 8, volume 16
January 1934 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents 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, volume 16
February 1934 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents 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, volume 17
March 1934 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Hunch" by Paul Cain and "Cop Killers" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 9, volume 17
April 1934 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "New Twenties" by Erle Stanley Gardner and "Death by Appointment" by Francis Cockrell
box 9, volume 17
May 1934 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Six Have Died" by Carroll John Daly
box 9, volume 17
June 1934 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by A. Redmond -- "Take It and Like It" by Frederick Nebel
box 9, volume 17
July 1934 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. W. Schlaikjer -- "Murder Can Be Funny" by Eugene Cunningham
box 9, volume 17
August 1934 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Murder Book" by Carroll John Daly
box 9, volume 17
September 1934 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
very brittle; Cover by Fred Craft -- "The Heavenly Rat" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 9, volume 17
October 1934 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Finger Man" by Raymond Chandler; photocopy of "Best Man" by Thomas Walsh (p. 109-123)
box 9, volume 17
November 1934 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents 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, volume 17
December 1934 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "An Old Spanish Custom" by Eugene Cunningham and "Murder isn't Legal" by W. T. Ballard
box 2, volume 17
January 1935 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Killer in the Rain" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 39
box 2, volume 18
June 1935 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rudolf Belarski -- "Nevada Gas" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 40
box 2, volume 18
November 1935 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Spanish Blood" by Raymond Chandler and "Winter Kill" -- by Frederick Nebel; Folder 41
box 9, volume 17
January 1935 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Killer in the Rain" by Raymond Chandler
box 9, volume 17
February 1935 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "It's a Gag" by Frederick Nebel and "Casy--Detective" by George Harmon Coxe
box 9, volume 18
March 1935 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Ghost of a Chance" by Frederick Nebel
box 9, volume 18
April 1935 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Fred Craft -- "Women are Trouble" by George Harmon Coxe
box 9, volume 18
May 1935 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents 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, volume 18
June 1935 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Missing cover
box 9, volume 18
July 1935 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rudolph Belarski -- "Murderer's Guest" by Theodore A. Tinsley
box 9, volume 18
August 1935 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rudolph Belarski -- "Die-Hard" by Frederick Nebel and "Broadway Babe" by John Lawrence
box 9, volume 18
September 1935 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rudolph Belarski -- "Double for Danger" by Sinclair Gluck; pages 98- 108 are missing
box 9, volume 18
October 1935 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rudolph Belarski -- "Mr. Casey Flashguns Murder" by George Harmon Coxe and "Crash and Carry" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 9, volume 18
November 1935 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Winter Kill" by Frederick Nebel and "Spanish Blood" by Raymond Chandler
box 10, volume 18
December 1935 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Red Death" by Eric Taylor
box 2, volume 18
January 1936 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Guns at Cyrano's" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 42
box 3, volume 19
March 1936 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "The Man Who Liked Dogs" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 1
box 3, volume 19
June 1936 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
"Goldfish" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 3
box 3, volume 19
September 1936 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "The Curtain" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 4
box 10, volume 18
January 1936 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Guns at Cyrano's" by Raymond Chandler
box 10, volume 18
February 1936 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "No Hard Feelings" by Frederick Nebel
box 10, volume 19
March 1936 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents 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, volume 19
April 1936 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Crack Down" by Frederick Nebel and "Blood on the Moon" by W. T. Ballard
box 10, volume 19
May 1936 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Murder Mixup" by George Harmon Coxe; photocopy of "Murder Mixup" (pp. 8-30)
box 10, volume 19
June 1936 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents 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, volume 19
July 1936 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "The Calloused Hand" by Eric Taylor and "Nothing Personal" by H. H. Stinson
box 10, volume 19
August 1936 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents 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, volume 19
September 1936 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "The Curtain" by Raymond Chandler
box 10, volume 19
October 1936 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Jail Bait" by Roger Torrey and "No Rest for Soldiers" by John K. Butler
box 10, volume 19
November 1936 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents 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, volume 19
December 1936 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Angelfish" by Lester Dent
box 3, volume 19
January 1937 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas -- "Bulldog" by Max Brand and "Try the Girl" by Raymond Chandler; Folder 5
box 10, volume 19
January 1937 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas -- "Bulldog" by Max Brand
box 10, volume 19
February 1937 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by John Drew -- "Fish to Fry" by Baynard H. Kendrick; Magazine is very brittle.
box 10, volume 20
March 1937 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Harry Stoner
box 10, volume 20
April 1937 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Stockton Mulford -- "Manhatten Whirligig" by Theodore Tinsley
box 10, volume 20
May 1937 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas
box 10, volume 20
June 1937 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes; Back cover is missing.
box 10, volume 20
July 1937 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas -- "Flight at Sunrise" by Dwight V. Babcock
box 10, volume 20
August 1937 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas -- "Murder is News" by Theodore Tinsley
box 11, volume 20
September 1937 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Wilbur Thomas
box 11, volume 20
October 1937 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
box 11, volume 20
November 1937 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Stockton Mulford
box 11, volume 20
December 1937 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes -- "Club Fighter" by John Lawrence
box 11, volume 20
January 1938 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
box 11, volume 20
February 1938 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
box 11, volume 21
March 1938 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
box 11, volume 21
April 1938 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by James Lunnon
box 11, volume 21
May 1938 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Raymond S. Pease
box 11, volume 21
June 1938 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by James Lunnon; Back cover is missing.
box 11, volume 21
August 1938 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Don Creigh; No back cover
box 11, volume 21
September 1938 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by James Lunnon
box 11, volume 21
October 1938 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes
box 11, volume 21
November 1938 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by James Lunnon
box 11, volume 21
December 1938 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by James Lunnon
box 11, volume 21
January 1939 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by James Lunnon
box 11, volume 21
February 1939 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by James Lunnon
box 11, volume 21
March 1939 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
box 11, volume 22
April 1939 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
box 11, volume 22
May 1939 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes
box 11, volume 22
June 1939 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
box 12, volume 22
July 1939 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes
box 12, volume 22
August 1939 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
box 12, volume 22
September 1939 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes
box 12, volume 22
October 1939 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
box 12, volume 22
November 1939 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes
box 12, volume 22
December 1939 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
box 12, volume 22
January 1940 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes
box 12, volume 22
February 1940 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes
box 12, volume 22
March 1940 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Edgar A. Whitney
box 12, volume 23
April 1940 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by J. George Janes
box 12, volume 23
June 1940 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Clamp Down" by H. H. Stinson
box 12, volume 23
July 1940 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Someday I'll Kill You" by Edward S. Williams
box 12, volume 23
August 1940 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder--For No Reason" by Roger Torrey and "Ten Carats of Lead" by Stewart Sterling
box 12, volume 23
September 1940 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Dog Eat Dog" by Robert Reeves and "Pictures for Murder" by W. T. Ballard
box 12, volume 23
October 1940 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "C-JAG" by Cornell Woolrich and "Money To Burn" by D. L. Champion
box 12, volume 23
November 1940 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents 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, volume 23
December 1940 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Jade Sanctuary" by Earle Stanley Gardner and "Coat of Many Killers" by Stewart Sterling; No back
cover.
box 12, volume 23
January 1941 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Five Minutes for Murder" by Carroll John Daly and "Bomb Heat" by Peter Paige
box 12, volume 23
February 1941 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents 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, volume 23
March 1941 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "The Flying Hearse" by Robert Reeves and "The Platinum Pig" by Stewart Sterling
box 13, volume 23
April 1941 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents 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, volume 24
May 1941 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Once Around the Clock" by George Harmon Coxe
box 13, volume 24
June 1941 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents 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, volume 24
July 1941 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents 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, volume 24
August 1941 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents 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, volume 24
September 1941 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Milton Luros -- "Iron Cure" by John Lawrence and "Climb Back in Your Coffin" by H. H. Stinson
box 13, volume 24
October 1941 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Milton Luros -- "Pick Up the Marbles" by D. L. Champion and "San Quentin Quail" by Dale Clark
box 13, volume 24
November 1941 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents 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, volume 24
December 1941 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Rain Check" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 13, volume 24
January 1942 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Milton Luros -- "Bail Bait" by Robert Reeves and "What's Money" by D. L. Champion
box 13, volume 24
February 1942 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents 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, volume 24
March 1942 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Kindly Omit Flowers" by Stewart Sterling and "Murder Pays 7 to 1" by D. L. Champion
box 13, volume 24
April 1942 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Two Dead Hands" by Erle Stanley Gardner
box 13, volume 25
May 1942 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
no cover
box 13, volume 25
June 1942 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder in the Red" by George Harmon Coxe and "The Dancing Rats" by Richard Sale
box 13, volume 25
July 1942 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents 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, volume 25
August 1942 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents 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, volume 25
September 1942 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Donovan's Brain" by Curt Siodmak
box 13, volume 25
October 1942 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents 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, volume 25
November 1942 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Now I Slay Me--" by Dale Clark and "A Taste for Murder" by Robert Reeves
box 14, volume 25
December 1942 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder Lays the Keel" by Hugh Pentecost and "Bullets, Back to Back" by Stewart Sterling
box 14, volume 25
January 1943 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Why Meddle with Murder?" by Merle Constiner and "Blood on the Lens" by George Harmon Coxe
box 14, volume 25
February 1943 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Come Out of the Grave!" by D. L. Champion and "Slay as You Go" by Dale Clark
box 14, volume 25
March 1943 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "The Incredible Mister Smith" by Erle Stanley Gardner and "Coffin # 3" by Philip Ketchum
box 14, volume 25
May 1943 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents 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, volume 26
July 1943 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Dead as a Duck" by Stewart Sterling and "Danger-- Mind at Work!" by C. P. Donnel, Jr.
box 14, volume 26
September 1943 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto
box 14, volume 26
November 1943 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Kill One, Skip One" by Merle Constiner and "So Red the Ruby" by C. P. Donnel, Jr.
box 14, volume 26
January 1944 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "A Brain for Sale" by C. G. Tahney and "Murder O' Mine" by Dale Clark
box 14, volume 26
March 1944 : Issue 5
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder Goes to Market" by Leslie Charters
box 14, volume 26
May 1944 : Issue 6
Scope and Contents 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, volume 26
July 1944 : Issue 7
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder Theme" by Carroll John Daly
box 14, volume 26
September 1944 : Issue 8
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Cash as Cash Can" by D. L. Champion and "Without Benefit of Camera" by K. M. Knight
box 14, volume 26
November 1944 : Issue 9
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder A. W. O. L." by Robert Reeves
box 14, volume 26
January 1945 : Issue 10
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "That's Murder for You!" by Dale Clark and "Leave Your Killing Card" by Julius Long
box 14, volume 26
March 1945 : Issue 11
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "Murder had a Little Lamb" by Dale Clark
box 14, volume 26
May 1945 : Issue 12
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "A Noose for Little Nemo" by H. H. Stinson and "The Creeps" by G. T. Fleming-Roberts
box 14, volume 27
July 1945 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Spend, Killer, Spend!" by D. L. Champion
box 14, volume 27
September 1945 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "Alcoholics Calamitous" by Robert Reeves and "Dead Man's Diary" by Brett Halliday
box 14, volume 27
November 1945 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents 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, volume 27
January 1946 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents 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, volume 28
February 1946 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Gloria Stoll -- "Deadline for Death" by Thomson Burtis
box 14, volume 28
March 1946 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "You're the Crime in My Coffin" by H. H. Stinson
box 15, volume 28
May 1946 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Murder by the Carton" by Julius Long
box 15, volume 28
July 1946 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Two-Death Parlay" by D. L. Champion
box 15, volume 29
September 1946 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Hot-House Homicide" by William Campbell Gault
box 15, volume 29
November 1946 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "Infernal Revenue" by D. L. Champion and "The Brooklyn Eye" by C. M. Kornbluth
box 15, volume 29
January 1947 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Rafael DeSoto -- "The Cold, Cold Ground" by William Campbell Gault
box 15, volume 29
March 1947 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Albert Drake -- "Dead on Arrival" by Merle Constiner
box 15, volume 30
May 1947 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Too Mean to Die" by D. L. Champion
box 15, volume 30
July 1947 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Malvin Singer -- "The Constant Shadow" by William Campbell Gault
box 15, volume 30
September 1947 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Murder Makes the Cock Crow" by Fergus Truslow
box 15, volume 30
November 1947 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "The Case of the Sleeping Beauty" by William Campbell Gault
box 15, volume 31
January 1948 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Red Christmas" by George F. Kull
box 15, volume 31
March 1948 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Hanging is Too Good" by Robert Martin
box 15, volume 31
May 1948 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "You'll Never Die Rich" by Curtis Cluff
box 15, volume 31
July 1948 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Leave Killing to the Cops" by Curtis Cluff
box 15, volume 32
September 1948 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Murder is a Pleasure" by H. H. Stinson
box 15, volume 32
November 1948 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Overdose of Lead" by Curtis Cluff
box 15, volume 32
January 1949 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by Peter Stevens -- "Trouble on Circuit 13" by Robert J. McCain
box 15, volume 32
March 1949 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Flaming Angel" by Frederick C. Davis and "Let's All Swing Together" by Robert Martin
box 15, volume 33
May 1949 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Pardon My Poison Platters" by Fergus Truslow and "Murder in One Syllable" by John D. MacDonald
box 15, volume 33
July 1949 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Richest Man in the Graveyard" by Robert Martin and "Big Shots Die Young" by Richard Deming
box 15, volume 33
September 1949 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Man's Best Friend" by Robert Turner
box 15, volume 33
November 1949 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "The 7th Pallbearer" by Robert C. Dennis
box 16, volume 34
January 1950 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Dirge in Bolero Time" by Robert Martin
box 16, volume 34
May 1950 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Glitter Street Nightmare" by Robert C. Dennis
box 16, volume 34
July 1950 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Lost in the Shrouds" by Robert Martin and "Jukebox Jungle" by John D. MacDonald
box 16, volume 35
November 1950 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Five O'Clock Shroud" by Richard Deming" and "Hell is What You Make It" by Robert Turner
box 16, volume 35
January 1951 : Issue 3
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown.
box 16, volume 35
March 1951 : Issue 4
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "For Better or for Death"
box 16, volume 36
May 1951 : Issue 1
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "Murder in the Ring" by Raoul Whitfield
box 16, volume 36
July 1951 : Issue 2
Scope and Contents note
Cover by unknown. "The Paper Doll" by G. T. Fleming- Roberts