Crime, Mystery, & Gangster Fiction Magazine Index

Contents Lists

Black Mask [v25 #7, November 1942] (15¢, pulp) 11 · A Taste for Murder [Cellini Smith] · Robert Reeves · nv 38 · How Big Is the Bucket? · Alan Farley · ss 50 · Donovan’s Brain [Part 3 of 3; Dr. Patrick Cory] · Curt Siodmak · n. 86 · Beat Me Daddy [John Collins] · Norbert Davis · nv 106 · Now I Slay Me— [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv

Black Mask [v25 #8, December 1942] (15¢, pulp) Behind the Black Mask · [The Readers] · lc 10 · Bullets, Back to Back [Special Squad] · Stewart Sterling · nv 35 · Death in a Homburg Hat · Harold Joyce · ss 44 · Murder Lays the Keel · Hugh Pentecost · nv 100 · The Con Man and the Cop [Costello] · W. T. Ballard · ss 107 · Two Pin Man · Henry Norton · vi 111 · Killer’s Luck · Eric Provost · ss

Black Mask [v25 #9, January 1943] (15¢, pulp) 11 · Blood on the Lens [Part 1 of 3; Jack “Flashgun” Casey] · George Harmon Coxe · sl 45 · Buttered on Both Sides · Alan Farley · ss 54 · Why Meddle with Murder? [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv 92 · Don’t Stand under the Blackjack Tree [Doc Rennie] · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss 111 · Bag o’ Bones · Tom Marvin · ss

Black Mask [v25 #10, February 1943] (15¢, pulp) 12 · Come Out of the Grave [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 36 · If the Dead Could Talk · Cornell Woolrich · ss 46 · Slay as You Go [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 66 · Suffer, Little Children · Henry Norton · ss 76 · Blood on the Lens [Part 2 of 3; Jack “Flashgun” Casey] · George Harmon Coxe · sl

Black Mask [v25 #11, March 1943] (15¢, pulp) 10 · The Incredible Mister Smith [Ed Jenkins; Ngat T’oy] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv 45 · Slay, Fiddle, Slay · Henry Norton · ss 54 · Coffin Number Three · Philip Ketchum · nv 87 · Conspiracy in Sunlight · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss 96 · Blood on the Lens [Part 3 of 3; Jack “Flashgun” Casey] · George Harmon Coxe · sl

Black Mask [v25 #12, May 1943] (15¢, pulp) 8 · Save a Grave for Me [Peter Trapp, II] · Frederick C. Davis · nv 36 · Sauce for the Gander · Day Keene · ss 46 · Mark Hoy’s Death-Stick [“Sah-jin” O’Hara] · Walter C. Brown · nv 73 · Modeled in Murder · William E. Brandon · ss 82 · Death Draws the Shutter · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss 90 · Name Your Poison [John Collins] · Norbert Davis · ss 107 · Fatal Friday · Mitchell Wilson · ss 117 · Keyed for a Killing · Julius Long · ss

Black Mask [v26 #1, July 1943] (15¢, pulp) 8 · Dead as a Duck [Special Squad] · Stewart Sterling · nv 36 · Danger—Mind at Work! [Doc Rennie] · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · nv 62 · The Turkey Buzzard Blues [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv 100 · The Cat with Ten Lives [“Sah-jin” O’Hara] · Walter C. Brown · ss 111 · Murderer’s Way · Henry Norton · ss 118 · Loser Takes All · Julius Long · ss

Black Mask [v26 #2, September 1943] (15¢, pulp) 8 · The Gong of Vengeance [Ed Jenkins; Ngat T’oy] · Erle Stanley Gardner · nv 48 · Heads—The Corpse Loses [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 70 · The Brenneke Slug [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 91 · No Match for Murder · Julius Long · ss 96 · I Thought I’d Die [Peter Trapp, II] · Frederick C. Davis · nv

Black Mask [v26 #3, November 1943] (15¢, pulp) 8 · Kill One, Skip One [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv 47 · Two Rings for Murder · H. H. Stinson · nv 73 · It’s So Peaceful in the Country · William E. Brandon · ss 80 · So Red the Ruby · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · nv 118 · The Devil’s Jack-Pot · Julius Long · ss

Black Mask [v26 #4, January 1944] (15¢, pulp) 8 · A Brain for Sale [Nickie] · C. G. Tahney · nv 49 · Murder o’ Mine [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 66 · The House of Red Candles [“Sah-jin” O’Hara] · Walter C. Brown · nv 92 · Who Took the Corpse? · D. L. Champion · ss 102 · Kill Without Murder · Bruno Fischer · ss

Black Mask [v26 #5, March 1944] (15¢, pulp) 8 · Murder Goes to Market [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv 49 · Hands Down [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 66 · Death for a Dollar [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv; not the same as the story of the same name in the January 1950 issue. 85 · Clues in the Night [Doc Rennie] · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss 96 · Tears for Little Willie · Clyde Morehead · vi 98 · Call the Undertaker · Ted Stratton · ss

Black Mask [v26 #6, May 1944] (15¢, pulp) 8 · The Hound with the Golden Eye [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv 43 · The Corpse Pays Cash [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 59 · Death Without Blackstone · Clyde Morehead · ss 66 · Don’t Ration Murder · Julius Long · ss 82 · Monkey See · Dale Clark · ss 97 · An Earful for Willie · Richard Dermody · ss 103 · Handwriting on the Wall · H. Wolff Salz · ss

Black Mask [v26 #7, July 1944] ed. K. S. White (Fictioneers, Inc., 15¢, 114pp, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) Details supplied by Katherine Harper. 8 · Picture Frame · Cornell Woolrich · nv 29 · Murder Theme · Carroll John Daly · ss 46 · Slay on Sight [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · ss 62 · Dead Men Don’t Ask Questions · Ennen Reaves Hall · ss 82 · Merely Murder [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 97 · Sing for Your Slaughter · W. T. Ballard · ss

Black Mask [v26 #8, September 1944] (15¢, pulp) 10 · The White Walker [Doc Rennie] · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss 30 · Cash as Cash Can [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 45 · The Nip and the Bite [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · ss 58 · Without Benefit of Camera · K. M. Knight · nv 89 · Suicide Soup · Ken Lewis · ss

Black Mask [v26 #9, November 1944] ed. K. S. White (Fictioneers, Inc., 15¢, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) (Full Text) Details taken from Table of Contents. 6 · Lifting the January Black Mask · Anon. · ms 6 · Can You Stick to Your Guns? · Julius Long · qz 10 · Murder A.W.O.L. [Cellini Smith] · Robert Reeves · nv 30 · A Taste for Cognac [Mike Shayne] · Brett Halliday · nv 55 · Blind Bogey [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 66 · Killer Stay ’Way from My Door [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv

Black Mask [v26 #10, January 1945] (15¢, pulp) 10 · Blood, Sweat and Biers · Robert Reeves · ss 30 · Leave Your Killing Card [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 41 · Good Hunting [Doc Rennie] · C. P. Donnel, Jr. · ss 50 · A Corpse Means Cash [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 64 · That’s Murder for You! [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv

Black Mask [v26 #11, March 1945] (15¢, pulp, cover by Gloria Stoll) 10 · Until the Undertaker Comes [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv 37 · Dead as in Blonde [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · ss 49 · Murder Had a Little Lamb [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · ss 61 · Get Your Own Corpse [Ken O’Hara] · H. H. Stinson · ss 78 · Goon My Way [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · ss

Black Mask [v26 #12, May 1945] (15¢, pulp, cover by Gloria Stoll) 10 · The Creeps · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · nv 29 · Dressed to Kill · W. T. Ballard · ss 42 · A Noose for Little Nemo · H. H. Stinson · nv 62 · The Witch of Birdfoot Ranch · Merle Constiner · ss 75 · Caliente · James R. McKenna · vi 78 · Carnie Kill [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · ss

Black Mask [v27 #1, July 1945] (15¢, pulp, cover by Samuel Cherry) [interior artwork] · Peter Kuhlhoff · il 8 · Spend, Killer, Spend! [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 24 · The Witch of Endor County [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 38 · Open and Shut [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 53 · Jail Will Be Lonely · Michael Sutton · ss 62 · Here’s Homicide · Henry Norton · ss 74 · Dig Down Deep · Frances Beck · ss 79 · Death on Ice · Fergus Truslow · ss 87 · The Catalyst · Anthony Boucher · ss

Black Mask [v27 #2, September 1945] ed. K. S. White (15¢, pulp, cover by Gloria Stoll) Details taken from Table of Contents. 10 · Dead Man’s Diary [Mike Shayne] · Brett Halliday · nv 49 · Heir in the Air [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 62 · Alcoholics Calamitous [Cellini Smith] · Robert Reeves · nv 80 · Over My Dead Booty [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv Lifting the November Black Mask · Anon. · ms Can You Stick to Your Guns? · Julius Long · qz

Black Mask [v27 #3, November 1945] ed. K. S. White (Fictioneers, Inc., 15¢, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) Details taken from Table of Contents. 6 · Lifting the January Black Mask · Anon. · ms 6 · Can You Stick to Your Guns? · Julius Long · qz 10 · Your Corpses Are Showing [Ken O’Hara] · H. H. Stinson · nv 33 · Never Kid a Killing [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · ss 45 · Hardboot Homicide · Fergus Truslow · ss 52 · Money Makes the Mare Go [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 66 · I’ll Be Slaying You · E. Hoffmann Price · nv

Black Mask [v27 #4, January 1946] (15¢, 98pp, pulp, cover by Gloria Stoll) Details taken from eBay listing. 10 · There’s Dough in Murder [Nickie] · C. G. Tahney · nv 37 · I Ain’t Got No Body [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 48 · Hand Me Down My Thirty-Eight [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv 76 · Date with Dynamite [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv

Black Mask [v28 #1, February 1946] (15¢, pulp, cover by Gloria Stoll) 10 · Deadline for Death · Thomson Burtis · nv 43 · Murder Lode [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 57 · Accounts Deceivable · Ted Stratton · ss 60 · Flowers for Flanagan [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 72 · Shoot if You Must [Detective Slabbe] · William Rough · ss 83 · The Sentinel of Green Cove · Roland Phillips · ss

Black Mask [v28 #2, March 1946] (Fictioneers, Inc., 15¢, 98pp, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. [interior artwork] · Peter Kuhlhoff · il 6 · Lifting the April Black Mask · Anon. · ms 6 · Can You Take the Witness? · Julius Long · pz 8 · Homicide Hangover · Dick Pearce · nv 35 · Forgive Not Our Trespassers [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 47 · The Mad Dog of Lame Creek · Thorne Lee · ss 52 · You’re the Crime in My Coffin · H. H. Stinson · nv 69 · One Fall for Murder · K. Webster · ss 76 · The Killing Was Mutuel · Fergus Truslow · ss 93 · Answers to quiz · Julius Long · ms

Black Mask [v28 #3, May 1946] ed. K. S. White (Fictioneers Inc., 15¢, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) Details taken from Table of Contents. 6 · Lifting the July Black Mask · Anon. · ms 6 · Can You Take the Witness? · Julius Long · pz 8 · Murder by the Carton [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 26 · Unholy Matrimony · H. H. Stinson · ss 40 · My Gun Hires Legitimate [Detective Slabbe] · William Rough · nv 60 · The Early Corpse Gets the Worm [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 72 · Rat Race in Foxtown · Robert Martin · ss 87 · The Case of the Mind-Reading Seal · Harry Epstein · ss

Black Mask [v28 #4, July 1946] ed. K. S. White (Fictioneers, Inc., 15¢, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) Details supplied by K. Becker. [interior artwork] · Peter Kuhlhoff · il 6 · Lifting the September Black Mask · Anon. · ms 6 · Can You Take the Witness? · Julius Long · pz 8 · Shroud with a Silver Lining · Camford Sheavely · nv 25 · Two-Death Parlay [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 40 · Booty and the Beast · Dale Clark · ss 54 · The Fix · Norman Katkov · ss 60 · Crime Is Bustin’ Out All Over [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 76 · Middle Man for Murder · W. Lee Herrington · ss 85 · Conscience Money · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss

Black Mask [v29 #1, September 1946] (Fictioneers, Inc., 15¢, 98pp, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) Details supplied by Monte Herridge. [interior artwork] · Peter Kuhlhoff · il 6 · Lifting the November Black Mask · Anon. · ms 6 · Can You Take the Witness? · Julius Long · pz 10 · Hot-House Homicide [Mortimer Jones] · William Campbell Gault · nv 35 · Beer-Bottle Polka [Tim Skeat] · C. M. Kornbluth · ss 44 · Don’t Burn Your Corpses Behind You [Detective Slabbe] · William Rough · nv 68 · The Sound of the Shot [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 80 · This Is Murder [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · ss

Black Mask [v29 #2, November 1946] (15¢, 98pp, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) Details taken from eBay listing. 10 · Shot from in Close · Paul Komisaruk · ss 30 · Infernal Revenue [Rex Sackler] · D. L. Champion · nv 46 · Murder in the Mails [Willie Carmody; Margaret O’Leary] · Robert C. Dennis · ss 62 · Shake Well and Kill · Jack Karney · ss 79 · The Brooklyn Eye [Tim Skeat] · C. M. Kornbluth · ss

Black Mask [v29 #3, January 1947] ed. K. S. White (Fictioneers, Inc., 15¢, 98pp, pulp, cover by Rafael DeSoto) Details supplied by Katherine Harper. 8 · The Cold, Cold Ground [Mortimer Jones] · William Campbell Gault · nv 27 · I Remember Murder [Ben Corbett] · Julius Long · nv 42 · Hot Ice [Detective Slabbe] · William Rough · nv 61 · Heavenly Homicide [Mike O’Hanna] · Dale Clark · nv 73 · The Double-Cross · Donegan Wiggins · vi 74 · The Corpse I Left Behind Me · Donn Mullally · ss