Ghost Stories - November 1929 (Macfadden)

Actor, matinee idol, and uncle to Lionel, Ethel, and John Barrymore, John Drew Jr. (November 13, 1853 – July 9, 1927)

“Black Mask”  December 1935    cover by John Drew

Above the Law by Earle Stanley Gardner

Red Death by Eric Taylor

Tough People by Eugene Cunningham

The Man from Monaco by Nels Jorgensen

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February 1937 issue

cover art by John Drew

~ Bayard H(ardwick) Kendrick, “Fish to Fry”, 1st of 14 stories with Mikes Standish (Stan) Rice, ‘The Hungry’[?], all set in Florida, author’s debut in BM

~ John Onslow, “The Damned Rookie”, 'Larry Brogan, rookie cop', 2nd of 2 stories in BM

~ H.H. Stinson, “Lay Off, O’Hara”, 4th of 14 with ‘Ken O’Hara, fighting reporter on Los Angeles Tribune’, 5th of 27 stories in BM

~ MacAllister Street, “$1000 a Day”, ‘Hade, private ‘tec’, only appearance in BM

~ Roger Torrey, “Murder’s Never Funny”, ‘3rd (of 14) in Pat McCarthy series, with Marge Chalmers often his “sidekick”; he is ex-NYC cop, ex-agency man (Chicago & St. Louis) who dislikes cops’, 25th of 50 appearances in BM

~ Donald Wandrei, “The Rod and the Staff”, ‘short-short’, 1st of 6 stories in BM

~ Cornell Woolrich, “Murder on the Night Boat”, ‘police dick on honeymoon; Sergeant James Q. Bradford’, 2nd of 24 (22 original) stories to appear in BM