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Includes "The Day To Come" by Don Tracy.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "The Inverness Cape" by August Derleth.
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Cover by John Howett. Includes "Vault Of The Damned" by Nat Schachner.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "Reign Of The Silver Terror" by Grant Stockbridge.
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"Wings of the Doomed" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Includes "Mystery On Happy Bones" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Cover by Rogers. Includes "Time Wants A Skeleton" by Ross Rocklynne.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "King Of The Red Killers" by Grant Stockbridge.
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Includes "The Shriveling Murders" by Zorro.
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Cover by Jack Coggins. Includes "Turncoat" by Damon Knight
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"Winged Beasts of Death" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover by Schneeman. Includes "The Merman" by L. Sprague de Camp.
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Cover by Hannes Bok. Includes "Beauty's Beast" by Robert Bloch.
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Includes "Farewell To Balloon Racing" by Samuel Taylor Moore.
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Includes "Purple Aces" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover by A. von Munchhausen. Features "Lunar Landing" by Lester Del Ray and "The Beast" by L. Ron Hubbard.
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Final issue. Cover by Emsh. Includes "Gateway To Paradise" by Jack Williamson.
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Cover by A. R. Tilburne. Includes "The Beasts Of Barsac" by Robert Bloch.
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Cover by Virgil Finlay. Features "Globe of Memories" by Seabury Quinn.
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Cover by George Rozen. Includes "The Sky Hawk Screams" by Arthur Guy Empy.
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Features "The Time Terror" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Includes "The Men Vanished" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Includes "The Bat Staffel" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover by Ed Cartier. Includes "The Reign Of Wizardry" by Jack Williamson.
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Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Includes "The Portal In The Picture" by Henry Kuttner.
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Final issue. Cover by H.W. Wesso. Includes "The Cairn On The Headland" by Robert E. Howard.
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Includes "Gunswift" by Jack Byrne.
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"Sky-Guns for the Murder Master" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Includes "The Faceless Men" by Arthur Leo Zagat.
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Cover by Virgil Finlay. Includes "Fane Of The Black Pharaoh" by Robert Bloch.
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Includes "Pony Express Rider" by A. Leslie.
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Includes "Air Cops In The Land Of The Shiek" by Edward Daly.
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Cover by M. Isip. Includes "The Roaring Trumpet" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt.
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Includes "The Mind Magnet" by Paul Ernst.
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Features "Murder Lake" by Maxwell Grant.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "The Fiddler's Fee" by Robert Bloch.
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Cover by Pete Kuhlhoff. Includes "The Skull Of The Marquis De Sade" by Robert Bloch.
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Includes "Murder Nightmare" by Norman A. Daniels.
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Includes "He Didn't Like Cats" by L. Ron Hubbard.
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Cover by Walter Popp. Includes "Big Planet" by Jack Vance.
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Cover by Rogers. Includes "Asylum" by A. E. van Vogt.
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Cover by Ed Emsh. Includes "The Spiral Of The Ages" by Fletcher Pratt.
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Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Includes "The Bottom Of The World" by John Coleman Burroughs & Hulbert Burroughs.
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Cover by Alex Schomburg. Includes "Death Of Iron" by S. S. Held.
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Cover design by C.C. Serf. Includes "The Hyena" by Robert E. Howard.
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Features "The Terrible Stork" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Cover by Herbert Morton Stoops. Includes "Swords Of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Features "Bequest of Evil" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "Lansing's Luxury" by August Derleth.
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Cover by Alex Schomburg. Includes "The White Widows" by Sam Merwin, Jr.
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Cover by Jack Coggins. Includes "Asylum Earth" by Bruce Elliott.
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Cover by Graves Gladney. Includes "The Bronze Door" by Raymond Chandler. Only appearance of this short story.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "The Pain Emperor" by Grant Stockbridge.
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"The Sky Serpent Flies Again" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover design by E.M. Stevenson. Includes "He" by H.P. Lovecraft.
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The early issues were published in the format of Macfadden's "true story" magazines. To add versimilitude, the magazine was illustrated with double-exposure photographs and the stories often carried double bylines in the form "by X as told to Y," where X
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Includes "The Quest Of Tarzan" by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Summer issue. Includes "The Whispering Eyes".
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Includes "The Crocodile!" by Theodore Roscoe.
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Cover by Walter Popp. Includes "The Wages Of Synergy" by Theodore Sturgeon.
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"Fangs of the Winged Cobra" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover by Emsh. Includes "Name Your Pleasure" by James E. Gunn.
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Cover by John Howett. Includes "Devil's Sculptor" by Arthur J. Burks.
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Features "Alibi Trail" by Maxwell Grant.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "The Black Kiss" by Robert Bloch & Henry Kuttner.
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Cover by Brundage. Includes "The People Of The Black Circle (part 2) by Robert E. Howard, This is an early Conan story.
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Includes "The Synthetic Men of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Cover by H. W. Brown. Includes "Mercutian Adventure" by Raymond Z. Gallun.
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Features "Blood Donor Boomerang" by Frederick C. Davis.
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Cover by William Timmins. Includes "The Weapon Shop" by A. E. van Vogt.
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Includes "Her Lover-Death".
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Cover by Virgil Finlay. Includes "The Drifting Snow" by August Derleth.
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"Bombs from the Murder Wolves" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Includes "The Crime Laboratory" by Grant Stockbridge.
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Cover by William Timmins. Includes "Judgement Night" by C. L. Moore.
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Includes "The Devil's Rescue" by L. Ron Hubbard.
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Includes "The Shadow Men" by A. E. Van Vogt.
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"The Black Buzzard Flies to Hell" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover art by Brundage. Includes "The People Of The Black Circle" by R.E. Howard.
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Includes "Quicksands Of Youthwardness" by Malcolm Jameson.
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Cover by Harold S. DeLay. Includes "Dragon Moon" by Henry Kuttner.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "Slave Of The Flames" by Robert Bloch.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "Prince Of The Red Looters" by Grant Stockbridge.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "The Red Death" by Grant Stockbridge.
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"Wings of the Death Monster" by Robert J. Hogan.
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"Raiders of the Death Patrol" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "Beyond The Black River" by Robert E. Howard.
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Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Includes "The Watcher From The Sky" by August Derleth.
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Cover by Rogers. Includes "Salvage" by Vic Phillips
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Continuing from ORIENTAL STORIES. Cover design by Brundage. Includes "The Master Of Dragons" by H. Bedford Jones.
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Includes "Swooning Lady" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Cover by Lee Brown Coye. Includes "Home To Mother" by Manly Wade Wellman.
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Includes "Your Money's Worth In The Air" by Lieut. W. M. Wood.
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Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Includes "The Great Ego" by Norman A. Daniels.
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Cover by Frank Kelly Freas. Includes "The Dead Man" by Fritz Leiber, Jr.
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"Death Is My Destiny" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover by Rogers. Includes "Crisis In Utopia" by Norman L. Knight.
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Cover by Ed Emsh. Includes "Too Late For Eternity" by Bryce Walton.
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Cover by Rogers. Includes "Jurisdiction" by Nat Schachner.
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Cover by A. R. Tilburne. Includes "Satan's Phonograph" by Robert Bloch.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "Queen Of The Black Coast" by Robert E. Howard.
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Includes "The Scarlet Widow" by Hugh B. Cave.
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Cover by F. Tinsley. Includes "The Purple Fez" by George L. Eaton.
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Final issue. Includes "Emeralds Of The Inca" by George Creel.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "The Bloody Forty-Five Days" by Curtis Steele.
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Two alternate covers are known to exist.
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Cover by W. H. Silvey. Includes "The Place In The Woods" by August Derleth. Digest size.
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Includes "We Bomb Tokyo!" by Jay Hamilton.
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Cover by F. Tinsley. Includes "The Curse Of The Killer" by George L. Eaton.
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Cover by A. R. Tilburne. Includes "The Tombstone" by Ray Bradbury.
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"Hordes of the Wingless Death" by Robert J. Hogan.
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"The Squadron of Death Flies High" by Robert J. Hogan.
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