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Hunted, harried, Barstac finds an unexpected aide in a girl who wants to save him...for a killing... - Moon of Memory

Future magazine, May 1950.

Cover by Milton Luros.

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One by one, the city's most prominent citizens fell prey to an ingenious and macabre series of murders. A mysterious, pitiless agent of evil on a single-minded mission of destruction was at work - a terrible power whom hapless victims, in their last living moments, came to know and dread as the Fingers of death!

Authorities grew more baffled as the ring of horror spread ever wider. One man and one man alone could penetrate the veil of secrecy and reveal the grim living presence behind those murderous fingers. A man more spectral than night itself, a phantom in a dark slouch hat and flowing cloak, whose eerie laugh of triumph sowed terror in the hearts of criminals everywhere!

Cover by George Rozen.

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In the living darkness that enshrouded him, Jud Mornay lay motionless, bound by the straps they said were to protect him...waiting for the familiar lilac scent that would be the last sensation he would know in this world...

Dime Mystery Magazine, January 1948

Cover artist unknown

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Wisdom was his destiny- learn and conquer his creed... until in an atom-scarred universe there was but one thing to overcome- man!

Super Science Stories Magazine, September 1949.

Cover by Laurence.

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Score!

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I don’t know who painted this cover. And it’s killing me.

Typically, the Canadian edition of a classic pulp magazine will be more or less the same as it’s american counterpart, cover date may be different, and the adds and back cover may point you to different brands of cigarettes and laxatives, but the stories and art, generally, are intact.

But not always.

The cover painting for this, the May 1942 Canadian edition of Black Mask magazine (contents of the december 1941 American issue), does not share it’s original’s cover. And here’s the thing, I like the Canadian cover better.

And i have no idea who painted it. None. Sigh.

On the plus side, it’s got an Erle Stanley Gardner story, and that’s cool right?:)

Black Mask, May 1942 (Canadian Edition).

Last image is of the original dec 41’ american issue).

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Big haul of (mostly) scifi pulps!

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Ssscore! More stuff to post soon.