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Blue Book [v 56 #4, February 1933] (pulp) [DKL:18261]
  • 4-5 · The Sportsman’s Scrapbook—V: The ’Iron Horse’ · Ewing Walker · cl; nonfiction piece on 1886 horserace and winner Barnum.
  • 6-13 · The Eternal Light · Roy Chanslor · ss; crime story; redemption of a supposed coward who was really waiting his chance to deal with the crooks himself.
  • 14-41 · Breakers Ahead! [Part 1 of 3] · Frederick Bechdolt · sl; story of the cover—"by the distinguished author of ’Sindbad at Oakland Creek’ and ’Youth Rides Victorious"—pt 1 of 3 parts—seems to move from a sea/dockside story to Mexican adventure, apparently following that stash of gold coins?.
  • 42-51 · Red Sunset Land · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss; South Seas adventure.
  • 52-57 · On The Dotted Line · John Valentine · ss; pushy insurance salesman explains his actions to a judge.
  • 58-86 · Miracle in the Desert · William J. Makin · ss; “the greatest adventure of the Intelligence Officer who was known to the natives as the Red Wolf of Arabia"—another in series promised soon.
  • 87-91 · The Devil’s Taxicab · Roy Hoon · ss; who is behind The Devil’s Taxi, which frightens other drivers at night? A geezer who wants to sell part of his land for a new highway.
  • 92-102 · Three-Piece Dollar · H. Bedford-Jones · ss; “manager of a tin-mine in the interior of China runs into a strange adventure”.
  • Free Lances in Diplomacy:
    ___ 103-112 · Six Who Could Think · Clarence Herbert New · ss; British countess (by marriage) is really a “Bolshevist agent” behind the deaths of European politicians.
  • 113-121 · Breeches Burned Behind [Bugwine Breck] · Arthur K. Akers · ss; “Bugwine Breck the human bloodhound"—allegedly humorous Negro Dialect story.
  • 122-149 · When Worlds Collide [Part 6 of 6] · Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie · n.; contains chapters XXIII through XXVII.
  • 150-151 · Trapped in the Tunnel · Mrs. E. S. Sanders · ar; true life adventure.
  • 152-154 · The Tragic Ten Days · Gerald Brandon · ar; ibid; newspaperman in Mexico during unrest.
  • 155-156 · Loose Screws · Charles H. Bowie · ar; ibid; mill robbery.
  • 156-157 · Aboard a Fighting Stallion · Stanley M. Nevin · ar; ibid.
  • 158,160 · “Fanned” · John D. Martin · ar; ibid; near-riot at minor league baseball game.

Blue Book [v 56 #5, March 1933] ed. Donald Kennicott (The McCall Company, 15¢, 160pp, pulp) [RF]

Blue Book [v 56 #6, April 1933] ed. Donald Kennicott (The McCall Company, 15¢, 160pp, pulp, cover by Joseph Chernoweth) [DG]

Blue Book [v 57 #1, May 1933] (160pp, 9¾" x 12", cover by Joseph C. Chenoweth) Details taken from dealer’s catalogue on ABEBooks.

Blue Book [v 57 #2, June 1933] ed. Donald Kennicott (The McCall Company, 15¢, 160pp, pulp, cover by Joseph Chenoweth) [RF]

Blue Book [v 57 #3, July 1933] ed. Donald Kennicott (The McCall Company, 15¢, 160 , pulp, cover by Joseph Chenoweth) [DG]

Blue Book [v 57 #5, September 1933] (15¢, 160pp, pulp, cover by Dean Cornwell) Information from EBAY auction.

Blue Book [v 57 #6, October 1933] (pulp, cover by Joseph Chenoweth) There’s also a bunch of ’Prize Stories of Real Experience’ of which the interesting one is “The Bali Girl” in which Captain Howard Hartman tells of his encounter with Joseph Conrad in November 1887 with an episode that seems to have been the story behind Lord Jim. [MA]

Blue Book [v 58 #1, November 1933] (pulp) [DP:2260]

Blue Book [v 58 #2, December 1933] (pulp, cover by Joseph Chenoweth) Plus a bunch of real experiences. [DP:2260; MA]

Blue Book [v 58 #3, January 1934] (pulp) [DP:2260]

Blue Book [v 58 #4, February 1934] (15¢, 160pp, pulp, cover by Joseph Chenoweth) [DP:2260]

Blue Book [v 58 #5, March 1934] (pulp) [DP:2260]

Blue Book [v 58 #6, April 1934] (pulp) [DP:2260]

Blue Book [v 59 #2, June 1934] (pulp, cover by Henry Soulen) Cover depicts a blindfolded adventurer being vamped by a native girl; background has crowd of onlookers (one kneeling, apparently in some sort of worship); a mule; and a Spanish mission; setting Mexico. [DKL:18301]
  • ifc. · A Naturalist’s Sketch II—Kongoni and Lions · Walter J. Wilwerding · pi; African animals.
  • 4-25 · The Trouble with My Double [Part 1 of 4] · Horatio Winslow · sl; apparently a humorous fantasy of man whose naughty side splits into a seperate entity.
  • 26-34 · Men Can Beat the Sea · William Outerson · ss; Cape Horn windjammers.
  • 34-43 · The Bells of Ichicalli · Conrad Richter · ss; cover story; mission bells’ ringing quiets the superstitious mob and saves their life; it was an earthquake and not a supernatural occurence.
  • 44-51 · Hey, Rube! · Harold Burr · ss; boxing.
  • 52-71 · The Frog of Moscow [Frog] · Samuel Andrew Wood · ss; Frog is “inimitable vagabond Sasha,” who had previously appeared in “Red Terror”; here he saves an American spy and sees a new explosive destroyed.
  • 72-79 · Keep Out of Banks [Bugwine Breck] · Arthur K. Akers · ss; another allegedly humorous piece about Negro detective Bugwine Breck; heavy dialect.
  • 80-96 · The Day of the Dragon · Guy Endore · nv; well-known fantasy minor classic about the return of dragons to the earth.
  • 96-101 · The Radio Patrol · James Perley Hughes · ss; metropolitan police work.
  • 102-118 · Murder Island [Part 3 of 4] · Leland Jamieson · sl; air adventure in Caribbean; crooks and a hurricane.
  • 119-129 · The Tool Dresser · Frank Knox Hockman · ss; oil field story by “author of ’Boulder Catches a Torpedo’”.
  • · Prize Stories of Real Experience
  • 130-132 · The Dame with the Eggs · Mrs. Adelaide Bicknell · nf; eggs wind up on officer’s uniform, humor rather than danger this time.
  • 132-137 · The Voyage of the Monarch · Captain George Grant · nf; previous month had earlier installment, “On a Lee Shore,” this one is subtitled “The Runaway”; pt3 next month; autobiog of a captain.
  • 138-140 · The Bravest Thing · Harry Maddison · nf; rescue of girl in Boer War.
  • 140-142 · Storming the Hook · C. K. Sutherland · nf; tank warfare on the Somme.
  • 143-14? · The Buffalo Hunter · Frank Dalton · nf; by “one of the last survivors” of those days.

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