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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.

Blue Book [v 59 #3, July 1934] ed. Donald Kennicott (The McCall Company, 15¢, 144pp, pulp, cover by Joseph Chernoweth) [DG]

Blue Book [v 59 #4, August 1934] ed. Donald Kennicott (The McCall Company, 15¢, 144pp, pulp, cover by Henry J. Soulen) [DG]

Blue Book [v 59 #6, October 1934] (15¢, pulp, cover by Joseph Chenoweth) Information from EBAY auction.

Blue Book [v 60 #1, November 1934] (pulp, cover by Henry Soulen) [DKL]

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