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Cover by Jon Arfstrom. Digest size.
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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 "He Didn't Like Cats" by L. Ron Hubbard.
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Cover by Modest Stein. Features "Overthrow" by Cleve Cartmill.
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"The Sky Serpent Flies Again" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Includes "The Devil's Paymaster" by Maxwell Grant
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Cover by Ed Emsh. Includes "The Naked Sky" by James E. Gunn.
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"Squadron of the Damned" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Includes "The Mind Magnet" by Paul Ernst.
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Includes "The Quest of Qui" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "Three Gentlemen In Black" by August W. Derleth.
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Includes "The Shadow Men" by A. E. Van Vogt.
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Includes "The Day Of The Cloud" by Ross Rocklynne.
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Cover by Rogers. Includes "Forces Must Balance!" by Manly Wade Wellman.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "Hordes Of The Red Butcher" by Grant Stockbridge.
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Includes "Mystery On Happy Bones" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Includes "The Sign Of Zorro" by Johnston McCulley.
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Includes "Blow Cold, Blow Hot" by Frederick C. Davis.
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Cover by Boris Dolgov. Includes "Mr. George" by August Derleth.
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Cover by A. R. Tilburne. Includes "Black Barter" by Robert Bloch.
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Features "Dictator of Crime" by Maxwell Grant.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "The Druidic Doom" by Robert Bloch.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "The Yellow Scourge" by Curtis Steele.
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Features "Murder Mansion" by Maxwell Grant.
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Cover by A. R. Tilburne. Includes "The Valley Of The Assassins" by Edmond Hamilton.
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Cover by Gilmore. Includes "Cold" by Nat Schachner.
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"The Mystery of the Dragon's Shadow" by Donald E. Keyhoe.
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Includes "Master of the Walking Dead" by Joseph J. Millard
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"Death to the Hawks of War" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover by Belarski. Includes "The Ringer" by Charles Rice McDowell.
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Cover by F. Tinsley. Includes "Death Rides The Sky" by George L. Eaton.
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Includes "The Hag Seleen" by Theodore Sturgeon & James H. Beard.
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Final issue as Captain Satan; continues as Strange Detective Mysteries.
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Cover by H. W. Wesso. Includes "The Shadow In The Sky" by August W. Derleth.
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Includes "Time Column" by Malcolm Jameson.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "The Hour Of The Dragon" by Robert E. Howard.
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Includes "The Suicide Battalion" by Curtis Steele.
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Cover by Virgil Finlay. Includes "The Luck Of Ignatz" by Lester del Rey.
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"Patrol of the Iron Scourge" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Cover by Alex Schomburg. Includes "The Hellflower" by George O. Smith.
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Includes "The Seal Of Sin" by Henry Kuttner.
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Includes "The Jumper" by Theodore Sturgeon.
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Includes Williamson, Wellman.
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"Wings of the Gray Phantom" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Includes "The Dawn-Seekers" by Frederick C. Painton.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "The Jest Of Droom Avista" by Henry Kuttner.
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Two alternate covers are known to exist.
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Cover by Walter Baumhofer. Includes "The Spider Strikes" by R. T. M. Scott.
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Cover by C. Meimer. Includes "You Too, Can Be An Army Aviator" by Charles Edward Chapel.
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Including "Curse Of The Calaboose Brand" by J. Edward Leithead.
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Includes "The Crime Laboratory" by Grant Stockbridge.
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Formerly Detective Mystery.
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Cover by John Howitt. Includes "Invasion Of The Crimson Death Cult" by Curtis Steele.
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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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Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Includes "The Star Of Dread" by Brett Sterling.
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Cover by Margaret Brundage. Includes "Lansing's Luxury" by August Derleth.
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Includes "The Mathematics Of Magic" by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt.
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Cover by Rogers. Includes "Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov.
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Includes "The Devil's Playground" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Cover by Earle K. Bergey. Includes "A Million Years To Conquer" by Henry Kuttner.
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Full length novel: "Fight Or Die" by James M. Calvert, Jr.
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Includes "Miracle Of The Golden Princess" by HBedford-Jones.
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Includes "Speak For Yourself" by John Quincy.
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Cover by Rudolph Belarski. Includes short novel "Sons Of The Tall Timber" by Frank R. Pierce.
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Features "Mystery Island" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Includes "The Perilous Pearl" by H. Bedford-Jones.
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Includes "Hang Him High" by Norbert Davis.
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Features "The Time Terror" by Kenneth Robeson.
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"The Black Wings of the Raven" by Robert J. Hogan.
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Includes "The Dagger In The Sky" by Kenneth Robeson.
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Includes "Always Comes Evening" by R.E. Howard.
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"The Damned Will Fly Again" by Robert J. Hogan.
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