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The Black Mask

1920 · 136 pages

A woman in a silk nightgown and copper-red wrap reaches toward a lamp on a side table, her face turned in alarm toward two masked figures lurking at the curtains — one on each flank, their black domino masks echoing the title's small logo above. The cover-line reads *A Magazine of Mystery, Romance and Adventure*, and the painted scene delivers exactly that contract: imperiled femininity, anonymous threat, a domestic space turned dangerous. Priced at twenty cents and printed on cheap wood-pulp stock, *Black Mask* launched in 1920 as a general-fiction pulp before editors steered it toward the hardboiled crime voice — Hammett, Chandler — that would define American noir and, by direct inheritance, the crime comic. The cover artist is unidentified here.

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Published magazine collection; source: bm_1920_11

Preserved library edition. Publication metadata retained from the original collection.