Black Book Detective ('39 - '53)

I do not have images of all the BBS covers in which the Black Bat appears but what I do have is displayed in order of release.

The text that appears under some of the books is either from that book's table of contents or it is teaser material included in the previous issue to advertise the current one. 

July 1939

Sept 1939

Nov 1939

January 1940

March 1940

May 1940

July 1940

When murders runs rife - and gruesome hunchback killers freeze a city's life in terror - the Bat and his aides pierce crime's hideous night to meet a deadly challenge!
Sept 1940

Tony Quinn battles to smash a criminal crew of traitors aligned in a deadly fifth column in The Black Bat and The Trojan Horse
Nov. 1940

January 1941

March 1941

May 1941

July 1941

Sept. 1941

Nov 1941

January 1942

March 1942

May 1942

July 1942

Ruin stalks a newspaper when a sinister prophet predicts murder before it happens! 
September 1942

Nov 1942

The Seventh Column
Jan 1943

Mar 1943

May 1943

Summer 1943

Fall 1943

Winter 1944

Spring 1944

Summer 1944

Tony Quinn and his loyal aides march into battle against a sinister crew of home front enemies whose despicable crimes of sabotage and treachery call for swift and sure punishment!
Fall 1944

Tony Quinn, nemesis of evil, clears up a shadowy conspiracy of grim crime and corruption in The Skeleton's Secret.
Winter 1945

Spring 1945

Summer 1945



Fall 1945



A returning wanderer, a substitute corpse. a faithless girl, a vague-minded musician and a murdered man are all part of the grim jigsaw of crime that Tony Quinn must put together! 
Winter 1946

Spring 1946

The Black Bat smashes into the heart of a gripping mystery when a sinister gang dedicated to death plans its most horrifying series of lethal crimes! 
Summer 1946

Fall 1946

February 1947

April 1947

June 1947

August 1947

October 1947

December 1947

February 1948

April 1948

When a criminal schemes to weld the underworld into a giant combine for plunder, the Black Bat faces a sinister challenge!
June 1948

September 1948

November 1948

January 1949

March 1949

May 1949

Summer 1949

Fall 1949

Tony Quinn, nemesis of crime who is known as the Black Bat, probes the strange mystery of a suicide that did not take - and its alarming aftermath of widespread violence and disaster!
Winter 1950

Spring 1950

Summer 1950

Fall 1950

Winter 1951



Spring 1951

Winter 1952