This issue of ADVENTURE TALES includes 3 stories by H. Bedford-Jones ("Mustered Out " "The Badman's Brand " and "Surprise in Sulphur Springs") plus "The Fugitive Statue " by Vincent Starrett (featuring detective Jimmy Lavender), "Miracle " by John D. Swain, "The Devil's Heirloom " by Anthony M. Rud, "The Tapir " by Arthur O. Friel " "Thubway Tham's Dog " by Johnston McCulley, "Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate " by Nelson S. Bond, and "Payable to Bearer " a crime novelet by Talbot Mundy. Poetry by Avram Davidson, Poul Anderson, Clark Ashton Smith, and Fritz Leiber.