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.