Top Notch - September, 1935 "Medals for Mahoney", "The Sky Devil" & "Buckley Plays a Hunch"
- The Ultimate Adventure · Charles Willard Diffin
- Medals for Mahoney · Ken Martin AKA L. Ron Hubbard
- Mule Skinner’s Reputation · Paul Randell Morrison
- The Sky Devil · L. Ron Hubbard
- Spy in Scarlet · James H. S. Moynahan
- The Wonder Book · William Merriam Rouse
- The Curse of Atlantis · Hal Field Leslie
- Buckley Plays a Hunch · Bernard Hubbel AKA L. Ron Hubbard
- The Making of Sailor Jack · Nelson S. Bond
- Easy Money · James Warner
- Rapiers Over the Mantel · Arvid Carlson
Book price: $80 - $200 - $400
This is a significant issue for a Hubbard collector since it contains three stories by L. Ron Hubbard. There are other pulps with two L. Ron Hubbard stories but this is the only issue which contains three stories.
Top Notch - October, 1935 "Wind-Gone-Mad"
- Sumpitan · Carl Jacobi
- Wind-Gone-Mad · L. Ron Hubbard
- The Harbor Slob · Duncan Underhill
- Death by Arrangement · Captain Norman Dewhurst
- Poor Shot · Paul Randell Morrison
- The Green Gorgon · Hugh B. Cave
- Debt to Death · Samuel Taylor
- Black Barbecue · Earl W. Scott
Book price: $50 - $125 - $250
This story features the first appearance of the character Fen-Fen AKA Wind Gone Mad. This same character is in L. Ron Hubbard's story "The Hurricane’s Roar" featured in Adventure Novels and Short Stories - April 1939. This is Ron's only "Masked Hero" serial character.
Top Notch - November, 1935 "Five Mex for a Million" & "The Adventure of 'X"
- Five Mex for a Million · L. Ron Hubbard
- The Death Pit · Ben Judson
- The Adventure of “X” · Ken Martin AKA L. Ron Hubbard
- Lead Shakers · James P. Olsen
- Shooting Star · George Armin Shaftel
- The Golden Snake · Howard R. Marsh
- The Pointing Finger · Harry McCormick
- Trade Whiskey · Captain Lee Fredericks
- Bullets at Crooked Creek · Avin H. Johnston
- Rest Cure · Reuben Jennings Shay
Book price: $50 - $125 - $250
This is a good issue to have since it contains two Hubbard stories. One of them being the cover story.
Top Notch - January, 1936 "Trick Soldier"
- Wings of the Dragon · Thom Ditton
- One House in Jamrud · Nat Schachner
- Pirates' Bane · Neil Martin
- Trick Soldier · L. Ron Hubbard
- Champion! · Samuel Taylor
- Finger Nails · Kerry Wood
- Trapper Of Men · Monte Murphy
- The Magic Benaga · W. W. Wellman
- Joker's High · Edward J. Tucker
Book price: $50 - $125 - $250
Top Notch - February, 1936 "Red Sand"
- Precipice · Arthur J. Burks
- River Boss · Robert H. Leitfred
- The Last Jump · Samuel Taylor
- Man Size! · Paul Randell Morrison
- Assassins of the Balkans · Major George Fielding Eliot
- Jumbo Knowles · William Merriam Rouse
- The Common Bond · Edmond du Perrier
- Red Sand · Kurt von Rachen AKA L. Ron Hubbard
- White Man’s Justice · Hal Firanze
Book price: $50 - $125 - $250
See the Pen Names section for an anecdote regarding the Kurt von Rachen pen name.
Top Notch - December, 1936 "Fifty-fifty O'Brian"
- The Thing on the Afterdeck · Alexander M. Phillips
- Fifty-fifty O’Brien · L. Ron Hubbard
- Bumbo Wrastled Human Nature · William Merriam Rouse
- Tears of the Dragon · Elmer Meadows & Mildred Masterson
- Rod and Gun News · Donald Stillman
- Sumatra · Bassett Morgan
- Happy Landings · J. Searle Dawley
- Escape · L. R. Sherman
- Death’s Black Spectacles · Brahm Pieter
Book price: $50 - $125 - $250