From its first issue, Manhunt declared itself different.
For one thing, all the stories were claimed to be new and remained that way until near the end.
And many of the early contributors were familiar names from hardcover publishing, including William Irish (a.
Cornell Woolrich), Kenneth Millar (as himself and as John Ross Macdonald), Eleazar Lipsky, Bruno Fischer, Craig Rice, Harold Q.
Masur, Leslie Charteris, William Lindsay Gresham, Henry Kane,.