tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post9194071262620514838..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Western Story, January 25, 1941James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-84878136245075021942014-01-12T01:57:25.005-06:002014-01-12T01:57:25.005-06:00Back in the 1800s the city with the most phones, a...Back in the 1800s the city with the most phones, after New York, was Deadwood, South Dakota.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-38802203533258138742014-01-11T09:06:24.817-06:002014-01-11T09:06:24.817-06:00Even in 1941 WESTERN STORY was publishing some exc...Even in 1941 WESTERN STORY was publishing some excellent western fiction and still maintaining a weekly schedule. In fact the magazine had been weekly at this point for about 20 years and the circulation was still high for a pulp title. Not as high as the peak in the 1920's which some say reached 400,000 an issue, but still pretty good.<br /><br />All this was soon to change as the war time paper restrictions caused Street & Smith to change to the digest format in 1943. This was also the year that WESTERN STORY stopped weekly publication. <br /><br />Despite the smaller, less impressive size, the magazine continued to do well enough as a digest monthly until the bloodiest day in pulp history in 1949. Street & Smith made the decision to kill all their pulps except for ASTOUNDING. <br /><br />Popular Publications revived WESTERN STORY a couple years later but the pulp era was over and the end was near. <br /><br />Despite a brief boom of digest SF and crime fiction magazines, the day of the all fiction magazines was just about over. We are now down to just 5 fiction digests:<br /><br />F & SF, ASIMOV'S, ANALOG, EQMM, and AHMM. Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com