Spicy Western, March 1938

Here's one I like. I don't actually own any issues of SPICY WESTERN, but I have a few cover scans. The story in this issue, "Hard to Kill" by James A. Lawson, is probably one of a series featuring a character named Dallas Duane, who works as a troubleshooter for an oil company. Despite the fact that the series was published mostly in SPICY WESTERN (and a few other Western pulps), the stories are actually mysteries. Just imagine Dan Turner working in rough West Texas oil boom towns in the Thirties, and you've got the Dallas Duane series. Some of them were reprinted recently in chapbook format by Tom Roberts of Black Dog Books, and I highly recommend that volume. Great fun.