Saturday, November 05, 2011

Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Wild Western Novels, January 1936

No, not WILD WEST WEEKLY, which was also a fine Western pulp magazine. WILD WESTERN NOVELS was part of the Red Star group. I don't know how many issues there were, but this is the first one. That's a pretty bland cover, but what a line-up of authors: Clarence E. Mulford (with a story about Hopalong Cassidy and the rest of the Bar 20 crew), Harry Sinclair Drago, Alan LeMay (author of THE SEARCHERS, of course, but a prolific pulpster long before that), and pulp veterans Stephen Payne and Jack Bertin. I would have been happy to read it, that's for sure.
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6 comments:

Dave Hardy said...

I've got Drago's book, The Great RAnge Wars, on my shelf of Western history. I pull it down and consult it when I want to figure out some detail of feuding history.

9:08 AM, November 05, 2011
James Reasoner said...

Yeah, though primarily a fictioneer, Drago wrote some excellent Western non-fiction later on in his career, much like Eugene Cunningham and William MacLeod Raine.

10:10 AM, November 05, 2011
Walker Martin said...

The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps lists only one issue for this title so it was a one shot.

I'm just back from the Adenturecon pulp show in Bordentown NJ. There were alot of western pulps for sale on the 45 tables, most very inexpensive. I need very few WESTERN STORY magazines but I actually found an issue that I still need from 1921.

7:20 PM, November 05, 2011
James Reasoner said...

Thanks for that info, Walker. I'm glad you found something you needed at the show.

10:40 PM, November 05, 2011
Ron Scheer said...

Another good one, James. Thanks.

1:36 PM, November 06, 2011
beb said...

I also looked into the Adventure House Guide and while they say onw issue is known to exist they also say more are possible. More important, the issue they know to exist is the March 1936 issue wghile you have the January, 1936 issue. So not a one-shot...

12:24 PM, November 07, 2011

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