The guy with the machine gun on the cover of this one looks a little like John Wayne to me. Unfortunately, the girl's not doing much for that pith helmet. But the fiction inside looks good: stories by Albert Richard Wetjen, George Bruce, and Captain Dingle, all of them veteran action storytellers. Overall this seems a little sedate for a Fiction House pulp, but I'll bet it was fairly entertaining.
Sorry to be critical, but "Captain Dingle" is just NOT the right type of name for a he-man action tale storyteller.
ReplyDeleteThe same thought has crossed my mind. I've never actually read anything by Captain Dingle that I recall, but I have the collection of his stories that Black Dog Books published a year or so ago.
ReplyDeleteNo one could look too good in a pith helmet, I think.
ReplyDeleteA. E. Dingle was his name and while his name - today - sounds like some kind of joke, he was a top-notch author. He really knew the sea. While I haven't read the Black Dog Books collection I have read others of his stories and assure you that you can't go wrong reading him
ReplyDeleteBrian Earl Brown
Yes, I second Brian's comment about A.E. Dingle. I've read many of his sea stories in ADVENTURE, ARGOSY, SHORT STORIES, etc. Back then I guess Captain Dingle did not sound as funny as nowadays.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can read about him here.
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