LEADING WESTERN was a pulp from Trojan Publishing, the publisher of the Spicy and Speed lines, as you can probably tell from the cover. This looks like a decent issue with stories by J. Edward Leithead (one of my favorites), the ubiquitous Larry A. Harris, and Bryce Walton (better known for his science fiction), among others whose names are unfamiliar to me.
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I see they were experimenting with comics in the magazine. But they were crudely drawn and never caught on with the readers. Even the sexier strips in the Spicy's were not impressive.
Except, of course, for the wonderful Dan Turner strips, scripted by Bellem, that ran for years in Hollywood Detective. I enjoyed those quite a bit.
Some of the Dan Turner comic strips have been reprinted in THE BEST OF DAN TURNER, HOLLYWOOD DETECTIVE. Also I see there is a Sally The Sleuth collection of strips from SPICY DETECTIVE.
I've been plenty of Walton in AHMM, some in Manhunt, Off Beat and Suspect Magazines.
RJR
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