A great Norman Saunders cover and stories by H.A. DeRosso, Giles A. Lutz, Frank Castle, and Roe Richmond. It may have been late in the pulp era, and WESTERN NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES may have been considered a salvage market, but this looks like a knockout issue anyway.
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Contraction in the market forcing good work into the magazine? At least there were paperbacks to be a secondary market for the work by then...
WESTERN STORY and WILD WEST WEEKLY were gone by then, but most of the other Western pulps were still around in 1951, even though their circulation was dropping and the big contraction in the market was only a few years away. I think some of the so-called salvage markets actually got first look at some stories because the authors liked working with them and could be fairly certain of a sale.
Just picked up some western short stories.
Never heard the term "big contraction in the market." So interesting how history keeps repeating itself. Or Time Marches On. Or some such. That's what happened(is happening) in the shift from mass market paperbacks to digital.
Perhaps there was a contraction in the market and expansion (or enhancement) of the talent pool simultaneously, because the lineups in Stadium pulps from the Fifties hardly look second-rate. I only own three from that outfit but I want to get more.
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