A striking and unusual cover by Norman Saunders graces this issue of one of my favorite Western pulps, WILD WEST WEEKLY. The line-up of authors and stories inside is outstanding, too, leading off with a Sonny Tabor yarn by Paul S. Powers writing as Ward M. Stevens. Also in this issue are stories by Walker A. Tompkins, Allan R. Bosworth, Chuck Martin, Lee Bond, and Ralph Yergen.
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Sunny Tabor or Kid Wolf stories always are high points of WWW. However, the issues I have read are generally enjoyable, lots of good stuff
I've noticed that around this period in the late thirties, WILD WEST WEEKLY and WESTERN STORY both started to use symbolic and unusual covers. The experiment only lasted a year or so but since both magazines were weekly, there were many covers showing oddball scenes and unusual angles like a scene pictured from the floor or ceiling level, etc.
I liked these sort of bizarre covers like the one pictured above but most western readers wanted the standard shoot 'em up formula cover, so the experiment failed and the magazines returned to same old scenes.
Walker, I like those covers too.
Seems like most of the pulp publishers experimented with their covers from time to time. I like the offbeat covers, too.
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