This cover has several of the things I love about Western pulp covers: a pretty girl, some action (there's gunsmoke coming from the muzzle of the cowboy's revolver), and great story titles. I want to read "Fugitive From Boothill's Ghost Legion". Better yet, I want to write that story! There are plenty of great authors in this issue of DIME WESTERN: Walt Coburn, Harry F. Olmsted, and Ray Nafziger are three of the top Western pulpsters, and backing them up are old pros Rolland Lynch, John G. Pearsol, and Lloyd Eric Reeve. I don't know the cover artist for sure, but I think it's Tom Lovell.
Also, I wanted to mention that I got curious and looked back to see if I could find when I started this series of posts. I had posted Western pulps covers before, but as far as I can tell, the first one that was called Saturday Morning Western Pulp was on February 5, 2011. I didn't realize I'd been doing it for that long. Since February 5 was last Wednesday, I'm going to count this as the ninth anniversary post. I've missed a weekend here and there, and it's possible I could have inadvertently posted the same cover more than once, but even so I figure I've posted more than 450 Western pulp covers in this series. Maybe I can remember and come up with a special tenth anniversary post next year, if I'm still at it (which I plan to be).
Oh, and the first Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp was June 10, 2012. I plan to mark that occasion, too.
5 comments:
The girl seems to have auburn rather than red hair. Still I kept looking for the old geezer.
I begin every Saturday morning with a visit to Rough Edges and there could not be a more delightful way to start the weekend. Thanks for the nine wonderful years of western pulp covers, James.
Jim Meals
‘Fugitives From Boot Hill’s Ghost Legion’ IS a great title. Without even looking at the cover you just KNOW it was published in a Popular Publications pulp. It doesn’t even have the word ’Scourge’’ in it, and STILL sounds unmistakably like a Popular story title!
- b.t.
The Fiction House pulps, LARIAT STORY and FRONTIER STORIES, have some great titles, too, but I think the ones from Popular generally were better.
Yep, PLANET and JUNGLE too. ‘The Beast-Jewel of Mars’ — ‘Wanderers of the Wolf Moon’ — ‘Sword of the Seven Suns’ — ‘Slave Brides for the Dawn Men’ — ‘Huntress of the Hell-Pack’ — ‘Voodoo Slaves for the Devil’s Daughter’ — what red-blooded American boy WOULDN’T plunk down a couple of dimes to read those stories?
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