Saturday, February 15, 2020

Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Wild West Weekly, November 26, 1938


Waal, this ranny shore has plenty uh problems. Not only is he bein' shot at, he's about to fall off thet durned cliff right behind him, and them buzzards are jist a-circlin', waitin' to feast on his carcass an' peel the meat right off'n his bones!

You think I couldn't have sold to WILD WEST WEEKLY? All week long and twice on Saturday!

But I've wandered off into the weeds here. To get back to business, that cover, which I like a lot, is by the prolific and dependable H.W. Scott. Inside this issue are some prolific and dependable authors, as well: Walker A. Tompkins with an Arizona Thunderbolt story (I'm not familiar with the Arizona Thunderbolt, but what a great name for a Western pulp character), T.W. Ford with a Silver Kid yarn, C. William Harrison (a Devil's Deputy story), Samuel H. Nickels (a Hungry and Rusty story), and non-series stories from Chuck Martin and Dean Owen. No serials! That sounds like a really good issue to me.

3 comments:

Ed McBride said...

I reckon your spell checker didn't care much for that intro. You could have given W. C. Tuttle a run for his money.

James Reasoner said...

My spell checker has long since given up on me.

Anonymous said...

That’s a terrific, unusual cover. Just this side of ‘symbolic’. Love it!

-b.t.