Nearly all of the DIME WESTERN covers from this era feature the same redheaded girl, usually angry and toting a gun. With covers like this, you can understand why she was mad. Tied to a cactus? That's just not right. You can't go wrong, though, with the authors in this issue: Walt Coburn, Harry F. Olmsted (twice, once as himself and once as Bart Cassidy with a Tensleep Maxon story), E.B. Mann (with a Whistler novelette), Miles Overholt, and Malcolm Reiss, who's probably better remembered as an editor for Fiction House but who turned out a decent number of pulp stories himself.
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What a coincidence! I just bought a copy of this issue today at Pulp AdventureCon in New Jersey!
James:
Malcolm Reiss turned out a “decent number of pulp stories” or a “number of decent pulp stories”? :)
I wonder if the cover was by Walter Baumnhofer. It kinda looks like him, in that intentionally “stripped down” style he adopted for his Popular covers, at Street and Smith’s request (or so the story goes).
Ed:
I’m jealous. I’ve never been to a Con dedicated to just pulps, but have always wanted to. Someday….
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Can’t believe I mis-spelled “Baumhofer”. Serves me right for typing so fast.
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Good question about Reiss's work. I don't recall ever reading anything by him, so I can't really say how good a writer he was. He had a good long run as an editor, but there have been plenty of good editors who weren't necessarily good writers.
Oh, and the hat does look like a Baumhofer hat.
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