I'm not a big fan of artist Fred Craft, but I'll admit that his cover for this early issue of LARIAT STORY MAGAZINE is pretty dynamic. And the line-up of authors in this issue can't be beat: Walt Coburn, Eugene Cunningham, Tom Roan, Richard Wormser, James P. Olsen, C.K. Shaw, Archie Joscelyn, and house-name John Starr. Lots of good reading there, I'll bet.
Richard Wormser! He had a long career from the pulps to hardcover and paperback, including a mid-60s WILD WILD WEST novelisation for Signet and two (I think) crime novels for Fawcett Gold Medal in the early '70s, "by the publisher of THE GODFATHER."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I knew Wormser as a paperbacker. I bought that WILD WILD WEST book brand-new off the spinner rack at Lester's Pharmacy. I also picked up his novelization of Hitchcock's TORN CURTAIN somewhere and read it, then in the Eighties read several of his Gold Medals that Bill Crider recommended to me. I was surprised when I realized he'd had such a long and prolific career as a pulpster, going all the way back to 1932. He had a good, solid 40 year career.
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