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This is the first issue of a short-lived Western pulp from Ace. Four issues were published under this title, plus a dozen more as VARIETY WESTERN and ALL-NOVEL WESTERN. Calling this one SUPER WESTERN might have been pulp hyperbole, but it actually had pretty good credentials, starting with a cover by Norman Saunders. Inside are stories by Tom Roan, Norrell Gregory, Joe Archibald, W.H.B. Kent, forgotten pulpster Glenn A. Conner, and house-name Cliff Howe. Not quite super, maybe, but no publisher was going to put out a pulp called PROBABLY PRETTY GOOD WESTERN . . . even though that's what it was.
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Super Western replaced Golden West in Ace's lineup.
Though the package looked nice, it was a bottom end market, paying 1/2 a cent a word and up at a time when Dime Western was 1 cent a word and up. Ace's own Western Aces paid 1 cent a word and up; the better work was published there.
Probably won't hurt to read if you find a copy cheap. Though not much chance of that, it seems.
Definitely a salvage market, then. I'm sure some good stories slipped through, but probably not that many.
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