Since LEADING WESTERN was published by Trojan, making it a Spicy Pulp at least by association, you'd expect the covers to have attractive women on them, and the March 1946 issue is no exception. I don't know who painted this cover, but if I had to guess, I'd say H.W. Scott. The big galoot with the dangling quirly looks like his work. Inside this issue, the only author you've likely heard of is Giff Cheshire, whose story made the cover. The other writers on hand are Adolph Regli, Frank D. Compagnon, Henry Norton, and Mark Lish. Norton and Lish sound vaguely familiar to me, the other two not at all. I don't own this issue and wouldn't want to venture a guess as to its quality, but the cover is okay.
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Y'know, I'm almost sixty and I never heard or saw the word "quirly" before in my life - and I spent a distressing amount of my those six decades around nicotine junkies who rolled their own.
The fact that it can also act as a synonym for "curly" makes it a heck of a lot more useful to have added to my vocabulary. Will have to work that one into conversation more often.
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