tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post365975983876859088..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Saturday Morning Western Pulp: Popular Western, March 1937James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-58383067451822634242011-05-29T10:18:48.369-05:002011-05-29T10:18:48.369-05:00Rich,
It's PAINTED POST GUNPLAY, published und...Rich,<br />It's PAINTED POST GUNPLAY, published under the Tom Gunn pseudonym. Pocket Books did at least three more books in the series. This one is copyright 1937 by Syl McDowell. I think the novels predate the pulp series. I'll post the cover.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-78344535137761558392011-05-28T11:00:52.273-05:002011-05-28T11:00:52.273-05:00What's the title of the Blue Steele Pocket Boo...What's the title of the Blue Steele Pocket Book? Sounds like something to add to the stack.Richard Proschhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08314680709014254183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-31082387127568543722011-05-28T10:36:16.888-05:002011-05-28T10:36:16.888-05:00Walker,
I agree with you overall about the quality...Walker,<br />I agree with you overall about the quality of the fiction in the Thrilling Group. I like the series characters in their Western pulps -- Jim Hatfield, the Rio Kid, etc. -- but with a few exceptions the back-up stories are pretty average. However, once TEXAS RANGERS was the only one of the Westerns in the Thrilling Group left, I think the quality of the fiction goes up considerably. This was in the mid-to-late Fifties, and I suspect it's because all the Street & Smith and Popular Publications pulps (except for RANCH ROMANCES) were gone by then. TEXAS RANGERS was probably the best of the remaining markets, and so it got the best submissions.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-68063522075501993272011-05-28T10:11:09.163-05:002011-05-28T10:11:09.163-05:00Though there are exceptions, I usually have a prob...Though there are exceptions, I usually have a problem when I read the fiction in THRILLING WESTERN and POPULAR WESTERN. I suspect they did not pay good word rates and thus the best western fiction appeared in WESTERN STORY, SHORT STORIES, ADVENTURE, STAR WESTERN and DIME WESTERN, etc.<br /><br />I've found this to carry over even with the detective pulps like THRILLING DETECTIVE and POPULAR DETECTIVE. They simply were not competitive with BLACK MASK, DIME DETECTIVE, DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com