tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post7406164061052151454..comments2024-03-28T18:21:09.285-05:00Comments on Rough Edges: Saturday Morning Western Pulp Revisited: Wild West Weekly, April 8, 1939James Reasonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-8871401098355119052013-01-21T17:40:32.382-06:002013-01-21T17:40:32.382-06:00Speaking of novels that were serialized as a serie...Speaking of novels that were serialized as a series of dtand-alone stories reminds me of Frank L. Packard's "The White Moll." It was a kind of mirror image of his popular Jimmie Dale series. The first two volumes of that series were plainly stand-alone shorts. The White Moll struck me as a tightly plotted continuous story. So imagine my surprise to find one of the chapters published in Blue Book as a stand-alone story. Now it was blurbed as another in the series of stories about the White Moll.. but the story was listed as a short story, and not a serial installment.Bebnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-32162189271128879482013-01-19T22:16:34.230-06:002013-01-19T22:16:34.230-06:00Laurie your post above just made me remember the s...Laurie your post above just made me remember the soldier's name who was the greatest WILD WEST WEEKLY fan and sadly was killed in action during WW II. His name was Bob Statton and he had just about all the over 2,000 issues of WWW. It was a weekly dime novel starting in 1902 and switched to the pulp format in 1927.<br /><br />Usually the so called letter hacks were SF fans but Stratton was a western fiction lover.<br /><br />I see I made some notes about Stratton, for instance the May 17, 1941 has a funny letter by him. Plus in the October 3, 1942 issue Stratton talks about his visit with Walker Tompkins.<br /><br />Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-29071928967629521772013-01-19T20:01:59.486-06:002013-01-19T20:01:59.486-06:00I'm glad you liked the issue, James. While Kid...I'm glad you liked the issue, James. While Kid Wolf wasn't my favorite of my grandfather's characters, he was hugely popular with the readers of the day and the letters to the editor were constantly asking for more Kid Wolf and Sonny Tabor (my favorite) stories.<br /><br />Walker, the boy you're talking about may have been a young man named Bob (I can't remember his last name right now.) He was a prolific writer of letters and my grandfather has a few that Bob wrote him and my father - I guess they kept up a pen pal correspondence for years. He was a very bright and very witty young man who really knew his pulps and especially the WWW heroes. It was very sad to learn that he had died during the war, but a fate all too common during those years.<br /><br />Oscar, Kid Wolf's signature weapon was that Bowie Knife that was kept in a secret sheath in his fringe coat, between his shoulder blades. He only pulled it out as a last resort and he always managed to lodge it in his enemy's throat. There were even letters written to the editor complaining when Kid hadn't used his knife in a while.Laurie Powershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10429604692700662254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-17901610962654633292013-01-19T15:32:46.507-06:002013-01-19T15:32:46.507-06:00The man on the cover looks like he's getting r...The man on the cover looks like he's getting ready to throw that knife, but then again, he may be just scratching an itch. Enjoyed your review of the issue.Oscar Casehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10328166606910469945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-9681011594876622582013-01-19T11:46:55.519-06:002013-01-19T11:46:55.519-06:00I have ran across a few old pulps but never this o...I have ran across a few old pulps but never this one. Thanks for the review and info--think this one would be fun to read.<br /><br />-N-Neil A. Waringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01806771906152936599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-86818631673952532582013-01-19T09:03:15.276-06:002013-01-19T09:03:15.276-06:00Where do you find the time? Good review. Thank y...Where do you find the time? Good review. Thank you for entertaining write-ups daily.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12168568381694506602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7527967.post-42412953572661097042013-01-19T08:08:08.225-06:002013-01-19T08:08:08.225-06:00The current issue of BLOOD N THUNDER(#35) has a lo...The current issue of BLOOD N THUNDER(#35) has a long article on WILD WEST WEEKLY dealing with the correspondence between author Paul Powers and editor Ron Oliphant. Copies are available from Murania Press website or amazon.com.<br /><br />I used to have a couple hundred issues of WILD WEST WEEKLY but I sold them to concentrate on other pulp titles. I remember one issue had an announcement of one of the readers being killed in action during World War II. It seems this young soldier had a complete set of the dime novel and pulp issues. I've often wondered what his parents did with the collection.Walker Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16089880902426182100noreply@blogger.com