I don't own this issue of FAMOUS WESTERN, so I haven't read it. But I like the cover, which is credited on the Fictionmags Index to someone named Cooper, who did only a couple of pulp covers and a few interior illustrations. It has a nice dramatic look to it, though, and I like the color scheme. Inside are stories by Barry Cord (Peter Germano), Archie Joscelyn, Lee Floren, Zachary Strong (who was usually E.B. Mann), and lesser-known names Costa Carousso, Carleton Carr, and Steve Lynch. Maybe not the strongest lineup, but Germano, Mann, and Joscelyn are always worth reading, and Floren sometimes is. Don't know about the other guys.
I like to think that if I'd been around during the pulp era, I could have written for LARIAT STORY MAGAZINE. This issue features another dynamic cover by Allen Anderson. Inside are stories by some top pros: William Heuman, W.T. Ballard, and Laurence Donovan, plus lesser-known but still prolific Al Storm, H. Frederic Young, and Costa Carousso. The lead novella is by William J. Hodgson, and the odd thing about that is that it's his only story listed in the Fictionmags Index. I'm not sure why a writer would get cover-featured with his first (and apparently only) story, but that happened some in the pulps. Or maybe Hodgson was actually a pseudonym for somebody else in that issue. Heuman, Ballard, and Donovan wrote a lot, under many different names. Likely we'll never know, but I always find these questions intriguing.
