I'm sure there must have been some other air war covers on SHORT STORIES, but this one by Edgar F. Wittmack is the only one I recall coming across. It's a good one, too, very dramatic and colorful with that red sun in the background. There's a fine group of authors in this issue including Ernest Haycox, Hulbert Footner, Robert Carse, Tom Roan, Kenneth Perkins, Frank L. Packard, and Carson Mowre.
SHORT STORIES must have been the most instantly recognizable pulp with its Red Sun covers, and this issue sports a particularly good one by Edgar F. Wittmack. And a Pith Helmet Alert, to boot! The best-known authors inside are W.C. Tuttle and Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Henry Herbert Knibbs was pretty well-known in those days, I believe, but mostly forgotten now. Also in this issue are stories by Weed Dickinson (great name!), Homer King Gordon, Willard K. Smith, E.S. Pladwell, Russell Hays, Melvin Lostutter, and Larry Barreto, and if you're familiar with any of those guys and their work, you're ahead of me. But dang, that's a nice cover, and I'll bet most of the stories are pretty good, too.
We haven't had a pith helmet cover in a while. The one on this issue of ARGOSY ALLSTORY WEEKLY comes to us courtesy of Edgar Franklin Wittmack. As usual, there are some fine writers inside: Edgar Rice Burroughs (with an installment of the serial version of APACHE DEVIL), George F. Worts (with an installment of a Gillian Hazeltine serial), John Wilstach, Edgar Franklin, Charles L. Hall (his only credit in the Fictionmags Index), and the long-forgotten Robert Beith, Charles Divine, Carolyn MacDonald, and Douglas H. Woodworth. As usual with ARGOSY, the serials are the bane of a collector's/reader's existence, but if you were there to pick up the issues every week off the newsstand, I suppose it's a format that worked well at the time.
