Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: Ten Detective Aces, November 1942

For some reason, I've always liked those TEN DETECTIVE ACES covers with the red borders around them. It's a nice distinctive look. And I always love Norman Saunders covers. This one is no exception. Great action and details and that's a really good-looking woman. The stories inside are by some authors who ain't half-bad, either: Frederick C. Davis, Walker A. Tompkins, Norman A. Daniels, Harold Q. Masur, Joe Archibald, Lee E. Well, Stuart Friedman, plus a couple I hadn't heard of, Ken Kessler and Jimmy O'Brien, plus house name Guy Fleming. A couple of those authors, Tompkins and Wells, are best known as Western writers, but Davis and Archibald wrote quite a few Westerns, too, and Daniels did a few.

Saturday Morning Western Pulp: .44 Western Magazine, September 1944

I always think of Sam Cherry as doing covers for the various Thrilling Group Western pulps, but he did quite a few for Popular Publications as well, including this one on the September 1944 issue of .44 WESTERN MAGAZINE featuring a dynamic action scene. This particular issue doesn't have an abundance of familiar names inside. Barry Cord (Peter Germano), Frank C. Robertson, and John A. Saxon are the best known. The other authors, who had decent careers but are pretty much forgotten, are James Shaffer, Le Roy Boyd, Stuart Friedman, and Melvin W. Holt.