Rough Edges

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my brittle, battered, and tattered copy in the scan. The dramatic, eye-catching cover, a...

For more than twenty years, James J. Griffin has been turning out top-notch traditional Western novels and contemporary Western thrillers, o...

This issue of THRILLING RANCH STORIES, which I don't own, sports a nice action-packed cover. I don't know the artist. There are stor...

This was the final issue of THRILLING ADVENTURES. The magazine went out with a good one, starting with that action-packed cover. There's...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my copy in the scan. I think the cover may be by George Rozen, but I’m far from sure abo...

This issue of the iconic Western pulp WESTERN STORY sports a particularly striking cover by Norman Saunders. And it's an all-star issue ...

Okay, did our stalwart hero have that six-gun with him in the diving suit, or was it waiting for him when he climbed back aboard the boat? W...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. That’s my copy in the scan. The cover is by Sam Cherry, of course. The Jim Hatfield story in th...

This is a pulp that I own and read recently. I don’t have access to a scanner at the moment, so I took a picture of my copy instead, and tha...

This is an issue of ARGOSY that I've read (well, probably not the serial installments), but it was so many years ago I don't remembe...

This cover is by H.W. Wessolowski, best remembered for his science fiction pulp covers, usually billed as Wesso or H.W. Wesso. But he did a ...

I'm pretty sure I've never read an issue of THRILLING RANCH STORIES. It generally had pretty good covers, though, like this one, whi...

A great cover by A. Leslie Ross on this issue of POPULAR WESTERN, and by coincidence, the lead novel is by A. Leslie Scott, writing under hi...

The red and yellow color scheme that was so common on Western pulps made it onto covers in other pulp genres as well, for example this issue...

I don't know the artist (Richard Lyon, maybe?), but this is an eye-catching cover on this issue of THRILLING ADVENTURES. Nor am I famili...

Looks like roulette was just as dangerous in the Old West as playing poker, at least according to the cover on this issue of THRILLING WESTE...

I wrote about the paperback reprint of the lead novel in this pulp for my Forgotten Books post yesterday, so here's the cover of the ori...

Today is the 22 nd anniversary of the founding of the WesternPulps email group (more about that later), so I wanted to feature a novel publ...

I always like reading about authors, especially pulp authors, so PULPWOOD DAYS, VOLUME 2: LIVES OF THE PULP WRITERS is targeted right ...

This is the pulp in which "Ghost Mine Gold", the Masked Rider novel featured in yesterday's Forgotten Books post, first app...