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Thrilling Western (pulp) 1945 September

Thrilling Western – Sep 1945 Thrilling Western (1945 September) features an action cover featuring a colorful cowboy riding a horse while twisting and firing his six-gun at someone pursuing him while...

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THE NIGHT WAS MADE FOR MURDER by Bevis Winter (the 5th Steve Craig thriller)

The Night Was Made for Murder is the fifth (of 9) Steve Craig private-eye thrillers published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd. This appeared in 1957. The blurb on the jacket reads: “Elliot Bord was murdered on...

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Gun Smoke on the Plains by Zed Kelly

Following the second world war, Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd. contracted various Canadian publishers to send them digest-paperbacks and comics, etc. The final product in many cases equated to a...

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PHANTOM [Vol. 1 No. 3, June 1957] a weird stories magazine

The third issue of Phantom features a release date of June 1957 and has cover art by R.W.S. (Ronald W. Smethurst). Once again no editor is noted but we can assume it is Leslie Syddall. This is the...

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NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY by Charles Willeford (Newsstand Library, 1962)

Published by Newsstand Library in 1962 with good girl art cover illustration by Robert Bonfils, No Experience Necessary was “mostly” written by Charles Willeford. Collectors of Willeford already know...

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Blonde Genius by J. T. Edson & Peter Clawson (UK: Transworld Publishers /...

Blonde Genius is a one-off mass market paperback novel written by J. T. Edson and Peter Clawson. Published in 1973 by Transworld Publishers Ltd. via their Corgi Books line, it features a blonde...

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Riders of the Badlands by Thomas P. Kelley

During the postwar 1940s, Canadian pulp fiction writer Thomas P. Kelley was contracted to write a handful of westerns for the English publishing market operated by Pemberton’s (of Manchester) Ltd. One...

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MAMMOTH DETECTIVE – January 1947

Quite a while ago I read a wartime issue of Mammoth Detective and it had me wanting for more. Fortunately, I had another issue in storage, but from the postwar era. Eagerly I dove into the lead...

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Roundup: Tales of the Old West (v1,n1 – November 1946)

Roundup: Tales of the Old West (November 1946) is a pulp fiction magazine printed in Toronto, Canada by The Globe Printing Company and published by the Universal Publishing Company. Cover art rendered...

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SHORT STORIES (25 April 1933) pulp magazine

Short Stories (1933 April 25) What I love about this issue of SHORT STORIES is it includes a full-page map of the world, pointing out where each enclosed story takes place. It’s a fairly cool concept,...

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