Clik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Laughing Cowboy by N. Wesley Firth
The Laughing Cowboy is a digest-paperback published by Grant Hughes in 1949 and features cover art by James McConnell. The cover story spans pages 3 to 75 and carries the Bert Forde byline; the filler...
View ArticleClik here to view.
LET THE LADY DIE by Bevis Winter (the 6th Steve Craig detective thriller)
Let the Lady Die is the sixth (of 9) Steve Craig private-eye thrillers. This was published by Herbert Jenkins Ltd. in 1957. Text begins on page 9 and culminates on page 192. The jacket cover art is...
View Article