Alright Pilgrims…..get up, dust off your chaps and show us your Western Pulps! 1 1

[Darwination]

On 11/30/2023 at 11:05 PM, OtherEric said:

The antepenultimate pulp:

Four issues a year from 59-71, incredible.

Looks like they used the same cover in 67, too.

I'd never looked at one of these late-era editions (love what I've read from the 40s and 50s tho), and it's neat to see the same features from way back when. 

Upon closer examination, it's the exact same stories from back then

I looked up a scanned issue from August 67 issue which had a Kinstler illo (I'd being working on one of his 50 images just tonight) so I knew they were recycling before I even checked the Fictionmags index.

     Ranch Romances & Adventures [v223 #3, May 1971] ed. Anne Keffer (Popular Library, Inc., 50¢, 98pp, small pulp)
 
        5 · Our Air Mail · [The Readers] · lc
        7 · The Bounty Trail · Kenneth L. Sinclair · ss Ranch Romances 1st December 1952
        21 · Top Hand · William S. Annett · ss Ranch Romances 1st December 1952
        28 · Gunsmoke Girl · Walker A. Tompkins · na Ranch Romances 1st December 1952
        52 · Next Stop—Texas · Cy Kees · ss Ranch Romances 1st December 1952
        58 · Spawned by the Frontier · Ferris Weddle · ts Ranch Romances 1st December 1952
        61 · Win Money · [uncredited] · cn
        62 · Empty Saddle, Empty Heart · Hascal Giles · ss Ranch Romances 2nd May 1952
        67 · Palo Duro’s Secrets · Jeanne Claytor · ts Ranch Romances 2nd May 1952
        70 · Adamless Eden · Seth Ranger · ss Ranch Romances 2nd September 1952
        74 · Birth of Courage · John Griffith · ss Ranch Romances 2nd May 1952, as by Cy Kees

Wonder what the circulation was in the last years.  It really does have great appeal to both sexes.  I like a little love interest thrown in with the other western elements, just like the ladies probably like a little action mixed in with their love

Here's the Kinstler I worked with tonight -

 

[waaaghboss]

On 11/30/2023 at 7:59 PM, Darwination said:

An interesting pulp auction at Heritage today with westerns and romances.  This result had to be a little surprising in spite of the never-ending love of skeletons and skulls.

Book description:
Wild West Weekly - October 14th, 1933 (Street & Smith) Condition: VG-. Classic skull cover by Walter M. Baumhofer. Piece out of cover, tape repairs, and spine tears. Bookery's Guide to Pulps Second Edition VG value = $10.
From the Jack and Joanie Kump Pulp Collection. Comes with COA from Heritage Auctions.

Result:

also a strong showing for a Lariat we were showing around here:

The Lone Ranger did well, somebody might have picked up the full run of those.

I didn't tag any of the romance/girlies I was after, but what else is new

Hard to know what to make out of some of the results, especially with the romances...

Sorry to hear you didn't walk away with any books.  That Lariat end price is impressive,  whoever got the vg copy from mcs earlier this month for $60 is probably pretty happy.

[Robot Man]

A cool, cheap antique store pickup. I know westerns “are dead”, but this ain’t no corney Dell western photo cover…

[Darwination]

Woo!  Westerns aren't dead, they're just playing possum

Western bad guys are often missing a tooth.   That one's Robert Gibson Jones, Chicago artist like some of the other Ziff-Davis peeps - prolly most remembered for the "girl in dog's mouth" cover.

I like this variation of the toothless baddie, yellow tooth, Arnold Kohn, another Z-D Chicagoan.

[Darwination]

Not a western pulp exactly, but a Western cover -

[Darwination]

Bedsheet format

https://archive.org/details/the-frontier-v-04n-02-1926-05.-doubleday-page-co.-darwination-dpp-ia

Edited April 1 by Darwination

[Ameri]

Red Circles from 1934 to 1944

[Darwination]

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Damsel in distress? Nope. How about a hand, cowboy?

[Primetime]

On 6/1/2024 at 8:34 PM, Ameri said:

Red Circles from 1934 to 1944

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[Ameri]

On 6/2/2024 at 2:44 AM, Primetime said:

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Got a message from a fellow cowhand for the full scans, so here they are

May 1934

May 1935

May 1935

April 1936

Aug 1937

Sept 1937

Dec 1939

Oct 1939

Sept 1939

Feb 1940

June 1940

March 1940

Nov 1940

Sept 1940

Jan 1941

Jan 1944

Edited Monday at 12:07 PM by Ameri

[Primetime]

Here’s my current round up 🤠 @Ameri

 

Edited Monday at 03:50 AM by Primetime

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[Robot Man]

On 6/3/2024 at 3:24 PM, comicjack said:

Nice! I really love those Fiction House westerns as well as the Jungles. I was hoping to see some at Pulpalooza but they were in short supply. 

[comicjack]

On 6/4/2024 at 12:06 PM, Robot Man said:

Nice! I really love those Fiction House westerns as well as the Jungles. I was hoping to see some at Pulpalooza but they were in short supply. 

The low prices doesn't cause the demand but i love them 

[OtherEric]

In today.  All three have Zorro stories even if they're not mentioned on the cover:

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