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

[comicjack]

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[Robot Man]

[Darwination]

I like that the Sheriff is going fisticuffs to deal with the snake with cards in his sleeves here.  Usually it's guns at the poker table

Some superman business lifting him over his head like that.

[dickymoe74]

On 7/3/2024 at 11:28 AM, Darwination said:

I thought this was pretty cool from a fresh pulp scan that came across the wire this morning in the pulpscans group, painting giveaway

Rafael Desoto cover (restoration by Saskia, scan by Steve, pulp donated by Sai)

full scan here

Yes, please............  I want the painting...  LOL.  This is very cool, love this........

[dickymoe74]

On 7/4/2024 at 6:12 AM, comicjack said:

I've never seen this cover.  Very cool and I want to find this one now.....  Love it!!!

[dickymoe74]

On 7/4/2024 at 6:08 AM, comicjack said:

Rangeland Romances had a lot of amazing cover art!  The prices are getting high too....... 

[OtherEric]

In today.  Another Zorro story in this one:

 

[Darwination]

On 7/11/2024 at 12:12 AM, OtherEric said:

In today.  Another Zorro story in this one:

 

That bartender's about to catch a stray bullet.

[dickymoe74]

My personal favorite The Lone Ranger Magazine - July, 1937 Pulp issue.  Amazing Cover Art by H. J. Ward.

[Darwination]

Came across this photo in an issue of Spot I was putting up at the IA last night.  Canadian actress June Storey and pup reading the current issue of New Western (image courtesy of MCS where this beater copy is currently available @ two dollars and fifty cents).  I'm fairly certain that these Spot were produced in the same manner as the giant Fawcett Master Comics.

https://archive.org/details/spot-v-01n-02-1940-10.-country-press-darwination-mc-coy-ia

Edited July 16 by Darwination

[Darwination]

I just got one of these in yesterday and thought I'd share.  This particular volume could have gone over in romance pulps because of the covers, but I've been hitting that one hard lately.

From Adventure House, they have a number of these Thrilling file copy bound volumes, and I just had to pick one up.  Gunnison lists the page quality as low which is somewhat true, but since they're bound and cut, everything's perfectly intact and not brittle or anything.  Looks like a *great* way to read pulp, as there's these big thick protective pages for thumbing at front and back.  The downside is the trimmed covers, but the upside on the covers is the state of preservation. This particular volume has some Johnston McCulley, a lot of Marian O'Hearn, Joe Archibald, and other good stuffs.  I believe they have some West left if @OtherEric didn't buy them all.  I like it so much and the price is so reasonable, $35, I'll likely pick up a romance volume next time I do an order from them.  They don't work for my purposes of scanning or doing graphics work with the full covers, but I can't imagine a better way to handle and read pulp.

Edited August 2 by Darwination

[Sarg]

I have some of those Thrilling bound volumes. It's very bittersweet. Great provenance, the covers are in mint condition, and you get a continuous six-or-twelve month run; but the trimming, plus the brittleness of the pages is a downer. 

[Darwination]

A dollar pulp, happy there is still such a thing (and we'll just call it that since I picked up two for a dollar apice and they combined shipped with another book that cost a bit more to win).  1959, a pulp survivor.  A couple of reprints (including a L'amour) but mostly new stories.  Unsure who the cover artist is, funky with the blonde and angry cowboy looking right at the reader.

[dickymoe74]

[Sarg]

On 8/4/2024 at 9:52 PM, Darwination said:

A dollar pulp, happy there is still such a thing (and we'll just call it that since I picked up two for a dollar apice and they combined shipped with another book that cost a bit more to win).  1959, a pulp survivor.  A couple of reprints (including a L'amour) but mostly new stories.  Unsure who the cover artist is, funky with the blonde and angry cowboy looking right at the reader.

I've seen that cover on something else, perhaps an earlier paperback. Note that they dropped listing the writer's names. 

Pulps were supposed to have been long dead by 1959, but not the underdog, Ranch Romances! Which carried on until 1971.

[Sarg]

On 8/9/2024 at 11:11 PM, dickymoe74 said:

I'm pretty sure women didn't dress like that in the Old West...

[Darwination]

What, she is wearing cowboy boots, isn't she?

I'm wondering why the Sheriff seems to be breaking her out of his own jail?