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Simple, Fast search of the FictionMags Index
Simple, fast search of the FictionMags Index. It’s finally here. https://pulpflakes.com/fmisearch/ The FictionMags Index (FMI) is the biggest online index of English language fiction published in periodicals. Search the FMI by author or artist name, magazine title or look for a specific issue by date or issue number. Tips and tricks While search tolerates partial……
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Off-beat Tales: Western Trails, November 1943
Last week, we took a look at the May 1938 issue of Western Trails. Let’s now look at the November 1943 issue. Cover by John Krank, which could be a pseudonym. The content structure looks similar to the earlier issue, two novelettes, seven short stories and one fact article. Western Trails [Vol. XXXVII No. 3,……
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Off-beat Tales: Review of Western Trails, May 1938
Why read a second-tier title like Western Trails? Most of my western reading in the pulps has been from Street & Smith’s Western Story. I’ve also sampled Doubleday’s West, Popular Publications’ Dime Western, Star Western and a few issues of Clayton’s Cowboy Stories and Ace-High. Flirted with a few Ranch Romances. But the western was……
Danny, The last paragraph of this blog has a list of notable authors in Sea Stories, but I haven’t read…
Yeah, that other collector sure works fast. He also beat me to two Argosy covers.
Hi Walker and Sai, Since Sea Stories was a Street & Smith publication, I was hoping to get some Street…
There were 118 issues titled SEA STORIES and then in July 1930 the name was changed to EXCITEMENT for a…
The Jack Drummond who was killed in a bank robbery is not the pulp writer. He would have had to…