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The Western Monthly (1898)

A magazine devoted to the art, literature, progress and development of the Inter-Mountain West. Official organ of the "See America First" League. Published some stories by J.U. Giesy in 1910.

Possibly preceded by a weekly magazine called Truth.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1898 – 1911
Publishers:   Truth Pub. Co., Salt Lake City, Utah
Frequency:   monthly

Western Monthly (Australia)

Issues typically contained a long lead novel and a filler short story.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   The Shakespeare Head
Prices:   2/-
Pagecounts:   112pp
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Western Novelets

Issues & Index Sources:  Jun-1936 – Dec-1939?
Publishers:   Red Circle
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Western Novel Magazine

see under Big Story Magazine

The Western Novel of the Month

Series of monthly novels in digest format. #20 and #21 in 1936, and at least one earlier issue in 1934. Reprinted in 1944 by Hillman.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1930s
Sources:   DinWest

Western Novels and Short Stories

Some issues as Western Novel and Short Stories.

Issues & Index Sources:  Apr-1934 – Jan-1957?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only; possibly later issues)
Publishers:   Newsstand
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Western Novels (UK)

Total Issues: 8

British reprint edition of Western Novels and Short Stories featuring covers with the full title, but given as Western Novels only in the table of contents.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1956
Publishers:   L. Miller and Son Ltd., 142-144 Hackney Road, London E2
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   64pp

Western Outlaws

Total Issues: 5+18=23

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1929 – Mar-1930: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
  Apr-1930 – Aug-1932, as Outlaws of the West: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Good Story/Blue Band (Harold Hersey)

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  20c

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

The Western Raider

Total Issues: 3+1+1=5

The Octopus was a villain-oriented character pulp. Numbering continued from Western Raider, whose first issue was dated Aug/Sep 1938. The second novel in this series featured a different villain and appeared in the separately numbered issue of The Scorpion.

Issues & Index Sources

  Aug/Sep-1938 – Dec-1938/Jan-1939: Pulp Magazine Index 3
  Feb/Mar-1939, as The Octopus: Miller/Contento
Pulp Magazine Index 1
  Apr/May-1939, as The Scorpion: Miller/Contento
Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

  Popular Publications

Editors

  Ejler & Edith Jakobsson

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  10c; 15c

Pagecounts

  112pp; 128pp

Frequency

  intended as bi-monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Western Rangers

Total Issues: 19

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1930 – Apr-1932: Fictionmags Website (sample issue only)
Publishers:   Popular Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Western Rangers Stories

Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources

  Oct-1953 – Sep-1954: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

#merges with Dime Western Magazine

Publishers

  Popular Publications

Formats

  standard pulp

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Western Rodeo Romances

see under Rodeo Romances

Western Rodeo Romances (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Western Rodeo Romances.

Issues & Index Sources:  c. 1950
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11

Western Romance Anthology

Total Issues: 1

Reprinted from other Street & Smith's western romance pulps

Issues & Index Sources:  1948
Publishers:   Street & Smith
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Western Romances

Total Issues: 91+?

Note that some issues of Real Western Romances were also called just Western Romances. Note also that the second series claimed that "all stories are based on true-life situations".

Issues & Index Sources

  Nov-1929 – Dec-1939: Fictionmags Website (incomplete)
  Jan-1959? – Dec-1960?: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)

Publishers

  Nov-1929 – Dec-1939: Dell Magazines
  Jan-1959? – Dec-1960?: Columbia Publications

Editors

  Jun-1935: Carson Mowre
  Dec-1935: Clifford Dowdey
  in 1938: Arthur Lawson

Formats

  standard pulp

Prices

  20c (dropped to 15c by Jun-1935 and to 10c by Dec-1935)

Frequency

  monthly

Sources

  AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest
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Western Romances (UK)

Total Issues: 1

Announced as "forthcoming" in #1 of Round-Up Magazine, but might not actually have appeared.

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1940s (possibly phantom)
Publishers:   The City Libraries, 337 Victoria Road, Glasgow
Prices:   1/-

Western Round-Up

Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1934 – Oct-1935: Fictionmags Website (sample issues only)
Publishers:   William H. Cook, Washington and South Avenues, Dunellon, NJ (later at 18 Gay Street, New York, NY)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Western Shorts

Total Issues: 2?+5?=7?

The first series seems to have only one unnumbered issue and a #4, while the second series seems to be missing #4, possibly deliberately.

Issues & Index Sources

  c. 1943: Fictionmags Website
  Feb-1944 – Nov-1946: Fictionmags Website (Missing: #4)

Publishers

  Gerald G. Swan

Formats

  digest

Prices

  1943: 6d
  1944 – 1946: 7d

Pagecounts

  1943: 64pp
  1944 – 1946: 36pp


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