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Magazine Issues

Western Short Stories

Issues & Index Sources: Dec-1936 – Jun-1957?:

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Manvis Publications (Martin Goodman); Stadium Publishing (in 1953)
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   irregular
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Western Short Stories (UK)

British reprint edition of Western Short Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s

Western Star Adventures

Issues & Index Sources: Nov-1946:

Fictionmags Website

Publishers:   Brown Watson
Prices:   1/-
Pagecounts:   32pp

Western Stories (UK)

see under Pocket Reader Series

Western Story Annual

Total Issues: 7

Issues & Index Sources: 1941 – 1950:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: 1943, 1946, 1948, 1950)

Publishers:   Street & Smith
Formats:   large pulp (except 1948, which was digest)
Frequency:   annual (with gaps)
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Western Story Magazine

Total Issues: 1286+11=1297

Formerly a dime-novel library, The New Buffalo Bill Weekly, featuring the adventures of the eponymous hero. The changeover was not immediate - the first issue to bear the heading Western Story Magazine is believed to be 12-Jul-1919 (v7#1) but the first pulp issue was 5-Sep-1919 (v8#1) and the first two pulp issues, at least, continued to have Buffalo Bill stories.

Note that in 1943 the frequency of the magazine changed: up to the February 13th 1943 issue Western Story Magazine was a weekly, then there was six-week gap until 20th March, before then settling down to a fortnightly publication schedule. Note also that there were NO issues in February 1920.

Issues & Index Sources

12-Jul-1919 – 14-Mar-1931:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: 12-Jul-1919 - 5-Nov-1919 & 20-Apr-1920 - 20-Sep-1920)

21-Mar-1931 – 1-Jun-1940, as Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: 10-Nov-1934; 7-Nov-1936; 22-Jul-1939)

8-Jun-1940 – Aug/Sep-1949, as Street & Smith's Western Story:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Oct-1952 – Jun-1954, as Western Story Magazine

(sample issues only)

Publishers

Jul-1919 – Aug/Sep-1949: Street & Smith
Oct-1952 – Jun-1954: Popular Publications

Editors

  Frank Blackwell
  ? – 1937: Dorothy Hubbard
  1937 – 1948?: John Burr

Formats

  5-Sep-1919 – 1943: standard pulp
  1943 – Aug/Sep-1949: digest
  Oct-1952 – Jun-1954: pulp

Prices

15c

Frequency

semi-monthly, then weekly, then monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Western Story Magazine (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Western Story Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1930s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Street & Smiths Publications, Gardenvale, Quebec
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   Pulpster11

Western Story Magazine (UK)

see under Street & Smith's Western Story Magazine (UK)

Western Story Magazine (UK) [1966]

"This issue contains stories by Steve Frazee, Bill Gulick, Noel Loomis, H.A. DeRosso and Ernest Haycox. This would be an impressive line-up even for an anthology, but it's pretty incredible for a monthly magazine. (Of course, they're all American reprints, so it is kind of like an anthology, but the selection is still remarkable. The American reprint mags I've seen have mostly been dreck.)" (Kent Johnson on #2)

Issues & Index Sources: Jun-1966 – ?

Publishers:   Fleetway
Formats:   digest
Prices:   3/6d
Pagecounts:   160pp
Frequency:   monthly

Western Story Round Up

see under All-Story Western and under Rangeland Romances

Western Supernovel Magazine

see under Complete Western Book Magazine