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The Western

Country: US

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1880s: FictionMags Index (sample issue only)

Publishers:   Henry W. Jameson, St. Louis
Editors:   H.H. Morgan
Prices:   35c

Western Ace High Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 6

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1953 – Sep-1954: Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   Popular Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Western Aces

Country: US
Total Issues: 107

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1934 – May-1949:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers

1934 – 1941: Magazine Publishers, Inc. (Ace Magazines)
1941 – 1949: Periodical House, Inc. (Ace Magazines)

Editors

A.A. Wyn

Formats

standard pulp

Sources: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Western Aces (Canada)

Country: Canada

Canadian reprint edition of Western Aces.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issues only)

Formats: standard pulp


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Western Action [1936]

Country: US
Total Issues: 14+117+5+5=141

The numbering of this magazine is extremely odd as it ran as Western Action Novels from v2 #1, March 1936 to February or March 1938 before changing to Western Action as which it ran until 1960. In addition, in November 1938 it restarted as v1 #1 (as which it ran for only five issues, before changing to Greater Western Action Novels for a further five issues.

Issues & Index Sources

Mar-1936 – Mar-1938?, as Western Action Novels Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issues only)

Apr-1938? – Apr-1960, as Western Action:

Western Fiction Index

(incomplete)

Nov-1938 – Aug-1939, as Western Action Novels Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Mar-1939; Jun-1939; Aug-1939)

Oct-1939 – Jan-1941?, as Greater Western Action Novels Magazine:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers

  1936 – 1942: Winford Publications, Inc. (Columbia Publications)
  1942 – 1959: Columbia Publications, Inc.
  1938 – 1941: Double-Action Magazines, Inc. (Columbia Publications)

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

mostly bimonthly but gaps

Sources: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Western Action (Canada)

Country: Canada

Canadian reprint edition of Western Action.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issue only)

Formats: standard pulp
Sources: The Pulpster #11, 2001

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Western Action (UK)

Country: UK

British reprint edition of Western Action.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: #1; #2; any after #8)

Publishers: Hermitage Publications Ltd., Leicester, England.



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Western Action [1960]

Country: US

"True tales of the real West".

Issues & Index Sources: in 1960s

Publishers: Atlas

Western Action Novels

see under Western Action

Western Action Thrillers

Country: US

Listed in the PULP WESTERN as a pulp magazine, this is probably a mistake for the one-shot comic of this name published by Dell comics in April 1937.

Issues & Index Sources: ?:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues; probably phantom)

Sources: The Pulp Western

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Western Action Two Books

see under 2 Western-Action Books

Western Adventure

see under Street & Smith's Western Adventure

Western Adventures [1930]

Country: US
Total Issues: 19

Issues & Index Sources:  Mar-1930 – Apr-1933: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Mar-1930; Jul-1930; Jul-1931; May-1932; Oct-1932; Feb-1933)

Publishers:   Climax Publishing Corp. (Clayton Magazines)
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western


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Western Adventures [1940]

Country: US
Total Issues: 20

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1940 – Dec-1943: Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Editors:   Frank Blackwell
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Western Adventures (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 8?

Companion to Newnes's Air Stories and War Stories but, unlike them, almost entirely reprinted from the American pulps.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1936 – Sep-1936?:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   Newnes
Editors:   T. Stanhope Sprigg
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Sources:   The Age of the Storytellers


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Western Album

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  1946? – 1947?: Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan Ltd.
Formats:   digest
Prices:   3/6d
Pagecounts:   128pp


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Western Book

Country: US

Listed in DinWest, but not located. Probably a mistake for Complete Western Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: ?:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues; possibly phantom)

Sources: The Pulp Western

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Western Capers!

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

A slender publication, featuring seven racey short stories, interspersed with black and white nude or scantily-clad pin-up, purporting to be a US pulp magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950:

FictionMags Index

Publishers: Teal Publications
Pagecounts: 32pp

The Western Comrade

Country: US

A socialist magazine associated with the Llano del Rio utopian community.

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1913 – Apr-1918:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

May-1918 – Jun-1918, as The Internationalist

Publishers

The Western Comrade, 526 California Bldg., Los Angeles, California

Editors

Frank E. Wolfe