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West Branch

Country: US
Total Issues: 78 (to Spring/Summer 2015)

A Twice-Yearly Journal of Literature Published at Bucknell University's Stadler Center for Poetry. Circulation 500

Issues & Index Sources: 1978 – present

Website:   www.bucknell.edu/westbranch.xml
Publishers:   Bucknell Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837 (in 1998 - 2002)
Editors:   Karl Patten & Robert Love Taylor (in 1998 - 2000); Joshua Harmon (in 2002)
Formats:   review
Pagecounts:   88+pp
Frequency:   twice yearly (Spring 2000 #46)
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (in 2002)

Westbury Library

Country: US
Total Issues: 100

Issues & Index Sources:  1920s: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Westbury Publishing Co., Inc., 140 Cedar Street, New York
Formats:   7 x 4¾"
Prices:   10c
Pagecounts:   220 to 270
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

West Coast Line

Country: Canada

A literary review that carries some fiction. A continuation of West Coast Review and Line.

Issues & Index Sources: Spring 1990 – in 2000s

Publishers:   2027 East Academic Annex, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 Canada (in 1998 - 2000)
Editors:   Roy Miki (in 1998 - 2000)
Formats:   review
Frequency:   thrice yearly
Mentioned in:   O. Henry Awards Website (not in 2002)

West Coast Magazine

Country: US

Standard pulp size, its more like Harpers, or The Munsey with regard to paper and content.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1909 – 1919:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

Publishers: Grafton Publishing Company
Formats: pulp

Westend Detective

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 35 (at least)

Issues & Index Sources:  in 1950s: Crime Fiction Index (sample issues only)

Publishers:   Action Comics, 14 Bond Street, Sydney
Mentioned in:   Australian Crime Fiction


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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
Mentioned in:   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

Mentioned in: 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

Mentioned in: 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
Mentioned in: 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)

Mentioned in: 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)

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



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