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Magazine Issues

Western Novel(s) and Short Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 105

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1934 – Nov-1946, as Western Novel and Short Stories:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Sep-1934; Feb-1935; Aug-1939; Oct-1939; Nov-1940; Jul-1943)

Oct-1947 – Mar-1954, as Western Novels and Short Stories:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Dec-1952)

Oct-1954 – Jan-1957, as Western Novel and Short Stories:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Apr-1955)

Publishers

Apr-1934 – Nov-1950: Newsstand Publications, Inc.
Jan-1951 – Jan-1957: Stadium Publishing Corporation

Editors

Robert O. Erisman

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 Novels and Short Stories (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 3?

British reprint edition of Western Novels and Short Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Thorpe & Porter
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   1/6d

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Western Outlaws

Country: US
Total Issues: 5+18=23

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1929 – Mar-1930:

Western Fiction Index

Apr-1930 – Aug-1932, as Outlaws of the West:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: Apr-1930 - May/Jun-1931 except Jun/Jul-1930; Mar/Apr-1932 - Aug-1932)

Publishers

Good Story/Blue Band (Harold Hersey)

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

20c

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



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The Western Raider

Country: US
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:	Western Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 3

Feb/Mar-1939, as The Octopus:	Western Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Apr/May-1939, as The Scorpion:	Western Fiction Index
	Pulp Magazine Index 1

Publishers

Popular Publications

Editors

Ejler & Edith Jakobsson

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c; 15c

Pagecounts

112pp; 128pp

Frequency

intended as bimonthly

Related Sites

  Science Fiction Encyclopedia (The Octopus)
  Science Fiction Encyclopedia (The Scorpion)

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



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Western Rangers

Country: US
Total Issues: 19

Issues & Index Sources:  Oct-1930 – Apr-1932: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Sep-1931)

Publishers:   Popular Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   20c
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Western Rangers 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 Rodeo Romances

see under Rodeo Romances

Western Rodeo Romances (Canada)

see under Rodeo Romances (Canada)

Western Romance Anthology

Country: US
Total Issues: 1

Reprinted from other Street & Smith's western romance pulps

Issues & Index Sources: 1948:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers: Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western


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Western Romances [1929]

Country: US
Total Issues: 91

Note that some issues of Real Western Romances were also called just Western Romances.

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1929 – Dec-1939:

Western Fiction Index

(incomplete)

Publishers

Nov-1929 – Dec-1939: Dell Magazines

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

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



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Western Romances (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

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

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues; possibly phantom)

Publishers: The City Libraries, 337 Victoria Road, Glasgow
Prices: 1/-

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Western Romances [1950s]

see under Real Western Romances

Western Romance Stories

Country: Australia
Total Issues: 1?

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s: Western Fiction Index

Publishers: Fitchett Brothers, West Melbourne, Victoria


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Western Round-Up

Country: US
Total Issues: 10

Issues & Index Sources:  Jul-1934 – Oct-1935: Western Fiction Index (Missing: Dec-1934; Jan-1935; Apr-1935)

Publishers:   William H. Cook, Washington and South Avenues, Dunellon, NJ (later at 18 Gay Street, New York, NY)
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   15c
Mentioned in:   The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps, The Pulp Western



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Western Series

Country: US
Total Issues: 24

Issues & Index Sources:  1927: Dime Novel Bibliography

Publishers:   Garden City Publishing Co., Garden City, NY
Formats:   7¼ x 5"
Prices:   25c?
Pagecounts:   200-225
Mentioned in:   Dime Novel Bibliography

Western Shorts

Country: UK
Total Issues: 5?

Two issues of the first (1940/2) series of Yankee Shorts were called Yankee Western Shorts and (at least) two issues of the second (1943/4) series were subtitled Western Shorts, but this was a later series of pamphlets just called Western Shorts.

#4 has not been seen and may not exist.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1944 – Nov-1946:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: #4)

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan
Formats:   digest
Prices:   1944 – 1946: 7d
Pagecounts:   1944 – 1946: 36pp



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Western Short Stories

Country: US
Total Issues: 32+44=76

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1936 – Jan-1944:

Western Fiction Index

Nov-1947 – Jun-1957:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers

  Dec-1936 – Jan-1944: Manvis Publications, Inc. (Martin Goodman)
  Nov-1947 – Sep-1950: Interstate Publishing Corp.
  Nov-1950 – Jun-1957: Stadium Publishing Corporation

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

irregular

Mentioned in: The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps, Ultimate Guide to the Pulps



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Western Short Stories (UK)

Country: UK

British reprint edition of Western Short Stories.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1950s:

Western Fiction Index

(sample issue only)


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Western Star Adventure

Country: UK

Issues & Index Sources:  Nov-1946: Western Fiction Index

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

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