“Chase Montgomery wasn’t just out of the closet—he was out of the house and leading one-man Gay Pride parades around our little two-stoplight Texas town until he disappeared on the first without saying goodbye.”
“Chase Your Dreams” by Michael Bracken Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 2016
“Krug passed himself off as a tough gunslick to enter the social circle of a ghost-town hideout—and to live with vicious outlaws and their tricky women.”
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Philip Ketchem “The Rider from Hangman’s Valley”
Gardner F. Fox “Helltown Gunslinger” art by Matt Baker
Joseph Chadwick “Gunsmoke Over Wyoming”
“Rancher Jim Vance, back home from the War of ’98, suddenly found that he had to choose between the gallows and a quitclaim to his little ranch.”
Western Magazine Vol. 4 No. 1 July 1957
Publisher: Martin Goodman
Editor: Harry Widmer
Business Manager: Monroe Froehlich, Jr.
Art Director: Mel Blum
~5.5” x 7.75” 160 pages 35¢
“The roaring tent town was a tumultuous rat hole of killers, gamblers and dancehall girls—not the most likely place for ex-Marshal Slater to hunt for his wife.”
Read Peter Enfantino’s story-by-story recap of Western Magazine in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8.
Excerpt from my tribute, “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018:
“One of the things I worked out [for Cartoon Trader] was a strip I called Stovepipe,” Joe wrote in 2010, “which mostly showed the positive but funny aspects of being the tallest kid in the neighborhood. It wasn’t until sometime after we’d ended the Cartoon Trader that I got the idea of doing a couple of adventure stories with Stovey as the hero.”
By 1993, Joe had completed two stories and published them in a handmade volume, an early, independently produced graphic novel. He submitted the project for publication to Kitchen Sink, who declined the offer with much regret. Editor James Vance wrote: “‘Heart’ is a quality that’s missing from most of the submissions we receive…” and despite not seeing it as commercially viable for Kitchen Sink “…I’d be very happy to see it in print and available…”
Joe’s bibliography appears on the Larque Press website.
Sam S. Taylor (1903–1994) wrote five stories for Manhunt and four novels in the 1940s and 1950s, three originally in hardcover for Dutton: Sleep No More (1949); No Head For Her Pillow (1952); and So Cold, My Bed (1953); and one in paperback for Gold Medal: Brenda (1952) under the pseudonym Lehi Zane.
Peter Enfantino’s story-by-story synopses of Manhunt is featured in The Digest Enthusiast No. 6–11.
Justin Marriott: Fanatical Thoughts
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Gold Medal Reviews courtesy PaperbackWarrior.com
Paul Bishop: Gil Brewer—The Dark Invader
Justin Marriott: Brewer’s Droop
Bob Deis: Brewer in MAMs (Men’s Adventure Magazines)
Paul Bishop: The Other Marlowe
Justin Marriott: A Town Called Malice
Rob Matthews: Charles Williams and His Girls
Charles Williams Bibliography
Justin Marriott: A Visual Guide to Robert McGinnis
Justin Marriott: Brighter than Salmon Pink
Wyatt Doyle Interview
Paperback Fanatic No. 43 Jan. 2020
Editor/Publisher: Justin Marriott
Assistant Editor: Jim O’Brien
Proofer: Tom Tesarek
7” x 10” 90 pages, full color
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Brett Halliday: Weddings . . . and Funerals
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Brett Halliday “Lilies for the Bride” art by Leo Morey
John Jakes “The Affair of the Second Dracula”
D.E. Forbes “The Fifth One” art by Bowman
Rufus King “Murder on Her Mind” art by Leo Morey
Henry Slesar “Fly Home to Betsy” art by Leo Morey
Frederic (Fredric) Sinclair “Sky Caper”
John Bennett Stacey “The Dangerous Decision”
Curtis W. Casewit “You Can’t Buy Guts” art by Leo Morey
W.R. Drobnich “Who Else, Mac?
Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Vol. 2 No. 5 Dec. 1957
Publisher: Leo Margulies
Managing Editor: Cylvia Kleinman
Production: Joan Sherman
5.25” x 7.75” 128 pages 35¢
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Ejler Jakobsson’s Editor’s Page: 43° N, 154° E (location of the moon crater named for Willy Ley)
James Blish “Darkside Crossing”
Ernest Hill “The Stenth Dimension”
Robert Silverberg “We Are Well Organized”
Grahame Leman “2001 Hours’ Solo”
Stephen Tall “The Mad Scientist and the FBI”
Algis Budrys: Galaxy Bookshelf
Robert A. Heinlein “I Will Fear No Evil” Part IV
Keith Laumer’s Science Feature: The Limiting Velocity of Orthodoxy
Galaxy Magazine Vol. 31 No. 1 Dec. 1970
Publisher: Arnold E. Abramson
Assoc. Publisher: Bernard Williams
Editor: Ejler Jakobsson
Science Editor: Donald H. Menzel
Feature Editor: Lester del Rey
Managing Editor: Judy-Lynn Benjamin
Art Director: Franc L. Roggeri
Assoc. Art Director: Jack Gaughan
Cover and interior art: Jack Gaughan
5.25” x 7.75” 192 pages 75¢
At first glance, J.N. Darby’s digest-sized Murder in the House with the Blue Eyes may appear as a singleton. But the lower right corner of its cover reveals it’s “A Thrilling Mystery Novel,” from Atlas Books, produced under their Margood Publishing Company imprint in 1944, and therefore not an elusive One-and-Done.
For further candidates and their fates read Steve Carper’s series “One-and-Dones” that appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7–9.
Now Available from McFarland: Steve Carper’s Robots in American Popular Culture, a comprehensive reference volume that includes a companion website: robotsinamericanpopularculture.com.
The pulp magazine with modern sensibilities is going out big. Issue 12 is both twice as thick as previous issues, but it’s also the last issue for the indefinite future. Co-editors Matthew Gomez and Cameron Mount summed it up: “We’ve had a good run, but both of us want to work on different projects, and well, we’d like to think we are ending on a high note.”
Broadswords and Blasters No. 12 Winter 2020
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Matthew X. Gomez & Cameron Mount: From the Editors
J. Rohr “Riding the Rails”
Richard L. Rubin “Commander Saturn and the Air Bandit of Mars”
D.J. Tyrer “Journey to Mount Argaeas”
Kristen Reid “American Appetites”
Jonathan Mast “Callahan and the Bomb Squad”
S. Gepp “No Stand”
Ben Serna-Grey “Smoke & Hamsters”
Keith Kennedy “The Drive Home”
E.G. Thompson “The DSO”
T.L. Simpson “Crowbait”
Andrew Miller “Shootout at Namaste Mart”
Roger H. Stone “Spaceman and the Freakshow”
Steve DuBois “The Professionals”
Anthony Pickett “Aces and Rogues”
Russell W. Johnson “Don’t Let the Law Hit Ya Where the Good Lord Split Ya”
Kristen Brand “Starstruck”
Scott Forbes Crawford “A Lone Man is No Warrior”
Matt Spencer “The Radiant Abyss”
Editors: Matthew X. Gomez, Cameron Mount
Cover: Luke Spooner
6” x 9”, 255 pages
Print $9.99, Kindle $3.99
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Jim Main’s This & That . . .
Jack Bertram’s The Tell-Tale Heart Revisited
Steve Keeter’s Tribute to Bill Shelly and Sam Gafford with art by art by Jack Bertram and Doc Boucher
To Be Continued! (Part 1) A Serial Pictorial
Buck Oviatt’s Superman and the Mole Men with art by Scott McClung and Doc Boucher
Brien Wayne Powell’s Poor Execution
Whatever No. 1 Winter 2020
Publisher/Managing Editor: Jim Main
Editor/Production Manager: Robert J. Sodaro
Assistant Publisher: Connie Main
Front Cover Production and Logo Design: Marc Haines
Front Cover Artwork: Anthony C. Gray
8.5” x 11” full color, 28 pages
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