“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
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“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.