Western Magazine No. 2

Contents
J.L. Bouma “Killer Posse”
L.L. Foreman “Deadline in Barrio”
Elmore Leonard “The Rancher’s Lady”
C.S. Park “Two-Gun Farewell”
Ed La Vanway “Shadow of the Shield”
George C. Appell “Backtrail Blues”
C. William Harrison “Meet Mr. Mule”
Debs Smith “Caged”
Gardner F. Fox “The Fight at Lost Horse Springs”

Western Magazine Vol. 1 No. 2 Sept. 1955
Editor: Harry Widmer
Business Manager: Monroe Froehlich
Art Director: Mel Blum
Art Editor: Robert C. O’Neill
~5.5” x 7.75” 160 pages 35¢

Read Peter Enfantino’s story-by-story recap of Western Magazine in The Digest Enthusiast No. 8.

“I am both proud and gratified that my long-time and valued friend, Leo Margulies, is the publisher and sole owner of this magazine. It is a project that both Leo and I have held in our…

Excerpt from “The Creative Works of Joe Wehrle, Jr.” from The Digest Enthusiast No. 8, June 2018. His story, “Kromaflies,” appears in The Digest Enthusiast No. 10, June 2019. (Quotes gleaned from Joe’s interviews or correspondence.)…

“Stories” changed to “Cases” in this issue’s full title: Detective: The Magazine of True Crime Cases Vol. 1 No. 2 Spring 1951 Contents Stuart Palmer “Fancy Nancy’s Secret” Allan R.Bosworth “The Laughing Killer of the Woodside…

“George Milonivich did not know if his city was becoming Sodom or if it was becoming Gomorrah, but the increasing numbers of strip clubs, gay bars, and general perversity he witnessed on a daily basis certainly…

Contents Gary Lovisi: Paperback Talk Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Writer & the Stories” Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Books & the Covers” Gary Lovisi & Art Scott “Carter Brown: The Signet List” Art Scott “Carter…

Contents Michael Bracken “Itsy Bitsy Spider” Thomas Pluck “The Third Jump of Frankie Buffalo” Matt Mattilla “Day Planner” William R. Soldan “Tally Ho” C.A. Rowland “Beach Body” Nick Kolakowski “Viking Funeral” Andrew Welsh-Huggins “Long Drive Home”…

Contents Wayne D. Dundee “Straight from the Shoulder Holster” Joe R. Lansdale “By Bizarre Hands” Daniel Rowe “The Dispeptic Diogenes” Hal Charles “The Peacemakers” Michael Bracken “Partners” (Nathaniel Rose) Max Allan Collins “Mourn the Living” (Part…

Published in 1945 by J.P. Feiner, The Greatest Adventure Stories Ever Told features “30 Thrillers by the world’s master story-tellers.” Steve Carper’s research for One-and-Dones part two (The Digest Enthusiast No. 8), reveals its likely connection…

Contents Ted White: Editorial Fritz Leiber “Under the Thumbs of the Gods” (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) art by Stephen Fabian Barry N. Malzberg “Dance” Ross Rocklynne “Emptying the Plate” art by Tony Gleeson Frank Belknap…