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Magazine Issues

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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Western Adventures (UK)

Country: UK
Total Issues: 8?

Companion to Newnes's Air Stories and War Stories but, unlike them, almost entirely reprinted from the American pulps.

Issues & Index Sources: Feb-1936 – Sep-1936?:

Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   Newnes
Editors:   T. Stanhope Sprigg
Formats:   standard pulp
Prices:   7d
Pagecounts:   96pp
Frequency:   monthly
Mentioned in:   The Age of the Storytellers


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Western Album

Country: UK
Total Issues: 2?

Issues & Index Sources:  1946? – 1947?: Western Fiction Index

Publishers:   Gerald G. Swan Ltd.
Formats:   digest
Prices:   3/6d
Pagecounts:   128pp


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Western Book

Country: US

Listed in DinWest, but not located. Probably a mistake for Complete Western Book Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: ?:

Western Fiction Index

(Missing: all issues; possibly phantom)

Mentioned in: The Pulp Western

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Western Capers!

Country: UK
Total Issues: 1

A slender publication, featuring seven racey short stories, interspersed with black and white nude or scantily-clad pin-up, purporting to be a US pulp magazine.

Issues & Index Sources: c. 1950:

FictionMags Index

Publishers: Teal Publications
Pagecounts: 32pp

The Western Comrade

Country: US

A socialist magazine associated with the Llano del Rio utopian community.

Issues & Index Sources

Apr-1913 – Apr-1918:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

May-1918 – Jun-1918, as The Internationalist

Publishers

The Western Comrade, 526 California Bldg., Los Angeles, California

Editors

Frank E. Wolfe

Online Sources

Online Books

Western Crime Stories

Mentioned in Haining's "American Pulp Magazines", but is a novel by Morton T. Cayne.

Western Daily Press

Country: US

The Western Daily Press is a regional newspaper covering parts of South West England, mainly Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset as well as the metropolitan areas of Bath and North East Somerset and the Bristol area.

Issues & Index Sources

1858 – 1932

1932 – 1950, as Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror:

FictionMags Index

(sample issues only)

1950 – present, as Western Daily Press:

FictionMags Index

(sample issue only)

Publishers

Local World (in 2019)

Editors

Gavin Thompson (in 2019)

Related Sites

Wikipedia

Western Digest (1969)

Country: US

Non-fiction.

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1969 – 1970?:

FictionMags Index

(Missing: all after #5, Nov-1969)

Publishers: Charlton Publications