Spicy/Speed Western Stories
Spicy Western Stories was one of the notorious Spicy pulps published by Culture Publications in
the late 1930s which concentrated on a simple formula - fast action stories laced with sex. It ran for six years
under that title before the forces of reform forced it to change to the rather more sedate Speed Western Stories.
Note that from 1936 through late 1937, most issues appeared in two different versions - one uncensored
and the other self-censored. The censored version was identifiable by a star within a box located at the top
of the cover. Little information is known about the differences between these issues but some, at least,
contained different stories and possibly had different covers. The covers for the censored versions are displayed
in parallel below the uncensored covers.
A selection of stories was published by Malibu Graphics in 1990.
1936 |
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 v1 #1 Nov |
 v1 #2 Dec |
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 v1 #1 Nov |
 v1 #2 Dec |
1937 |
 v1 #3 Jan |
 v1 #4 Feb |
 v1 #5 Mar |
 v1 #6 Apr |
 v2 #1 May |
 v2 #2 Jun |
 v2 #3 Jul |
 v2 #4 Aug |
 v2 #5 Sep |
 v2 #6 Oct |
 v3 #1 Nov |
 v3 #2 Dec |
 v1 #3 Jan |
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 v1 #5 Mar |
 v1 #6 Apr |
 v2 #1 May |
 v2 #2 Jun |
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1938 |
 v3 #3 Jan |
 v3 #4 Feb |
 v3 #5 Mar |
 v3 #6 Apr |
 v4 #1 May |
 v4 #2 Jun |
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 v4 #3 Aug |
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 v4 #4 Oct |
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 v4 #5 Dec |
1939 |
 v4 #6 Jan |
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 v5 #1 Mar |
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 v5 #2 May |
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 v5 #3 Jul |
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 v5 #4 Sep |
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 v5 #5 Nov |
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1940 |
 v5 #6 Jan |
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 v6 #1 Mar |
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 v6 #2 May |
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 v6 #3 Jul |
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 v6 #4 Sep |
 v6 #5 Oct |
 v6 #6 Nov |
 v7 #1 Dec |
1941 |
 v7 #2 Jan |
 v7 #3 Feb |
 v7 #4 Mar |
 v7 #5 Apr |
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 v7 #6 Jun |
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 v8 #1 Aug |
 v8 #2 Sep |
 v8 #3 Oct |
 v8 #4 Nov |
 v8 #5 Dec |
1942 |
 v8 #6 Jan |
 v9 #1 Feb |
 v9 #2 Mar |
 v9 #3 Apr |
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 v9 #4 Jun |
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 v9 #5 Aug |
 v9 #6 Sep |
 v10 #1 Oct |
 v10 #2 Nov |
 v10 #3 Dec |
1943 |
 v1 #1 Jan |
 v1 #2 Feb |
 v1 #3 Mar |
 v1 #4 Apr |
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 v1 #5 Jun |
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 v1 #6 Aug |
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 v2 #1 Oct |
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 v2 #2 Dec |
1944 |
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 v2 #3 Feb |
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 v2 #4 Apr |
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 v2 #5 Jun |
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 v2 #6 Aug |
 v3 #1 Sep |
 v3 #2 Oct |
 v3 #3 Nov |
 v3 #4 Dec |
1945 |
 v3 #5 Jan |
 v3 #6 Feb |
 v4 #1 Mar |
 v4 #2 Apr |
 v4 #3 May |
 v4 #4 Jun |
 v4 #5 Jul |
 v4 #6 Aug |
 v5 #1 Sep |
 v5 #2 Oct |
 v5 #3 Nov |
 v5 #4 Dec |
1946 |
 v5 #5 Jan |
 v5 #6 Feb |
 v6 #1 Mar |
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 v6 #2 May |
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 v6 #3 Jul |
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 v6 #4 Sep |
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 v6 #5 Nov |
 v6 #6 Dec |
1947 |
 v7 #1 Jan |
 v7 #2 Feb |
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 v7 #3 Apr |
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 v7 #4 Jul |
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 v7 #5 Oct |
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1948 |
 v7 #6 Jan |
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1990 |

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