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Robert (Butch) Day · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 4:10 am Post subject: Finally, A GOOD Western Pulp!

Now this is why I gave up FaceBook!

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Custer · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2016 1:28 pm Post subject:

So it is possible to leave Facebook? Nice...

Not to quibble, but that is a weird spoof cover. It's not of a pulp magazine, it's of one half of an "Ace Double" paperback from about 1960, suitably doctored. Ryder Windham wouldn't have been active then - he was a comics editor at Fantagraphics/Eros in the early nineties, then moved to Dark Horse, where involvement with their Star Wars comics led on to him becoming a prolific Star Wars novel author. So why use his name? Maybe he put together the spoof cover, though that doesn't seem hugely likely.

Anyway, "pulps" were magazines, printed on low-quality paper, significantly larger than the "digest" format that took over in the fifties. A lot of well-remembered science fiction ones are still collected - and I guess there is a market for the western titles too. Here's a 1951 example - from the same publisher as other "Thrilling" magazines, such as Thrilling Wonder Stories...

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Custer · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:18 am Post subject:

That's true - a pretty good name for any kind of writer, I guess.

It would be fairly easy to make up similar spoof covers... just find a suitable cover online where the title is only across a plain stretch of background, "clone" out the original text, and put your own new lettering on. Whether or not it would "go viral," who can say? Wink