Archive for September, 2009
Western Action, November, 1951
Western Action was a pulp magazine turned out quarterly by Columbia Publications with Volume 15, No. 5 being the last issue for 1951. Like a lot of the pulps, it breaks down into Feature “Novels,” “Novelets” (that’s how they spelled it) and Short Stories. Scanning the Table of Contents, I was surprised [...]
Forgotten Book: Black Storm by Thomas C. Hinkle
According to the first page of Black Storm, author Thomas Hinkle (1876-1949) rode the Kansas plains when covered wagons still carried men westward and remembered seeing the horse, Comanche, “only surviver [sic] of General Custer’s last battle.” He was a physician, a minister, and the writer of 23 books. Twenty-one of these titles are listed, [...]
Scholastic Book Services
Like a lot of American kids in the ‘60s and ‘70s, I cut my literary teeth on the Scholastic Book Club with its cross-genre piles of cheap but well written books, each bearing the familiar SBS logo. Titles ran the gamut from adventure to mystery, science-fiction to horror. There were quite a few [...]