tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post1634884716247917702..comments2024-03-04T14:52:40.445+02:00Comments on pulpetti: Friday's Forgotten Book: Zane Grey Western Magazine, August 1970Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-49249577784658606442011-01-20T09:45:33.148+02:002011-01-20T09:45:33.148+02:00Here's Gerald Page's comment he sent to me...Here's Gerald Page's comment he sent to me directly via e-mail. With his permission I'll post it here as well: <br /><br />In the 1940s and early 1950s, Dell published a magazine called Zane Grey's Western Magazine, with no relation of course to Margulies title of the 1960s. It was a 160 page digest, profusely illustrated, and featuring novel abridgements as the lead story, along with an assortment of new and reprinted stories. It also ran a variety of short features, illustrated features and verse (most of which seems to have been by S. Omar Barker who seems for about three decades to have had a corner on the western verse market). <br /><br />Most of the early novels were abridgements of Zane Grey novels, but when that well dried up, after an experiment with shorter Grey reprints, they abridged novels by other writers as well. Being published by Dell, a company that at the same time was one of the leading paperback publishers, they had a wealth of material to draw from.<br /> <br />The magazine was edited by Don Ward. It featured writers such as Tom Blackburn, Walker Tompkins, Frank Bonham, John Kelly and Frank Richardson Pierce -- just a sampling that's by no means comprehensive. A lot of the features seemed to be written by W.H. Hutchinson. <br /> I by no means have a comprehensive run of the magazine but the assorted issues I have suggest that it maintain a pretty high level of quality throughout it's publishing history. Ward was an exceptionally good editor. <br /><br />I suspect, however, that these days he may be best known for the handful of western stories he wrote in collaboration with Theodore Sturgeon and collected in "Sturgeon's West."Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-57272443069835149362011-01-17T10:41:33.405+02:002011-01-17T10:41:33.405+02:00Thanks for further comments, guys, nice to see som...Thanks for further comments, guys, nice to see some traffic around here. (Plus Jerry Page's e-mail directly to me.) <br /><br />The layout of the magazine seems pretty bland to me and it's actually difficult to read, since the marginals are so small. I had to bend the magazine to be able to read what was written on the left page's right column. The interior illustrations were shoddy. There's no mention of the artist anywhere.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-47676333886748506052011-01-15T23:35:48.697+02:002011-01-15T23:35:48.697+02:00Presumably, then as now subscriptions were the mon...Presumably, then as now subscriptions were the moneymakers, and Margulies had no sustained success with any title other than MIKE SHAYNE throughout the Renown years...THE MAN FROM U*N*C*L*E MAGAZINE did OK (running only about as long as the series did), but GIRL FROM, CHARLIE CHAN MYSTERY MAGAZINE, his ZGWM, and his revival of WEIRD TALES were all short-term propostions.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-87139806094455662542011-01-15T19:09:53.309+02:002011-01-15T19:09:53.309+02:00I remember seeing several issues of RANCH ROMANCES...I remember seeing several issues of RANCH ROMANCES on the stands, when it was still in its larger size. Don't think I ever saw any after it added AND ADVENTURES and shrunk to a digest. Of course I never bought any of them, being a red-blooded adolescent male. The Margulies digest I never saw was CHARLIE CHAN MYSTERY MAGAZINE. SHELL SCOTT MYSTERY MAGAZINE showed up around here now and then, MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE more often, and I bought nearly all the issues of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. MAGAZINE new off the stands.<br /><br />Now that I think about it, I believe I've read some pulp stories by Gladwell Richardson, but they certainly weren't memorable.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-68659200675778869822011-01-15T17:57:35.212+02:002011-01-15T17:57:35.212+02:00Todd: there's a short editorial addressing the...Todd: there's a short editorial addressing the bad availability of the ZG magazine at newsstands. They ask people to order the magazine via mail.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-12551497530702553722011-01-15T17:56:45.459+02:002011-01-15T17:56:45.459+02:00Okay, that's an interesting to know. The Laram...Okay, that's an interesting to know. The Laramie Nelson story sure reads like it was written by someone of a newer generation than Tom Curry. And what I've read by Matthews, he could be pretty hardboiled.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-16760321017759656282011-01-15T05:19:36.426+02:002011-01-15T05:19:36.426+02:00Curry wrote some but not all of the Buck Duane sto...Curry wrote some but not all of the Buck Duane stories that appeared in ZGWM. Edward Y. Breese wrote at least one of the Duanes. I think Pronzini and Wallmann wrote the Arizona Ames stories and Clayton Matthews wrote the Laramie Nelson stories. I'm not 100% certain, but that's the way I remember it.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-42170939087501312522011-01-14T21:36:30.314+02:002011-01-14T21:36:30.314+02:00RZG was essentially a house name, too...Leo Margul...RZG was essentially a house name, too...Leo Margulies ran his revival of ZG WESTERN pretty much along the lines of his MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE, with a number of writers ghosting the lead novelets/novellas, and attributed them to Grey Junior rather than to Davis Dresser's pseudonym (in MSMM). Curda and Ward, if those are their actual names, might've written other stories, but we haven't caught up with them yet for the FMI...you know, as a Very young kid I saw the last issues of RANCH ROMANCES AND ADVENTURES on newsstands, but don't think I ever saw ZGWM, out at about the same time...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com