Wild West Weekly was a dime novel later turned pulp magazine.[1]
On October 24, 1902 Frank Tousey released his first issue of the 5-cent dime novel Wild West Weekly called "The Prince in the Saddle". Written by Frank, though said to be written by "An Old Scout", it created a story centered around the character Young Wild West, a "bright, handsome boy of eighteen with a wealth of waving chestnut hair hanging down his back".[2] West is an expert horse rider among other things.[3]
The dime novel series ran from 1902 to 1928. [4] In 1927, the novel was acquired by Street & Smith and continued to run as a pulp magazine from 1931 to 1943.[5] In 1943 the magazine went through a name change, removing the word weekly from its title and was discontinued by the company later that year. Wild West ran for a total of 822 issues before ceasing publication.
Regular writers included editor Tousey, Cornelius Shea, J. Allan Dunn, Wayne D. Overholser, Walker A. Tompkins, and Allan Vaughan Elston.[6] Wild West Weekly had covers drawn by several artists who worked for Street & Smith, including Walter M. Baumhofer and Norman Saunders.[6]
The magazine was featured in an exhibition about Native American portrayals by the University of California Bancroft Library.[7][8]
References edit
- ^ "Wild West Weekly (Western)". Comic Book Plus.
- ^ Young Wild West: the prince of the saddle. Frank Tousey.
- ^ "Young Wild West: the prince of the saddle". digital.lib.usf.edu.
- ^ "Wild West Weekly". University of South Florida Libraries Digital Collections.
- ^ "Wild West Weekly archives". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
- ^ a b Cottrill, Tim. Bookery's Guide to Pulps and Related Magazines, 1888-1969. Bookery Press, Fairborn, OH, 2005. (pp. 277-78)
- ^ "Mass Market Appeal (16 of 19)". bancroft.berkeley.edu.
- ^ "Young Wild West's Weird West Weekly, a 1915 dime novel. | jessnevins.com".
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