Another brilliant 1939 H. W. Scott for Western Story, and just about the last before Street & Smith marred the covers with a big banner at the end of the year. This issue is bookended by the opening of a Luke Short serial and the conclusion of one by Frank Richardson Pierce. In between are a novelette by Harry Sinclair Drago and short stories by B. Bristow Green, E. C. Lincoln and Tom Roan. The continuing or concluding stories are probably the best things in the book this week. You can probably find Short's in book form; good luck with the Pierce.
I had a friend, the art dealer Steve Kennedy, who used to collect the pulps for the cover art. He was a big fan of WESTERN STORY.
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