{"product_id":"2940014895545","title":"The Black Mask Pulp Story Reader #3 Stories from the December, 1959 issue of FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES","description":"Nine thrilling tales of yesteryear from the December, 1959 issue of FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES magazine!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresented by Black Magazine [www.blackMaskMagazine.com] and iPulpFiction [www.iPulpFiction.com]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIFTEEN WESTERN TALES was a late invention by Popular Publications editors. It first appeared in 1941, twenty years after the early western pulps started to emerge.  It was published every other month until 1946 when it went monthly.  That means that it had a slow time picking up a strong audience during World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 1946, however,  FIFTEEN WESTERN TALES started to hit its stride, and it appeared monthly on a regular basis until 1951 when most of the pulps were dead or dying.  Unlike most pulp genres, especially the detective pulps which died out by 1953 or so, Westerns, especially romance westerns, survived into the 1950s and longer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTIN STAR\u003cbr\u003eBy George C. Appell\u003cbr\u003eWith hell at his back he rode his last law-hungry trail--the killer sheriff of Tom Daw County whose own posse answered the challenge of his flaming sixes: \"Ride with me--and die!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDIAMONDBACK\u003cbr\u003eBy Kenneth L. Sinclair\u003cbr\u003e\"Stick a badge on a skunk, Kid, and he's a lawdog for all the smell... That's somethin' you wanta learn--if you don't hanker to grow up in boothill!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKILLER'S REST\u003cbr\u003eBy George Kilrain\u003cbr\u003e \"Welcome to Eagle Rest, killer. The three R's we teach are runnin', rutin' an' a rope--and if you pass the course, why, school lets out to watch you die!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBULLET BRAG\u003cbr\u003eBy W. P. Brothers\u003cbr\u003e\"I've never lost a man,\" Jim Fleming boasted--and backed his brag with lightning sixes even when the man he hunted was--himself!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWAY OF THE GUNBORN\u003cbr\u003eBy T. C McClary\u003cbr\u003eThey still called him the Lobo Kid, and he still had a lobo's pride that brought him--snarling and hated--back to one last kill!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBEYOND BOOTHILL\u003cbr\u003eBy Philip Ketchum\u003cbr\u003eChuck Martin hated Frank Holt almost as much as he hated killing him--till he found in that flame-torn night that his sixes had bought Frank a life--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDEVIL'S DRIVE\u003cbr\u003eBy C. William Harrison\u003cbr\u003e\"You ain't gonna cheat us out of our chance to make you a hero, mister--not if we have to kill you first!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRIGGER TIME\u003cbr\u003eBy Kenneth Fowler\u003cbr\u003e\"Shoot, crawl or die, mister, you still won't sell your life cheap-- for this killing is paid for--in twenty years of hell!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGUNS OF DISHONOR\u003cbr\u003eBy William Heuman\u003cbr\u003eSome men lose their lives when the guns begin to roar--while others find their souls!","brand":"iPulpFiction.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084064604400,"sku":"2940014895545","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014895545_p0.jpg?v=1763617158","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014895545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}