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The Moon Trail Maverick

 

Reckoning Guns

 

Hot Lead!

 

A Great Day for Spicy Covers

 

Cowboy Covers- Spicy Western Stories in the 1940’s

Continuing from yesterday’s post, here are some additional covers from Spicy Western Stories, this time from the 1940’s.  It doesn’t look like the war did much to tame the magazine, but if you look closely you do see a cowboy reaching across a war bonds poster while cutting a damsel free of her bonds.

Cowboy Covers- Spicy Western Stories in the 1930's

For a while now I have been collecting images of crazy western covers, hoping to do a post on them.  I hit the treasure trove recently when I came across a site called Bondage Cover of the Day, which collects trashy covers from pulps and magazines.  You’ll see a few posts on these in the coming weeks. Let me start with a pulp magazine called Spicy Western Stories.  These covers run towards exceptionally creepy, and may dispel your notions that the Greatest Generation were an entirely wholesome bunch.