2-Gun Western, November 1955 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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ROBERT O. ERISMAN, Editor Member, Western Writers of America co LANE, Associate + «oe ~~ BRAND NEW ACTION-PACKED THRILLERS ~% 1) THE WILD TIME . 20.0. cc ce cece ce ecees . John Lumsden They were saying that the killer would: probably ride right on through but the tough ones hoped he'd hole-up in town for a spell ..... 2) "THOU SHALT NOT KILL..." ............-... Ellis Sloan There were times, Born thought, when he was tempted to forget the words in the Good Book. When he longed to use the sixgun on his hip..... 3) AS FAST AS THEY CAME ......... .. Harry. Harrison Kroll To the raiding Indians it looked ‘Ike two old men, an old woman, a green kid and a spooked girl. They didn’t see Pappy's shootin’ arn.... 4) SAM COLT'S KILLER ........ Mipbeeteewen, wont Paust Built for the Army, taken over by the “ quastingers, the ' ‘great equalizer"’ is still knocking over everything from gangsters to grizzlies... 5) NOON TOMORROW .................6..... Philip Morgan Mojave Jack was a paid killer. A man whose gun wes for hire didn't prod a trailtown marshal into a fight ..... 6) FINAL. GURTAIN | C35 So ei ea ees L. V. Pidgeon He'd put endiess dusty miles and numberless brawling gold camps be- tween them, but it was a questicn whether Caleb Halloway could ever forget Miss Ellen O'Faye ..... : 7) DEAD MAN'S HAND ... oo. icc cece wee .. Dick Baird Whoever had picked off Shattuck was a dead ‘shot with a .30-30, and - Sheriff Jep Parnell knew that the seven gunnies siding the killer would be equally handy with sixshooters ..... BS). (LAST CARD es ia oe ee ee -.... Clayton Fox What a gun was in his hand, Grinnell was in the hand of Fate. They called him evil, from Dodge City to Death Valley, but it was a brand that doubtless should have been blotted ..... 9) ROTTEN BELLY'S SAD SIEGE ........... .. Noel M. Loomis - The fort provisioned, guns cleaned, balls poured, a guard established. And then the savage Crows came, armed to the teeth... .. 10) TWO OR THREE FUNERALS ..... Se Ewe aS Aydelotte There were no courts in No Man's Land, no law except that of the six- gun. And yet Buck Sizemore wondered if civilization hadn't begun to reach this raw frontier ....., * * ANTHOLOGY OF TIME-HONORED CLASSICS ~& & 11) A TINHORN CHOOSES HOT LEAD .......... D. B. Newton Lew Hatton had seen men bullet-blasted crumple to the dust before his sixguns, but this was one blood-hungry gent he'd have liked to lose the draw to... copyright 1941 Manvis Pub. Ine. 121 THROUGH GUNSIGHTS S detace Saas Haw. a Venn. Golondan His finger was tightening on the trigger when Rod Donnelly, who'd been | packing a gun ever since he was a kid, found out that he didn't have 4 what it took to kill a man... copyright 1$41 Manvis Pub. Ine. 13) BLOOD AND SWEAT — OR BULLETS? ....... L. P. Holmes lt was a kell of a country where a law-abiding citizen couldn't ride through without getting kis brain blasted out by a .45 slug, but Sheriff Carr couldn't challenge every sidewinder in town ¢o guns in the dust at sunset! copyright 1941 Newsstand Pub. Ine. 14) KILLER'S HERITAGE ....... oeeceeeeee.--e- Norman A. Fox Bert Freeman's blazing sixguns marked him as a bushwhacker, but they burned the proper hide with the owlhoot brond .. . copyright 19389 Western Fiction, Pub. Co. Ine. 15) HARDCASE OR COWARD? ........ ...... Gunnison Steele The years had hardened Kent Varing, turned him into a bitter cold-eyed man whose law Icy in his lighining-fast guns. No mere slip of a girl could turn him back from the dark trails now . . copyright 1939 Manvis Pub. Ine. Nass 2:GUN WESTERN published quarterly by Stadium Publishing Corporation.. Office of publication, 655 Madison Ave., New York 21, N.Y. Entered-as second class matter at the Post Office at New York, N.Y. Additional entry at Holyoke, Mass. Contents copyrighted 1955 by Stadium Publishing Corporation. Vol. 2 No. 5 Nov. 1955 issue. 25¢ per copy; subscription price, 12 issues for $3.25 including. postage. No similarity is intended between actual names, persons, characters, institutions and those used in stories and semi- fiction articles, and any such similarity that may exist is purely coincidental, Not responsible for un- aolicited manuscripts, Printed in the U. S. A. 3 : CoOmMmicbooksnco