A complete issue · 100 pages · 1955
2-Gun Western, November 1955
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1955 — all 100 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 100 pages · 1955
This issue of 2-Gun Western (November 1955) contains fifteen Western stories. The featured story "The Wild Time" by John Lumsden concerns eighteen-year-old Dick Foster, who increasingly obsesses over guns despite his mother's disapproval. He visits his girlfriend Janice Wells with various firearms while a local killer named Charlie Landry reportedly rides toward their town. Sheriff Barton Keller learns this news from storekeeper Merry Mason, who worries Dick has become entangled with the Naren boys. Dick and Janice struggle with conflicting feelings as he adopts a gunslinger persona. The issue also advertises a self-instruction mathematics course by J.E. Thompson (Pratt Institute), promising to teach arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus through simplified methods for ten minutes daily. Additional stories include "Thou Shalt Not Kill," "As Fast As They Came," "Sam Colt's Killer," and "Noon Tomorrow" by various authors, collectively featuring gunfights, frontier law enforcement, and confrontations between gunfighters and lawmen.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.