2-Gun Western, November 1955

About this issue

This pulp anthology contains fifteen western stories, combining contemporary action tales with reprinted classics. The new fiction includes "The Wild Time" by John Lumsden, featuring eighteen-year-old Dick Foster, a troubled youth with multiple guns who increasingly falls under the influence of the rough Noren boys; the story explores tensions between Foster's restless nature and his respectable mother. "Noon Tomorrow" by Philip Morgan depicts Mojave Jack, a hired killer forced into conflict with a small-town marshal. Other original stories include "Thou Shalt Not Kill" by Ellis Sloan, "As Fast as They Come" by Harry Harrison Kroll, "Sam Colts Killer" by Gil Paust, and "Dead Man's Hand" by Dick Baird. Reprinted classics feature works by Norman A. Fox and Gunnison Steele. The issue also includes extensive advertising for a five-volume self-study mathematics course.