Collier's March 1940

Condition: Fine

Cover Artist: Vance Locke

Authors: Price Day; Luke Short (After reading Western pulp magazines and trying to escape unemployment, Frederick Dilley Glidden began to write Western fiction. He sold his first short story and novel in 1935 under the pen name of Luke Short (which was also the name of a famous gunslinger in the Old West, although it's unclear if he was aware of that when he assumed the pen name.) His apprenticeship in the pulps was comparatively brief. In 1938 he sold a short story, The Warning, to Collier's and in 1941 he sold his novel Blood on the Moon, aka Gunman's Chance to The Saturday Evening Post.); Don Tracy; Hugh Wiley; Duane Decker; Octavus Roy Cohen

Interior Artist: Joe Whitecomb; John Gannam; Johm Holmgren; Elmore Brown; George DeZayas; James Bamaurick

Features: Fiction: FICTION: "The Doctor Keeps a Promise," is by Luke Short, actually Frederick Dilley Glidden. After reading Western pulp magazines and trying to escape unemployment, Glidden began to write Western fiction. He sold his first short story and novel in 1935 under the pen name of Luke Short (which was also the name of a famous gunslinger in the Old West, although it's unclear if he was aware of that when he assumed the pen name.) His apprenticeship in the pulps was comparatively brief. In 1938 he sold a short story, The Warning, to Collier's and in 1941 he sold his novel Blood on the Moon, aka Gunman's Chance to The Saturday Evening Post. Also: Octavus Roy Cohen, Romance in Crimson (Fifth of 10 parts);AD: Fold-out page reveals four page add for Philco Refrigerator, along witht he usual car, booze and cigarettes.