Review of Adventure – March, 1940

Inspired by a post on James Reasoner’s Rough Edges blog. Cover by Wesley Neff, interior illustrations by multiple illustrators.

Adventure, March 1940 - cover illustration by Wesley Neff

Luke Short novels as comics (FREE)

Some Luke Short novels were also published as comics by Dell Publishing. Dell also published other western comics by Max Brand and other western authors. They have been scanned by some contributors to the amazing Internet Archive.

Here are the ones that I found:

1. Brand of Empire

2. Top Gun

3. Marauder's Moon

4. Trumpets West

5. King Colt


More Western comics here, here and here.

Enjoy.

Luke Short - Movies and their sources

Many of Luke Short's books were made into movies. Most of them are good. All movies I know about which were made from his books and magazines are listed below.

Books on left, movie on right. Below the book cover, you will find the listing of the original magazine appearance, if any.

Links (where available, not all these movies are out on DVD yet) will take you to the movie's DVD page on Amazon.

1959	The Hangman
1954	Hell's Outpost
Originally appeared in Collier's magazine from 21 August 1953 to 2 October 1953
1952	Ride the Man Down
Originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post from 4 April 1942 to 16 May 1942 (7 parts)
1951	Silver City
Originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post 31 May 1947 to 5 July 1947 (6 parts)
1951	Vengeance Valley
Originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post from 3 December 1949 to 14 January 1950 (7 parts)
1950	Ambush
Originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post from 25 December 1948 to 12 February 1949 (8 parts)
1948	Blood on the Moon
Originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post from 15 March 1941 to 26 April 1941 (7 parts)
1948	Station West
Originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post from 19 October 1946 to 30 November 1946 (7 parts)
1948	Coroner Creek
Originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post from 19 May 1945 to 7/7/45 (8 part serial)
1948	Albuquerque
Originally appeared in Street and Smith’s Western Story Magazine from 18 November 1939 to 23 December 1939
1947	Ramrod
Originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post from 27 March 1943 to 8 May 1943 (7 parts)
1941	Hurry, Charlie, Hurry

Bandit Lawman - novelette by Luke Short

[This story by Luke Short appeared in Big Book Western, in the March 1937 issue. Link after the break.]

Luke Short - Western story writer

[Luke Short was a prolific writer of western stories, penning over fifty novels and hundreds of short stories. He was a good craftsman, and his stories had action, mystery and good dialog. He passed away on this day, thirty seven years ago, and i thought it would be a good thing to remember him today. More after the jump.]