Thrilling Ranch Stories magazine, British Edition, price 9d. January 1951 issue, published monthly. Atlas Publishing, London. Reprinted from an American original. Cover art Kirk Wilson. These monthly magazines were chock full of serialised short stories, and Thrilling Ranch Stories began in America in 1933. Some time in the late 1940s Atlas licensed the rights for Britain, and the magazines were reproduced more or less exactly, although the covers were copied so had a coarser print screen. They followed a couple of months behind the American release.
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Thrilling Ranch Stories magazine, British Edition, price 9d. January 1951 issue, published monthly. Atlas Publishing, London. Reprinted from an American original. Cover art Kirk Wilson. These monthly magazines were chock full of serialised short stories, and Thrilling Ranch Stories began in America in 1933. Some time in the late 1940s Atlas licensed the rights for Britain, and the magazines were reproduced more or less exactly, although the covers were copied so had a coarser print screen. They followed a couple of months behind the American release. Thrilling Ranch Stories trod a clever line aiming to appeal to men and women readers, so the covers often featured pistol toting men and women, and sometimes just a woman on her own as here. Although she is tied up and helpless, often the woman saved the day. The British adverts are more male orientated, including the inevitable Mr Atlas. The paper quality is cheap newsprint inside and it does impress me that this has survived some seventy years before reaching the shelves of a nice second hand book shop in central Cardiff for a couple of pounds. But a quick look online shows hundreds of copies still in circulation, so they must have been treasured! Kirk Wilson did a lot of the cover art for this magazine, and the colours of the originals are more carefully rendered.