Pulp fiction magazine.
“Code of the North,” “Brothers of the Scarlet Tunic” & Other Mountie Fiction Stories. All from the Pulp fiction magazine Complete Northwest Novel Magazine, December, 1936
Complete Northwest Novel: Mountie Pulp Fiction Magazine – Harry Sinclair Drago & Other Writers
North-West Stories (later retitled North-West Romances) is remembered today as the greatest of the Mountie Pulp Fiction magazines. Especially of the heyday of the Northwestern Craze (1910’s to mid-1940’s).
Other publishers highlighted the popular genre. Many traditional Westerns contained yarns of the Northcountry: Mounties, sled dogs, wolves and the Great Northwoods. Two titles dedicated completely to the genre were Real Northwest Adventures and Complete Northwest Novel Magazine.
Here’s a look at the December 1936 issue of Complete Northwest, editor, Michael Ivan.
Cover art was by George Gross, a popular commercial artist of magazine covers in the 1930’s to paperback covers in the 80’s.
This issue featured the complete novel CODE OF THE NORTH by Harold Titus. “The wind swept in long, savage blasts, driving its cold through layers of wool, through a man’s flesh, straight into his bones…”
Harold Titus was born in Traverse City, Michigan. Known today for its freshwater beaches, vineyards and northern forests. Titus earned a living as a writer and editor of outdoor stories. And was a firm believer in Teddy Roosevelt’s style of Conservation.
Harry Sinclair Drago, author of the short story “Brothers of the Scarlet Tunic” published numerous Northwesterns and Westerns.
Drago (1888-1980) was born in White Plains, New York. He worked at a number of positions in the writing and publishing industry. These included reporter and columnist for the Toledo Bee in Toledo, Ohio. And a Hollywood scriptwriter in the 1930s.
But Drago’s best known for his historical fiction. Most of it being set in the American Southwest. His novels include OH SUZANNA, WHISPERING SAGE, BUCKSKIN AFFAIR, TRIGGER GOSPEL and DECISION AT BROKEN BUTTE. His THEIR GUNS WERE FAST was an excellent collection of short stories.
Two of his best North-West Mountie stories were the novels THE SNOW PATROL and OUT OF THE SILENT NORTH. The latter made into a feature Universal silent film in 1922. The prolific Drago also published as Bliss Lomax and Will Ermine.
The short stories “Grist” and “Footprints in the Snow” were both written by Will Jenkins. Who is remembered today mostly for his science fiction as by Murray Leinster. The Virginian Jenkins wrote some great Northwesterns, told with uncommon realism. His “The Driving Force” (Complete Northwest Magazine, July, 1938) was reprinted in Don Hutchison’s SCARLET RIDERS: Pulp Fiction Tales of the Mounties.
Two posts completed this edition: “The White River Post,” a letters from the readers section, and “Northwest Trading Post,” an editorial column.
Imagine! Being there when this Mountie Fiction Magazine first appeared on the racks. I would have snatched it up!
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Complete Northwest Novel: Mountie Pulp Fiction Magazine – Harry Sinclair Drago & Other Writers
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