Name: 2025 Vintage Pulp Westerns Calendar
SKU: PWS25CAL
Price: 24.95 USD
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2025 Vintage Pulp Westerns Calendar

$24.95

16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready vintage pulp Western magazine covers

The Wild West is just a wagon ride away each month with this collection of faithfully reproduced vintage pulp western fiction magazine covers from the 1930s – 1950s.

Availability: In stock

16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready vintage pulp Western magazine covers

The Wild West is just a wagon ride away each month with the Asgard Press 2025 Vintage Westerns Calendar, a collection of faithfully reproduced vintage pulp western fiction magazine covers from the 1930s – 1950s, accompanied by extended commentary. Pulp magazines featuring Wild West fiction, ghost stories and other adventurers was once an affordable form of entertainment for fans of the genre, and featured famous authors, up-and-coming writers, and unknowns alike. Pulp western magazines of this era transported readers to the wild and untamed American frontier, offering thrilling tales of cowboys, outlaws, and frontier justice. Magazines like “Thrilling Western” and “Riders of the Range” showcased gripping adventures filled with gunfights, daring escapes, and tales of honor and betrayal. These pulps captivated audiences with their vivid storytelling, capturing the spirit of the Old West and becoming a beloved source of entertainment during the Golden Age of pulp fiction. Each month features a different pulp western cover, accompanied by extended commentary with details about the issue. With its large vertical format of 11×15 inches, our wire-bound wall calendar opens to an impressive 11×30 inches. The perforated design allows for easy removal of each month’s image, making them a perfect fit for standard 11×14 inch frames. Generously sized grid spaces leave plenty of room to keep track of all your appointments, reminders, and events. Organize all your important dates while adding a touch of the Old West to your walls.

2025 16-month wall calendar – Jan 2025-April 2026 – Use this calendar into the next year with mini-grid page of the first 4 months of 2026
Features faithful reproductions of vintage pulp Western magazine covers accompanied by extended commentary each month giving more information about each image
Large format opens to 11″x30″ with spacious grid pages for at-a-glance organization of appointments and events, and includes major US holidays and moon phases
Includes 13 easy-to-remove prints that fit standard 11″x14″ frames for sustainable reuse
Decorate affordably with trendy vintage artwork and photos
Plenty of room to write in the grid spaces
Heavy, archival paper vibrantly showcases each month’s image and prevents bleed-through of pen or marker ink on grid pages
Perfect for hanging in home, office or classroom

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Weight	.75 lbs
Dimensions	11 × 15 × .25 in
ISBN	9781630368807
UPC	724638069436

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2025 Pulp Westerns Commentary

Spicy Western Stories; Cover Art: Allen Anderson; Culture Publications, June 1941.

The “spicy” pulps were very popular among audiences looking for more titillating forms of escapist fiction. Magazines from Culture Publications such as Spicy Mystery Stories and Spicy Western Stories were an evolution of the earlier “girlie” magazines like Snappy Stories, published by William Mann Clayton beginning in 1912. Clayton and other men’s magazine publishers faced pressure from civic groups to tone down their explicit content, with Clayton even being arrested in 1916 for supplying indecent material. The pulp industry’s solution to these demands was to dilute the explicit content by mixing it with other genres of pulp fiction such as horror, mystery, adventure, and westerns. Hence, the “spicy” pulps were born when publishers Harry Donenfeld and Frank Armer teamed up to form what became Culture Publications, specializing in genre fiction mixed with “girlie” content. Donenfeld is also famous for his ownership of National Periodical Publications, better known by its more recent name, DC Comics. In 1943, Culture Publications replaced the word “spicy” in their pulp titles with the less descriptive word “speed” in a bid to further stave off criticism, and possibly out of a fear of serving jail time. This name change had a rather chilling effect on sales, with only Speed Western continuing at newsstands through 1948. The cover of the June 1941 issue of Spicy Western Stories was contributed by the incomparable pulp artist Allen Anderson. The artwork depicts a saloon girl either being removed from the path between cowboy and adversary or preparing to be thrown into it. Anderson excelled at painting women in motion and, unlike many other pulp artists of the time, often presented the women on his covers as protagonists rather than damsels in distress. This is seen most often in his cover art for the science fiction pulps where women in armor and wielding swords hold their own alongside male heroes. Few of his original works survive today, but a resurging interest in vintage pulps has kept Anderson’s covers alive for a new generation of fans.

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