Silver western

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Silver Western was a pulp novel series , between 1952 to 1992 in the Federal Republic of Germany in the magic circle publisher appeared. Started as a silver novel , the series name changed several times. It was best known as the Silver Western .

history

Volume 1-93

The series was published from 1952, initially monthly, as a silver novel. At first only detective novels appeared . Volume 6 was changed to bi-weekly publication. Hardly any new novels were published, mostly shortened loan book reprints .

From volume 27 the series appeared every week. However, it was no longer just thrillers that appeared. Volume 27 and then every second were Wild West novels , which were appropriately identified with the subtitle Wild West series . The crime novels were labeled Kriminal-Reihe . Up to volume 93, the silver novel (crime series) now alternated with the silver novel (wild west series), with the title of the crime novels from volume 72 changing to silver crime novels. Furthermore, the series was dominated by the majority of loan book reprints.

Volume 94 - end

With Volume 94 the ranks parted. The crime novels continued to run as a silver crime novel . The silver novels, which were now free of crime novels, were only renamed with Volume 270 in Silver Wild West Roman . As early as volume 100, the series appeared sporadically under the title Silver Wild West novel . The next renaming took place with Volume 495 in Silver Wild West . It was only with volume 1026 that it received the title of Silver Western , under which the series achieved its greatest fame. The number of copies of books on loan became fewer and fewer, and the silver western practically consisted only of texts newly written for the series.

Important sub-series of the Silver Western , some of which are still in great demand among collectors today, were William Tex , Tom Mix , Conny Cöll , Puma-Tom , Old Fuzzy and Rex Carter .

Trivia

The Silver Western ran until 1996 and ended with volume in 1903. This made it the longest running magazine series. It was not until the series Western bestsellers , which began as the Bastei Wildwest-Roman special edition , that the record was set twelve years later and has now reached around 2,200 editions.

Unlike Bastei Verlag and Marken Verlag , Zauberkreis did not publish a series of horror novels published in the Wild West . Within the silver western, however, the novel Frontier-Zombie (# 1737) appeared in 1987 within the sub-series Chuck Slade - which experimented with the genre of the horror western. Funny Westerns, which made it to their own series with brands with Joker Boys , appear some within the Hallelujah Fun Western sub-series .

In addition to the westerns, some adventure novels were published , e. B. by Friedrich Gerstäcker . From 1973 onwards , GF Unger , who became known primarily for his book novels in the Bastei Verlag, published a number of novels in this series, primarily loan reprints.

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