Complete Northwest Novel was a popular Mountie Pulp Fiction Magazine.
It published Harry Sinclair Drago and many other Northern Wilderness Writers.
“Code of the North,” “Brothers of the Scarlet Tunic” & Other Mountie Fiction Stories from Complete Northwest Novel Magazine, December, 1936
Complete Northwest Novel: Mountie Pulp Fiction Magazine – Harry Sinclair Drago & Other Writers
While North-West Stories (later retitled North-West Romances) is remembered today as the greatest of the Mountie Pulp Fiction magazines 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 were dedicated completely to the genre. 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 of 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, wild blasts, driving its cold through layers of wool, through a man’s flesh, straight into his bones…”
Traverse City, Michigan is known even today known for its freshwater beaches, vineyards and northern forests. Harold Titus was born there. 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 under his own name and as by Bliss Lomax and Will Ermine. Two of his best Mountie novels were THE SNOW PATROL and OUT OF THE SILENT NORTH, the latter made into a feature Universal silent film in 1922.
Will Jenkins wrote the short stories “Grist” and “Footprints in the Snow.” 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 magazine first appeared on the racks. I would have snatched it up!
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