Renegade 5: Macumba Killer by Ramsey Thorne

Renegade/Captain Gringo 5
Macumba Killer
by Ramsay Thorne (Lou Cameron)

Captain Gringo is hired to deal with zombie revolts on a British sugar plantation. The previous installments have a great sense of movement, with Gringo constantly on the run, but this one felt quite stationary. There's a few mild Scooby Doo reveals and not much else.

The last installment had Gringo having sex with an underage girl, and this one has him raping a woman who pissed him off. The scene was out of character and felt like it was shoehorned in. I almost get the feel Cameron is being revolting on purpose.

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Crow 3: Tears of Blood by James W. Marvin

Crow 3
Tears of Blood
by James W. Marvin

Full blown psychopath Crow is looking to make some money and is town when a prominent citizen and his poorly reputed young wife are kidnapped. Crow agrees to a bounty to rescue them with a bonus for each kidnapper he kills. Crow tracks them down, killing a few folks along the way, is captured, sleaziness ensues, he escapes, then resolves in mass violence.

Continues the pattern of well staged tactics performed by a remorseless monster with no redeeming qualities, so of course the series is a favorite of mine.

There's a weird framing device of someone telling this story years later and a few references to the Apache series shoehorned in at the beginning, neither of which have anything to do with the story.

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Bunco Brawl: Hand Four

 

Three new players ante up. Sociopathic Crow joins the buttstuff bandit Renegade and new-comer Lassiter.

The Executioner 10: Caribbean Kill by Don Pendleton

The Executioner 10
Caribbean Kill
by Don Pendleton

Mack Bolan flies straight from Las Vegas to Puerto Rico, smashes his plane into a mafia compound and hits the ground running. After some jungle combat he rescues a sex worker who ends up being a federal agent, rescues a hostage, and raids a mansion to take out the local head. Along the way he recruits a mafia pilot 'Nam veteran.

Bolan learns of a Federal Government effort to have him snuffed out. The perceived enemy also expands, to include governments and corporation who profit from organized crime.

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WWX: Tag Team Championship - Spicy Western Stories vs Rocket Stories

 

The ref declares a double count out and the belt is vacated. No winner!

WWX Tag Title: Rocket Stories v01n01

Rocket Stories v01n01
April 1953

v01n01

The Quest of Quaa by H.A. De Rosso

A man stranded on Venus after getting space sickness as a teen is recruited in a mission to discover who's been putting mind destroying Quaa in the Venusian cure-all Panaceum. With a different McGuffin this could have been a western with detective elements, riding animals in a hunt and facing savage aborigines. Without much reading to back it up, I've had a low opinion of 50s scifi fiction as being formulaic and juvenile, and stories like this haven't changed my mind.

Welcome Voyagers by Hubert J. Bernhard

Future year 1970, Americans attack a Martian envoy with missiles, but they cure a general's cancer and we all become friends.

This World is Condemned by Ward Botsford

A low-tech planet joins an interplanetary confederation by exporting stamps to philatelists. That world was not condemned.

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WWX Tag Title: Spicy Western Stories v02n03

Spicy Western Stories v02n03
July, 1937

v02n03

Sheep Hater by Clint Morgan

Dirtbag cowboy is in love with a woman who won't marry him because she's ashamed of her father. He bangs her, bangs her sister, gets caught, and is forced into marrying sis, who turns out to be a shrew. He becomes a drunkard, is framed for murder, cleared, the marriage is invalidated, and his first love evidently didn't have other options.

Rodeo Rats by Rex Norman

Contemporary crime story. A rodeo star bangs the suspect in his boss' murder, a bubble dancer used by the New York syndicates as bait in a gambling scam.

Hell in Hidden Valley by King Saxon

A wandering cowpoke stumbles across a rancher under attack.

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