Books published by publisher Western Publishing Co, Inc.

Lancer; Comic Book Edition of Classic American Westerns TV Series (Annotated) contains 36 scanned color photos of original comic book with additional background about this classic Western story.Lancer is a 1968-1970 Western television series on CBS, which starred Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC.Stacy appears as half-Mexican gunslinger Johnny Madrid Lancer. Duggan plays Murdoch Lancer, a less wholly admirable patriarch than Lorne Greene's Ben Cartwright of Bonanza. Wayne Maunder, formerly Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer on the short-lived ABC series Custer, was cast as Scott Lancer, the educated older son (though he is younger than Stacy) and a veteran of the Union Army, in contrast to Stacy's role of former gunslinger. Paul Brinegar, formerly the cook Wishbone on CBS's Rawhide, also appeared as Jelly Hoskins, a series regular.Guest stars included Joe Don Baker, Ellen Corby, Jack Elam, Sam Elliott, Bruce Dern, Ron Howard, Cloris Leachman, George Macready, Scott Marlowe, Warren Oates, Stefanie Powers, and Dub Taylor. Frank McHugh appeared as Charlie Wingate in a 1969 episode entitled "The Fix-It Man", the handyman role that he had also played in the 1964-1965 season on the ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show.Lancer lasted for fifty-one hour-long episodes shot in color. The program was rerun on CBS during the summer of 1971. The episode entitled "Zee" with Stefanie Powers earned scriptwriter Andy Lewis the Western Writers of America "Spur Award", the first ever designated for a television script.

The Cold Poker Gang consists of a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives getting together once a week to play cards and work to solve cold cases.Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers stand at an unmarked grave in the desert, about ready to close a thirty-year-old cold case of a missing woman.But what appears from that grave keeps their case very much open, and shines a light on many other cold cases.Another twisted mystery that only the Cold Poker Gang can solve.“…Dean Wesley Smith draws a royal straight flush by making the hand he deals readers seem possible with this exhilarating political poker thriller…”—Midwest Book Review on Dead Money

Sandy Hunter kissed her husband goodbye one normal morning on her way to work. She never made it. Last seen walking alone into a Las Vegas hotel room, she never came out and no sign of her remained in that room.Her missing person’s case went cold for fourteen years until retired Las Vegas detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson, members of the Cold Poker Gang, decided to investigate how a woman could vanish from a locked hotel room without a trace.Another twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery from the prolific mind of USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. If you love puzzle mystery novels, grab a Cold Poker Gang mystery novel.“…Dean Wesley Smith draws a royal straight flush by making the hand he deals readers seem possible with this exhilarating political poker thriller…”—Midwest Book Review on Dead Money

This adaptation to the animated screen of the beloved children's classic, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, has been one of the most ambitious projects of the Walt Disney Studio. The masterful blending of the familiar charm of the masterful blending of the familiar charm of the original Tenniel illustrations with Typical Disney whimsy is the culmination of many years of devoted effort. Alice, we feel confident, will win many new admirers in this handsome and lively setting. First published in 1951.