Thompson, Jim (contributor); Richard Cardiff (cover art); J. Alvin Kugelmass, Dorothy Haag, Ken Kantor, Alan Hynd, Kent Greene, Si Podolin, Wallace Liggett, et. al (contributors)
 
Saga [The Magazine of True Adventure] (Vintage adventure magazine, 1951)
 
New York: Macfadden Publications, 1951. V2 N11, Mar 1951; B/W/duochrome throughout, 100pp, perfect-bound/side-stapled. Vintage adventure magazine featuring short story by Jim Thompson about Osage Indians, titled "Two Lives of John Stink," w/ illustration by Hal McIntosh.
 
Thompson would publish his most infamous piece, "The Killer Inside Me," one year later (1952), and would subsequently enjoy success in the Paperback Original world. Other features: "The Enforcer" film ad, WWII double agents, woman hunter, jet pilots, Arcti famine, Ray Johnson art, hoodoo gold, Bruce Bairnsfather 4pp, Ezzard Charles black boxer, Grey Owl, Homer Tate, Babe Ruth ad, Bernhardt art, 
 
Very Good, spine roll, foxing, a few tiny tears and chips, still quite nice. [Book ID 125794] [Magazines]