Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 18, 1928

Catalog Note This February 18, 1928 issue of *Argosy All-Story Weekly* contains four ongoing serials, one complete novelette, and five short stories. The featured serial *Blue Steel* by Clay Bridger is a Western tale in three parts (Part One included here) introducing Ballou "Blue Steel" Steele, a legendary fast-draw gunslinger reluctant to use violence, whose estranged father runs the Lazy S ranch. The story opens with postmaster Dave Dibble noting Ballou's first letter to his father in a year, while discussing rising tensions between ranches—Steele's Lazy S and Tom Tolliver's Wagon Wheel—over poisoned water holes and cut fences. Other serials include Ray Cummings's science-fiction *Beyond the Stars* (Part Two) and Charles Francis Coe's *The Evil Panorama* (Part Six). The novelette is *The Perfect Scheme* by Gordon Mess. Additional contents include five short stories and poetry. The issue also features extensive classified advertising for jobs, mail-order products, and patent services.