Boy, this cover is packed with action, and I think it's a pretty good bet the stories inside are, too, since the authors include Giles A. Lutz, Joseph Chadwick, Ray Gaulden, Stephen Payne, John Prescott, and Louis L'Amour writing as Jim Mayo. I don't think that's a Norman Saunders cover, but to me it seems to show some Saunders influence.
James, there's something about that cover that makes me think it is a Saunders. Look at the woman's face, the shape of the uppermost guy's mouth.
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John
John, you're absolutely right. I should have checked the Norman Saunders website before I posted that. I didn't think the art looked quite polished enough to be his. Any time I see that much action on a pulp cover, though, he's the first one I think of. He had covers on eight different pulps dated August 1952, and they're all great. That's just amazing.
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I've owned several Saunders cover paintings over the years and this does look like his work. I'm down to one painting now that was used as a pulp cover on a western and also reused years later on an Ace Double.
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