It's not often you see the Old Geezer on a Western pulp cover without his pards, the Stalwart Cowboy and the Angry, Gun-Totin' Redhead, but here he is on this 10 STORY WESTERN MAGAZINE cover by Norman Saunders. I like the way he can shoot it out with the bad guys and continue smoking his pipe. He's a tough old bird. This is probably a pretty tough-minded issue, too, with stories by H.A. DeRosso and Jonathan Craig, along with Lee Floren, Robert Trimnell, Will Cook, Bill Burchardt, and some lesser-known Western pulpsters including Doc Winchester, a by-line that has to be a pseudonym or house-name, although it hasn't been identified as such.
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Fabulous cover! And, no bullet hole in the hat (at least we can't see one). His gun is pointed at the reader.
It’s a pretty great cover — gotta be Norman Saunders, no? In fact, that might be his signature right below the Old Geezer’s hat.
James, you really have to write a story featuring that Trio one of these days...
:)
b.t.
I thought it might be a Saunders cover, too, but it's not listed on his website.
I'm surprised I haven't already written a story with those characters. I need to check the outlines for my upcoming books and see if I can work them in somewhere. Or maybe I should just write a book around them. I had an arrow knock a guy's hat off his head in the book I'm currently writing, so I guess that counts as Injury to a Hat . . .
It is Saunders, and whoever b.t. is, they have sharp eyes to see that signature in that scan :-)
A better scan of the cover, where you can see the signature clearly, is here
I've sent David Saunders an email about this cover.
Thanks, Sai!
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