Another dramatic cover by Arnold Kohn graces this issue of MAMMOTH WESTERN. The most well-known author inside is probably H.A. DeRosso, although there's also a Richard Brister story. The lead novel, "The Heiress of Copper Butte", was published under the name Guy Archette, normally a pseudonym for Ziff-Davis regular Chester S. Geier, but this one was actually written by Paul W. Fairman, then expanded and reprinted under his name in paperback at least twice, first by Handi-Books (an edition I own but haven't read) and then Lancer. Also in this issue are stories by Dupree Poe, Francis M. Deegan, Bill Kirk, W.P. Brothers, and Clint Young. I've never considered MAMMOTH WESTERN one of the top Western pulps, but there are still some good stories in its pages.
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The Lancer paperback edition features cover art by Robert Stanley, who posed himself with his beautiful wife.
Sure does. I hadn't noticed that. I wonder if he painted it for this edition, or if Lancer swiped the cover from something else.
Stanley painted a few covers for Lancer. Also Bantam and several others. Too bad he and his wife divorced.
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