I've seen plenty of guys clench a knife between their teeth in movies and on paperback and pulp covers, but a six-gun? That's got to be more uncomfortable. This stalwart, red-shirted hero doesn't look like he's enjoying it that much. This looks like a Norman Saunders cover to me, but it's not listed on his website, so maybe not. But I like it no matter who painted it. WESTERN SHORT STORIES isn't remembered as one of the top Western pulps, but there's certainly plenty of fine writers in this issue: Peter Dawson (Jonathan Glidden), Gunnison Steele (Bennie Gardner), H.A. DeRosso, D.B. Newton, Kenneth Fowler, Rod Patterson, Raymond W. Porter, Norrell Gregory, and Mojave Lloyd. Dawson, Steele, DeRosso, and Newton are enough to make any Western pulp worth reading.
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Sure hope that six-gun didn't have a hair trigger!
The man's face and pose certainly remind me of Norman Saunders' work. But there's a signature on the lower left of the cover. It looks like Mal. Malvin Singer perhaps?
Good catch, Sai. I missed that signature. Comparing this cover to some of Singer's other covers, it certainly looks like it could be his work.
That cover is by Mat Kauten. He did some very good pulp covers as well as Sat. Eve. Post
for Jan. 1943 cover.
Thanks, Paul!
Paul's right. Mat Kauten, not Mal Singer.
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