I don't own this issue. The scan is from the Fictionmags Index. I don't know who painted this WESTERN STORY cover, but it's very evocative and I like it. It looks like there might be a little bit of a signature in the bottom right but not enough to make out. There's a strong line-up of authors inside: Max Brand (with part of a Silvertip serial; I'm sure it was published as a novel with a different title, but I don't know which one), Francis Thayer Hobson as Peter Field (with the final part of the serialization of OUTLAWS THREE, the first Powder Valley novel; it was published in hardback by William Morrow in January 1934, and I didn't know it had been serialized previously; another note of interest is that Hobson's wife, Laura Z. Hobson, was an uncredited collaborator on this novel, as well as the next one in the series, GRINGO GUNS), the great W.C. Tuttle, WESTERN STORY regular contributor Robert Ormond Case, and forgotten pulpsters Joseph F. Hook, Carlos St. Clair (really Carolyn St. Clair King), and Stanley Hofflund. Appears to be an issue well worth reading.
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Don't have a copy at hand; the cover looks like the work of Sidney Riesenberg.
Riesenberg was my first thought, too. He did a number of covers for WESTERN STORY during this era.
In "Max Brand, The Man & His Work" by Darrell Coleman Richardson, Fantasy Publications. Co. 1952, I read that Max Brand's Novel
"Mountain Riders", 1946 was first serialized in 4 instalments as "Blue Water Bad Man" in Western Story Dec. 16, 1933-Jan 6, 1934
Best,
Tiziano Agnelli
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