I don't know who did the cover artwork on this issue of WESTERN FICTION MAGAZINE. There's a signature on the painting, but I can't make it out. As always, if anyone can identify the artist, I'll greatly appreciate it. But what I do know is that it's yet another appearance of our favorite Western pulp cover trio: the Stalwart Cowboy, the Angry Redhead (she's not totin' a gun in this one, but she is showing a nice amount of leg in that saddle), and the Wounded Old Geezer. Inside this issue are stories by the always dependable Ed Earl Repp (aided, perhaps, by an unknown ghost) and Orlando Rigoni, plus house-name Rex Evans, and another pulpster unknown to me, Dick Robson, who was reasonably prolific for a while, turning out two dozen stories in a short-lived career from 1937 to 1940.
4 comments:
Looks kinda Norman Saunders-y.
b.t.
It does, but it's not listed on the Saunders website as one of his covers.
Hmmm! Well, it’s hard to tell for sure because that WESTERN FICTION scan is so low-rez, but the signature in the lower right corner sure looks a lot like Saunders’ signature on the cover of the April-May 1939 MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES.
b.t.
The cowboy and the old geezer look like Saunders' work to me, the girl a lot less so, but you're right, the signature does look a lot like the one on MARVEL SCIENCE STORIES.
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