We're still dealing with medical issues here, but I'm trying to get things back on track as much as I can. What better way than with a rather risque cover from a Trojan Western pulp? I feel like I should know who did the lurid artwork on this SIX-GUN WESTERN cover. Joe Szokoli, mebbe? I just don't know. The lead novella by E. Hoffmann Price is actually a reprint from the January 1939 issue of THRILLING ADVENTURES. Ray Gaulden, another consistently good writer, is also on hand, along with house-name Ralph Sedgwick Douglas, Frank Morris (who might well have been Mickey Spillane), and little-known Charles Getts and John White. I hope to read another Western pulp and write an actual review of it soon.
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Szokoli was my first thought, too. The lady’s face has that ‘H.J. Ward swipe’ look that Szokoli was known for, but I haven’t yet identified which Ward original it was based on. I think I’ve found the source of the cowpoke’s face though : SPEED DETECTIVE for June ‘46. Decades later, Jim Steranko swiped the pose of that lady’s figure for one of his Shadow covers for Pyramid, too….
b.t.
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