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.
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….
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