Saturday Leftover Day.
Fellos Yahoo groupie Norris Burroughs asked if he remembered right that he had seen Al Williamson's work in Dell's Gunsmoke series when he was much much younger. I had a look nd found that indeed the great EC and Agent X9 artist did do a series of fillers for that title from #8 to #12. The third one was inked by Reed Crandell and by #13 the feture was taken over by Marvin Stein. Here is what I could find. Happy memories, Norris.
From #9:
From #10:
From #12:
From #13:
5 comments:
Ger, thanks for putting these up... I'll bet I enjoy looking at these as much as Norris!
A minor typo... You have Crandall on the third, rather than the second story.
I meant the third of the five Willaimson did... which is the second one here.
Nice to see these. Methinks the story from #10 is the other way around; the poses and close-up faces are so typically Crandall that I'm sure it's Williamson inking Crandall. They split up the work in the same way for some Harvey s-f shorts...these may have been produced about the same time.
Smurf... that was my first impression, too. After I read the GCD attribution, I didn't have a second look. I did just now and there is no doubt. It's Crandell on pencils and Williamson on inks.
I had a look at Have Gun, Will Travel, which Norris remembered being by Williamson as well and found that it could be by him, but the inking looked just a little bit less fine-lined. My old rule of identifycation is, if it could be someone, it usually isn't so I ooked at the GCD and they gave it to Albert Giolitti...
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