
cover art by Sergio Leone

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp, on his 75th birthday, in LA
said by those around him that he never showed fear, his first choice in a fight was to calm the situation with conversation or with his fists
he was never touched by a bullet
and was never able to escape the notoriety of October 26, 1881


July 1940 issue
T.T. Flynn, “The Bookie and the Blonde” (Mr. Maddox)
Leslie T. White, “One-Way Street”
Jan Dana, “The Murder Was a Pleasure” (Acme Indemnity Op)
John K. Butler, “The Man from Alcatraz” (Steve Midnight)
Hugh B. Cave, “He Didn’t Know Nothin’“ (Officer Coffey)
better image than previously posted

1960 Simon & Schuster US hardcover, 1963 Boardman UK hardcover
cover art by Denis McLoughlin
13th in his landmark procedural series