Gunshot Western Library #24 and Gunsmoke Western Picture Library #5

Page Publications' Gunshot Western Library #24 was published c.February 1971:

This issue was recycled a short time later as Gunsmoke Western Picture Library #5:

Both covers are by Keith Chatto, and I much prefer the second to the first - not only for the return of the gleeful moustachioed figure in black, but for the bolder, inventive perspective and scratchier linework, and light caricature, compared to the blander conventional realism of the medium shot in the first issue. Or, put another way, Gunsmoke Western Picture Library #5 looks like a comic with badass outlaws, whereas Gunshot Western Library #24 looks like a boring frontier tale

I note that the first edition carries the title of the opening story on the cover, whereas the subsequent edition opts for the title of another story in the collection. If this is a consistent pattern it should help identify the first editions of these oft-recycled digest-sized comics.

The advertiser's date code on the rear cover of my copy of Gunshot Western Library #24 says PP2.7 - the rest of the year is omitted . AusReprints records the Mitchell Library Stamp 17 May 1971. The illegible writing on the cover of my copy is not much help in this regard.