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By Robert J. Randisi

The Gunsmith Giant Books

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Cover for Trouble in Tombstone

Ex-gunfighter Dallas Stoudenmire is now heir to a Texas border town that draws the dregs of the West like flies. In El Paso, being honest is a sure way to get yourself killed. And Dallas is smart enough to know that he needs help. But riding shotgun for his friend is just the beginning for Clint Adams...The Gunsmith leaves El Paso behind and teams up with the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday in a showdown against the Wild West's most notorious killers—in a trouble spot called the O.K. Corral... Now, the classic all-action Gunsmith series explodes into even bigger action—in Clint Adams Giant Gunsmith adventure!

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CLINT ADAMS Special Giant Edition Clint Adams has had enough of being the Gunsmith. He's tired of drawing attention wherever he goes—and tired of strangers who draw on him just to make a name for themselves. So when a Boston writer offers Clint money to write his life story, he figures it's a good chance to set the record straight. But before Clint can write The Life and Times of Clint Adams , there are some questions he needs answered. What is this publisher not telling him? And why is he suddenly being followed by two men he's never seen? Come to think of it, Clint better not give up being the Gunsmith too soon... Now, the classic all-action Gunsmith series explodes into even bigger action—in Clint Adams Giant Gunsmith adventure!

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Cover for Showdown at Little Misery

GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT SHOWDOWN AT LITTLE MISERY Special Giant Edition Clint Adams doesn't ditch his friends in times of trouble. But when the friend is an up-and-coming politician named Teddy Roosevelt, the "trouble" could cost the Gunsmith his life. After foiling a murder plot against the Roosevelt family, Clint couldn't wait to get out of New York. When he finally made it to Little Missouri, he felt right at home—glad to be away from the big city—and glad to be rid of his big city friends. But his troubles are far from over. A New York dandy has turned up in the West, riding roughshod all over the Dakota territory. He claims to be a friend of the Gunsmith—and goes by the name of Roosevelt...

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT DEATH IN DODGE CITY A Gunsmith Giant Edition The greatest gunfighters of the Old West band together for justice! When it comes to loyalty, The Gunsmith is second to none. So when his longtime friend Luke Short is cheated out of his livelihood, threatened with violence, and run out of Dodge City, Clint rides into action. The tyrannical new mayor of Dodge is the man responsible, and his own brand of "law and order" holds the town in a death grip. His weapons—the law, and a lightning-quick hired gun who's just itching to take out The Gunsmith! Allied with Clint, however, are the renowned lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Together, along with a select group of Short's friends, these legends of the West are going to set things right for their friend, and clean up Dodge City once and for all!

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT BARNUM AND BULLETS Special Giant Edition Manhattan may have the greatest show on earth, but New York's never seen a performer like the Gunsmith! Clint Adams was heartbroken, but not over a woman. He was suffering because he'd had to put his horse, Duke, out to pasture. So where better to get it off his mind and have a little fun than New York City? But the Gunsmith's reputation precedes him and it's no time at all before he's roped into a job as P. T. Barnum's personal bodyguard. It seems somebody's out to get the circus king, but things may not be as simple as they look. There's also the matter of separating the master showman's humbugs and hoodwinks from the cold hard truth. In the end, Barnum has the Gunsmith so spun around he can't tell if he's drawing a bead on a wannabe killer or about to shoot himself in the foot...

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Cover for Tales From the White Elephant Saloon

GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT TALES FROM THE WHITE ELEPHANT SALOON Special Giant Edition Luke Short is a good man. He just happens to attract bad things. The latest is Longhaired Jim Courtright. He's a private eye with a public agenda—bent on forcing every business in town to pay for his protection. And now his eye's on Luke's White Elephant Saloon. But Luke doesn't like being bullied. And his good buddy Clint Adams likes it even less. In fact, when the Gunsmith gets involved, that two-gun tinhorn is going to wish he had some protection of his own...

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT THE MARSHAL OF KINGDOM A Gunsmith Giant Edition ALL THE MARSHAL'S MEN As the marshal of a town called Kingdom, Sam Lance had a good life. Until he and his new bride found themselves suddenly caught between two gunmen. A few shots fired and Lance was the only one standing. Now, five years later, Clint Adams finds the ex-marshal in Denver. He's still blaming himself for his wife's death and still nursing his wounds—by nursing a bottle. It's time to get Lance back on his feet—with a helping hand from a pretty little lass named Daphne and the Gunsmith, of course. First they get him clean; then, sober. But the best wake-up call is on its way . . . The brothers of the men Lance killed want revenge. Looks like Sam Lance is finally going to face his past—and place blame where it really belongs . . .

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT THE GHOST OF BILLY THE KID A Gunsmith Giant Edition TOWN OF THE LIVING DEAD The local gold rush is over. The threat of bandits is next to nada. And by the time Clint Adams rides through it, the pint-sized town of White Oaks is ready to settle back to normal, except for a bitter dispute between two local storekeepers. But then folks begin spotting Billy the Kid around town. Problem is, the Kid's been dead several years... Normally, Adams can smell a hoax from a mile away. But, once he's taken on as a hired gun by a storekeeper, the Gunsmith spots Billy the Kid—and would swear on a stack of bibles that the menace has come back to haunt him. Little does he know, though, that this phantom has a message for him—that, without the right friends in this town, the Gunsmith ain't got a ghost of a chance...

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT LITTLE SURESHOT AND THE WILD WEST SHOW A Gunsmith Giant Edition When his friends are in need, Clint Adams comes running. And boy, are his friends in need... Frank Butler has a problem on his hands. Turns out his wife is being stalked by an obsessed sharpshooter bent on revenge—a major problem when you're in New York City and your wife is none other than Little Sureshot, Annie Oakley. So who better than Frank's old friend, Clint Adams, to come to the rescue? Trouble is, Frank's not the only one who needs the Gunsmith. Buffalo Bill Cody's in town, and he'll do almost anything to get Clint and Annie into his flagging Wild West Show. Looks like Clint's got his hands full. Add in a shady Brooklyn detective, a pair of gorgeous vixens hot for the Gunsmith's holster, and Chief Sitting Bull himself, and you've got yourself a classic western shoot 'em up—in Manhattan...

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT DEAD WEIGHT A Gunsmith Giant Edition Clint Adams is taking a man for his last ride. He just hopes it's not also his own... Clint Adams has always been one to help a lady in need—but carrying her dead husband in a pine box? This one takes the cake. Rachel Chandler, the beautiful widow in distress, knows how to use her plentiful assets to work just about any man, but the Gunsmith is a hard nut to crack. She manages to turn his charity into a full-time job as Clint becomes a long-distance pallbearer to fulfill her husband's dying wish—to be laid to rest in West Texas. From St. Louis to the burial site, they run into a lot of mysterious people who know more about their journey than Clint does. It seems as though Rachel has a story to tell, but her lips are as tight as the coffin lid. He's trying to treat it like any other job. But is Rachel as helpless as she says? One thing the Gunsmith must make damn sure of, Texas won't be the end of his line...

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT THE KNIGHTS OF MISERY A Gunsmith Giant Edition Clint Adams is on a quest for justice— and he's rarin' to shoot some rounds into these knights... The Knights of Masonry have become known as the Knights of Misery in Utopia, Virginia, where they have a stranglehold on the town. After the mysterious disappearance of some of their agents, the Secret Service calls in Clint Adams to investigate this fraternal organization, which has been acting anything but brotherly. Despite the affections of a beautiful hotel owner and the assistance of a local lawman, Clint doesn't know who to trust. The Freemasons meet in secret, and no one knows the identity of the Grand Master, aka their ringleader. With the help of a fiery redhead and a hired gun turned friend, Clint is determined to find out what goes on behind the closed doors of the Masonic temple and to bring down these brothers once and for all...

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GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT THE MARSHAL FROM PARIS A Gunsmith Giant Edition Clint Adams and a black marshal prove that the blood of all outlaws runs red... Clint Adams pays a call on his old friend, Bass Reeves, the finest lawman in Paris, Texas, and the only black federal deputy marshal west of the Mississippi. That means daily battles with ignorance and prejudice as well as outlaws. But when Clint and Bass team up to nab a gang of black desperadoes, they will prove the hard way that justice is color-blind... This assignment is anything but routine, since one of the crooks is Bass's young cousin. When the outlaws use the young man as a pawn to ambush Bass and rob a bank in Sherman, the Gunsmith must balance mercy with some well-placed bullets...

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Cover for Andersonville Vengeance

GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT ANDERSONVILLE VENGEANCE A Gunsmith Giant Edition Clint Adams goes after a long dead enemy—who might still be alive... Commandant Henry Wirz put Clint through hell as a prisoner of war, and when the Union won, Wirz paid for his crimes with a public hanging. Or did he? Word is, the low-down scum is living in Frisco as a U.S. Senator. Now a fellow Andersonville inmate intends to get the job done right this time. There's no way Senator Winston is actually Wirz. But because Clint didn't actually see him hang, he needs to discover the truth—a truth that will have the Gunsmith risking his life for an innocent man, or seeing justice done once and for all.

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Cover for The Further Adventures of James Butler Hickok

GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JAMES BUTLER HICKOK A Gunsmith Giant Edition Clint Adams is setting the record straight and spilling his secrets... Clint Adams does not do interviews. So, when a writer from New York tracks Clint down in Denver for a story, he refuses to talk. That is, until he learns that the writer is looking to report on Clint's old friend. Wild Bill Hickok—and to paint Bill as a coward. The writer is claiming that most of the men Wild Bill killed were shot in the back, making Bill sound like some no-good snake. Clint won't stand for Bill's reputation to be dragged through the mud. He'd rather break his own rule and sit down with the writer to tell the true story, for once and for all. But to preserve the legacy of one James Butler Hickok, Clint might have to open some old wounds and share some tales he never thought he'd tell...

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Cover for The Jingle Bell Trail

The Gunsmith Giant - A Special Christmas Edition As Christmas approaches, Clint Adams is asked by a town Sheriff to help him track down three killers, so that he will be able to get home to his little boy for the holidays. Clint agrees, but things go wrong and the Gunsmith finds that he must take to the Jingle Bell Trail, not only to save Christmas for a small boy, but to rescue an entire town that is in danger of celebrating a last, deadly Christmas.

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Cover for The Independence Day Gang

GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANT THE INDEPENDENCE DAY GANG Special Giant Edition When Clint Adams rides into Temple City, Texas, it's obvious to him from the opulent decorations that the town takes its 4th of July celebration very seriously. But when he discovers that there is a gang who has come to town each of the last four Independence Days to kidnap local children, he takes it upon himself to try and keep it from happening a fifth time. However, when he fails, children are kidnapped, and he must now track them down to the gang's destination and keep them from being sold into slavery. With the help of Kit Boone, Daniel Boone's great-grandson, he must try to stop the gang while being hopelessly outnumbered. It becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse during which he and Boone must keep themselves alive as well as the captive children.

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Cover for A Gunsmith Turkey Shoot

GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! A Special Holiday Edition A GUNSMITH TURKEY SHOOT Trying to decide whether he should spend Thanksgiving alone on the trail or accept one of several invitations from friends to spend it with their family. Clint Adams rides into the town of Belle Fourche, South Dakota and finds himself roped into officiating a turkey shoot competition. Seemingly a simple task, Clint soon finds that he's been sucked into a situation that is anything but simple. Thanksgiving suddenly turns into a deadly holiday that must be survived, not celebrated.

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