An excellent idea this – a western in space, set on the planet Arizon! It would be easy to turn this into a series – a pastiche if you like of those 1950s/60s TV westerns we all loved- or the long-running Italian comic, Tex.
The world-building on this one is exemplary – detailed, consistent, innovative, great characters – everything that a good space opera should be. I know that Harry Harrison wrote a number of Rick Random scripts and I wonder if this is one of them, it ‘feels’ like Harry – though I believe it was more likely to be Conrad Frost?
Loved the bottom frame page 38
Link to the book:
Super Detective Library 066 - Gold Rush Planet