This excerpt is taken from Bev's The Road To The Dark Tower:
I wonder is the artwork some of the works from the Stephen King Whispers issue?Getting Michael Whelan to illustrate the first book was a stroke of good fortune. Whelan was an award-winning illustrator who had previously created drawings for the limited edition of Firestarter.
Ads announcing the Grant edition appeared in only a few places, including volume 5 of Whispers magazine in August 1982, the Stephen King issue, which featured artwork inspired by The Gunslinger. The cover illustration was "Nort the Weedeater" by John Stewart, and six other Gunslinger-inspired Stewart works appeared in a folio section of the magazine.