Esquire, Volume 70, Number 5, Issue 420, November 1968

Burroughs contributes “The Coming of the Purple Better One”, pp. 89-90.

This contribution is later included in Exterminator! (1974).

Published in New York City by Esquire in November, 1968.

M&M C214.
Shoaf III.126.
Schottlaender v4.C181.

"The Coming of the Purple Better One" was also included in Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire's History of the Sixties (1969).