Tag Archives: Jack Dempsey

Rediscovered: Like Brian Leno Needed Another John Hancock from Jack Dempsey

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Don

Our maniacal Autograph Hound pal Brian Leno got a surprise for Xmas — an item of Jack Dempsey ephemera. Let Brian explain it: “A friend of mine was at a library book sale in North Carolina and found a promotional … Continue reading →

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Remembered: 100 Years Ago Today

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Don

Yeah, you see the autographed pic of Dempsey, and your mind spins — you’re thinking it’s Autograph Hound Saturday! But it’s Thursday July 4th — and American Independence happened more than a hundred years ago, right? (That’s what I heard, anyway.) … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Brian Leno, Reporting Ringside

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Don

Whoa. Courtesy the production wizards over at The Cimmerian Press, yesterday Brian Leno popped out his second TriplePunchPack — Ringside with Robert E. Howard. Just an appetizer against the full feedbag of the book he’s working on, an in-depth look … Continue reading →

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NONPAREIL: The Robert E. Howard WORD OF THE YEAR

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Don

For some of us, Robert E. Howard is nonpareil — which my India paper copy of Webster’s Third says is “Something of unequaled excellence; a nonesuch; a paragon,” and, while you might not think of it, is a word “often … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: He Was a Contenda

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Don

Eighty-one years ago today the Texas pulpster Robert E. Howard killed himself at the age of thirty. To commemorate the date, let’s bring Brian Leno back into the ring to talk about one of Howard’s predictions on boxing, one of … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: The Black Bird Flaps Back to the Old Hood

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Don

Tuesday October 27 The Maltese Falcon returns to the hood where it was imagined, plotted and pounded into life on the typewriter keys by none other than longtime Tenderloin resident Dashiell Hammett — the 1941 film version with Bogie, of … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: “Cowboy” Dula, a Gold Watch from Dempsey, and Frazier

Posted on September 19, 2015 by Don

Our occasional Guest Blogger Brian Leno jumps swinging into Bio Month with a post about boxing. I’ve long thought that Leno would be the guy to do a history — in effect, a biography — of the Old School boxers, since … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Underworld Years

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Don

Let’s ease gently from Biography Month into LitCrit Month. . . . In the intro to their bio on Jim Tully, Bauer and Dawidziak have this statement: Frank Scully, who knew Tully better than anyone, had a warning for any … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Life of Jim Tully

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Don

If you’ve got about an hour and twenty minutes free, the above video will give you a great crash course in Jim Tully. It features cover images of his various books, lots of still photos, even film clips of the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Tad Dorgan

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Don

The other day I mentioned how I casually had looked Tad Dorgan up online and noticed his connection with boxing — “a hard-boiled cartoonist, no less,” wrote I. Hey, little did I know. A day or two later Terry Zobeck … Continue reading →

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