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Tag Archives: Tad’s blind man
Two-Gun Bob: More Raconteur
The other day I mentioned in passing some magazines I’ve been associated with over the last thirty-eight years, and to that list you’d have to add Damon Sasser’s REH: Two-Gun Raconteur — one of the earliest of “my” magazines and now certainly … Continue reading
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Tagged "Conan vs. Conantics", Brian Leno, Damon Sasser, Joe Grim, L. Sprague de Camp, Morgan Holmes, Tad Dorgan, Tad's blind man, The Dark Man
Rediscovered: Tad Dorgan for Tuxedo
Cartoonist Tad Dorgan, local San Francisco boy, seems to have been about as well known as anyone could be in the days before radio kicked in in 1925, decades before TV became standard in the American home. Check out this ad … Continue reading
Hammett: More Tad’s Blind Man
Once he’s on the trail, Terry Zobeck sticks like a bloodhound — and the Tad’s blind man bit from the Op story “It” has caught his attention. He put out a general inquiry on the Fiction Mags list, and credits fellow FictionMagateer … Continue reading
