Tag Archives: Tad’s blind man

Two-Gun Bob: More Raconteur

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Don

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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Rediscovered: Tad Dorgan for Tuxedo

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Don

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 →

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Hammett: More Tad’s Blind Man

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Don

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 →

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Hammett: “The Black Hat That Wasn’t There”

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Don

And Terry Zobeck is back, with more info on the Op yarn “It” — here’s Terry: Frederic Dannay reprinted “It” — which first appeared in the November 1, 1923 issue of Black Mask — in his 1951 collection Woman in the Dark.Among … Continue reading →

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