FIGHT FICTION: PUGILISTIC PULP STORIES!

FIGHT FICTION: PUGILISTIC PULP STORIES!

 

PERIL PRESS 

 

VOLUME #1

 

SOCK OF AGES

FIGHT STORIES, OCTOBER, 1928
THOMAS THURSDAY

 

A fighting organist! From the Brotherhood Mission to the white glare of the prize ring! Punch for punch he gave, but the big sock came in the last frame, with the crowd on its feet and the referee in a daze. (4,000 Words)

 

SINBAD THE SAILOR

FIGHT STORIES, JANUARY, 1929
ROBERT H. H. NICHOLS

 

A fighting fool of a sailor, with a mania for airplanes and red-headed sweethearts—that was Sinbad! Dumb in many ways, perhaps, but dumb like a fox with that left hand of his! Another whirlwind of laughs and leather, featuring the great Roland Rigormortis. (6,300 Words)

 

THE EXECUTIONER

THE ALL-AMERICA SPORTS MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1937
CHARLES PIFER

 

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LITTLE BOY BLOOEY

TEN STORY SPORTS, JULY, 1937

TOM THURSDAY

Blooey Mccoy and Ape Anderson fight an epic battle in cactus gulch, New Mexico (2,200 Words)

 

FIRE FIGHTER

POPULAR SPORTS, FEBRUARY, 1938
THOMAS THURSDAY

 

When You go around picking world's champion boxers off cactus bushes, you're bound to get stuck! (7,100 Words)

 

TOMAHAWK MCCLOSKEY

THRILLING SPORTS, MARCH, 1938
THOMAS THURSDAY

 

Dan Cupid and a hash-house brunette flatten a fightin' Irish-injun for the long count! (4,900 Words)

 

VOLUME #2

 

THERE’S HICKS IN ALL TRADES

ALL SPORTS, FEBRUARY, 1940

TOM THURSDAY

 

Mike McAbner had the next lightweight champ under his wing, if only the Kid would answer the bell to fight his opponents as fast as he answered the bell to fight a fire! (5,400 Words)

 

ROMEO’S JULIET

SPORTS FICTION, FALL, 1943

TOM THURSDAY

 

You’ve heard of historic correspondences – Napoleon’s mush-notes to Josephine, Voltaire’s letters to Frederick the Great, Joe Davies’ communications to FDR. And SPORTS FICTION won’t object to releasing the following fighting correspondence to future historians ... (4,600 Words)

 

HERM THE GERM

ALL SPORTS, WINTER, 1944-45

TOM THURSDAY

 

Another hilarious fight fiasco. (5,800 Words)

 

CROOK, FINE, AND STINKER

SUPER SPORTS, JULY, 1949

TOM THURSDAY

When we hear that Felony Jones is around, it's just natural to expect a whammy artist in the background. (5,200 Words)

 

ANTS IN HIS PLANETS

THRILLING SPORTS, SUMMER, 1951

HAL K. WELLS

 

When the pretty astrologer named Abigail came along waving her horoscopes, what happened to Howitzer Hogan was unpredictable! (6,200 Words)

 

BUZZ BOMB CHAMP

SHORT STORIES, FEBRUARY, 10, 1945

JACKSON V. SCHULTZ

 

What he was contributing to the war seemed so completely futile – to him. (6,600 Words)