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"The Brute Eternal" by Christopher Gruber
(Introduction)
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Fists of Iron
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"The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux"
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"Double Cross"
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"The Weeping Willow"
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"The Right Hook"
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"The Voice of Doom"
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"Crowd-Horror"
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"Iron Men"
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"The Mark of a Bloody Hand"
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"They Always Come Back"
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"The Trail of the Snake"
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Poems
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"Kid Lavigne is Dead"
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"Aw Come on and Fight!"
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"The Cooling of Spike McRue"
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"Fables for Little Folks"
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"The Champ"
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"Slugger’s Vow"
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"In the Ring"
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Untitled ("And Dempsey climbed into
the ring")
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Untitled ("They matched me up that night")
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"Down the Ages"
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"John L. Sullivan"
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"Jack Dempsey"
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Untitled ("We are the duckers of crosses")
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Untitled ("All the crowd")
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"When you Were a Set-up and I Was a Ham"
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Appendix 1: early tales, variants and fragments
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"The Spirit of Brian Boru"
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"A Man of Peace"
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"The Atavist" (unfinished)
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"Cupid vs. Pollux"
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"The Spirit of Tom Molyneaux" (alternate
version)
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"Untitled fragment ("I had just hung...")
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"The Ferocious Ape" (fragment)
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Untitled fragment ("Spike Morissey…")
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Untitled fragment ("The tale has always
been…")
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"The Ghost Behind the Gloves" (fragment)
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"Lobo Volante" (fragment)
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"Night Encounter" (incomplete)
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"The Folly of Conceit" (unfinished)
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"Iron Men" (first version)
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Appendix 2: Articles
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"Dula Due to be Champion"
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"The Punch"
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"Men of Iron"
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Appendix 3: Odds and Ends
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Untitled document ("The round started slow
. . .")
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"Jeffries Versus Dempsey"
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"Misto Dempsey"
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"The Funniest Bout"
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Boxing material from Howard’s self-published
The Right Hook (3 issues, 1925)
"The Great Munney Ring"
"Sporting Page"
Untitled "Munn! Munn! Munn! . . ."
Untitled "I progress slowly . . ."
Untitled "I like John L. Sullivan"
"Ringside Tales"
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Appendix 4: "The Lord of the Ring" (part
1), by Patrice Louinet
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Notes
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Edited by Patrice Louinet,
Christopher Gruber, and Mark Finn
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First appearance:
"Iron Men" (first version)
Untitled ("The round started slow . . .)
Untitled fragment ("Spike Morissey…")
Untitled fragment ("The tale has always been . . .")
"Lobo Volante" (fragment)
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First in a series of four books.
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Limited edition of 200 copies
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