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Howard’s working class hero, thinly disguised once as another Irish brawler, was based on the historic heavyweight contender Sailor Tom Sharkey. Howard’s boxing stories were written in the first half of his career, between 1925 and ‘32, with most in 1929, as he was building the King Kull and Solomon Kane pulp myths. All of Howard’s boxing tales are cont…

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